Posted on 02/02/2013 2:03:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yet another student has been suspended for having something that represents a gun, but isn’t actually anything like a real gun.
This time, Daniel McClaine, Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School in Tan Valley, Arizona, made the mistake of setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his school-issued computer.
The picture shows an AK-47 lying on a flag, reports KNXV-TV. The gun isn’t his, McClaine assured the ABC affiliate in Phoenix. He found it on the Internet and liked it, partly because he is interested in serving in the military after graduation.
A teacher reportedly ratted McClaine out after noticing the Soviet-era rifle on the computer. McClaine originally received a three-day suspension.
After McClaine’s father contacted the local press, Florence Unified School District officials suddenly decided that the younger McClaine could return to school on Monday.
District policy states that students cannot use school-issued laptops to send or display “offensive messages or pictures,” explains KNXV. Students also cannot use them to produce, retrieve, send or forward images that are considered “harassing, threatening or illegal.”
It’s not clear who determines what is “offensive” or “threatening,” or the basis upon which the determination was made in this case.
McClaine maintained that he read the guidelines but did not think that a picture of a gun could threaten or offend anyone.
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In other words, this is an “End of the Road” type of town. There is no where else to go.
If I were a student, I would use an image of two men kissing and heavily petting each other- as my screen saver.
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And make sure everyone saw it.
What are they going to say? Would they dare say it was offensive?
And they certainly should. There are two type of teachers; union thugs and cowards that won't stand up to union thugs.
Florence, eh? Yes, I do believe it is in their school district.
But the mailing address should be in San Tan Valley, AZ, 85143. It’s about 400 yards from my son’s (former) house on Ganzel/Rittenhouse Rd.
Just sayin’. Second instance of shoddy reporting I’ve seen in the Phoenix area this week.
“Another appalling thought crime! We need new laws to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again! How many more children are going to be exposed to this idea before we do something! The time is now! Our kids are too important!”
Good point!!! So are they investigating who put the thought of gun violence in his head? How did he find that picture on the Internet, and what is being done about the person posting it? Did that person not know that the picture could be accessed by a MINOR?
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