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Full title: Zero Tolerance: Chicago School Officials Suspend 11-Year-Old Boy Under ‘Dangerous Weapons’ Policy for Voluntarily Turning in Non-Firing Toy Gun
1 posted on 02/11/2014 6:47:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

we surely live in ridiculous times, surrounded it seems by complete idiots


2 posted on 02/11/2014 6:53:40 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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but getting tossed out of Chicago public school may be the kid’s first real break in his life....


3 posted on 02/11/2014 6:54:28 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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Finally hit me: such school administrators are BULLIES.

On the vaguest pretext they become utterly abusive to exert their power and establish dominance - and nobody dares call them on it, lest become their next victim. Bullies.


4 posted on 02/11/2014 6:56:20 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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None of this will change until lawsuits are brought against the abusive administrators which isnt likely due to the extreme levels of intimidation and leverage avail to use against the parents.

The admin are rewarded every time this sort of thing makes headlines....

enforcing the cow effect


5 posted on 02/11/2014 6:57:35 PM PST by Therapsid
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If they had this policy when I was 11, you better believe I’d take full advantage of it!


6 posted on 02/11/2014 7:02:21 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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Have recently retire from several decades of public school teaching, I would like to say that when administrators do really stupid thing like that, it hurts all of those who teach. Unfortunately, administrators, doing stupid things that hurt education, are not nearly rare enough.


7 posted on 02/11/2014 7:02:48 PM PST by lrdg
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8 yrs ago I was the plaintiff in an auto accident case and had a hearing at the county court house in Washington, PA. Upon entering I saw the metal detector and realized that I still had my pistol in my belt holster. Notified the deputy. He told me to go put it in my car.


8 posted on 02/11/2014 7:02:54 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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Its a Government school in a Government city. I would expect nothing less from them. I have nothing but sympathy for any child in a government school especially in a Dem controlled city............


9 posted on 02/11/2014 7:03:31 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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It’s tough actions like this that keeps the chicago murder rate so low. I guess.


11 posted on 02/11/2014 7:07:46 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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Number One killer of school children everywhere.

(according to a liberal screwell administrator.)

12 posted on 02/11/2014 7:11:41 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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Should have been suspended for his silly name.


13 posted on 02/11/2014 7:15:13 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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When you abandon God, you go insane.


16 posted on 02/11/2014 7:22:02 PM PST by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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Does this mean that they are going to start suspending Teachers? Because some of them are really dangerous weapons.


17 posted on 02/11/2014 7:33:08 PM PST by MA~Bear
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This nation is insane.


19 posted on 02/11/2014 7:42:49 PM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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This little shit needs to be beaten and locked in a closet! </progressive>


20 posted on 02/11/2014 7:50:57 PM PST by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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Hopefully he learned a lesson. Today’s governmental authorities cannot be trusted. They are not our friends.


21 posted on 02/11/2014 7:52:17 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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Do you have to pass some sort of stupid test to become a school administrator?
Or are they deliberately making up impossible rules to demoralize our children?

25 posted on 02/11/2014 8:20:05 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. “In the process, school officials sent a strong, chilling message to this child and his classmates that they have no rights in the American police state.”

That was the 'message' the school system wanted sent...

26 posted on 02/11/2014 8:23:27 PM PST by GOPJ ("Hillary Clinton says (the) press has big egos and no brains". - Tony Blair - May 19, 1993)
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Being punished for voluntarily turning in the toy gun will teach him a life lesson that no good deed goes unpunished—so don’t expect him ever again to do a good deed. From now on, he will take a cynical view of life.


27 posted on 02/11/2014 8:37:25 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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A toy plastic gun is more dangerous than a sharp pencil?


31 posted on 02/12/2014 2:32:05 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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