Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate ‘disappear’ with ‘Lord of the Rings’ sorcery

NY Daily News ^ | 1-31-15 | Nicole Hensley

[smokingfrog]

The family moved to the Kermit Independent School District only six months ago, but it’s been nothing but headaches for Aiden. He’s already been suspended three times this school year.

[smokingfrog]

Funny, he doesn’t look like a trouble-maker....

[GeronL]

lol

Using sorcery in school is not allowed. lol

[marron]

The people staffing this school system are evidently too stupid to trust with anyone’s children.

Get your kids out of public school. Someday we may manage to reform them, but your kids only have now.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Using sorcery in school is not allowed. lol

And, that only IF (a big IF) he could find a Great Ring. Doesn't anybody read anymore?

[smokingfrog]

... the principal said threats to another child’s safety would not be tolerated – whether magical or not. Principal Roxanne Greer declined to comment on the matter.

“All student stuff is confidential,” Greer said. She referred a call from the Odessa American to Kermit ISD Superintendent Bill Boyd, who did not return a phone call.

[rey]

I can make the faculty disappear with the abolition of the teacher’s union.

[Olog-hai]

That’s OK. Even Saruman in the books called himself “Saruman Ring-Maker”, having a conceit that he could make a ring of power.

[House Atreides]

Goodness....look at his picture. From the look on that demonic face he’s about to make that infant disappear!

[KC_Lion]

There are MANY magic rings in the worlds (Bilbo Baggins) and NONE of them should be used lightly >:(

[mylife]

Suspended twice for calling a black kid black?

[Carriage Hill]

I’d give him $100 if he could make 0buumer-&-His-Regime-From-Hell disappear.

[DJ MacWoW]

Imagination in public school is not allowed. You WILL conform!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Zero tolerance” is all about manufacturing reasons to sanction white kids because it’s not fair that black kids do most of the bad things.

[FreedomGuru]

If Lord of the Rings tricks don't work try this:

[Cowboy Bob]

First sign of trouble: The town is named after a frog...

[mylife]

♫ Roxanne, You don't have to put out the red light..♪ Sell your head for money ♪ you don;t care if it's wrong or right

[mylife]

LOL!!

[Terry L Smith]

Let’s turn this around.

The teacher, by accepting the statement of the kid as fact, that ‘a ring’ could harm another child, also accepted the premise of that ring being a magic ring, thereby a silent acknowledgement of the use of ‘magick’, (notice the difference in spelling), and therefore, owns knowledge of religious practices scorned by a large segment of the American population.

[smokingfrog]

I think that’s a big part of it. Also, many teachers and administrators lack basic common sense.