Posted on 03/25/2017 7:15:43 AM PDT by Zakeet
An Illinois mom behind a viral Facebook post spoke to Fox 2/News 11 Wednesday.
Her son, Hunter, 4, has been suspended from his preschool for bringing a shell casing from a fired bullet to school.
He'd been at the preschool for about a year, she said, and now was in tears.
Neither she nor Hunter's dad knew it, but he found something he thought was pretty neat and he took it to school Tuesday to show his friends.
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Well....when I was escorted to the office for a sit down. I was handed a tiny .22 empty brass casing. Not a "shotgun bullet". He found it on the ground, expelled from a 22 Rifle over the weekend, while Hunter was target practicing with his Police Officer Grandpa. He was so excited, and snuck it to school to show his friends. We had no idea about it.
I was handed a piece of paper. No words, just eyebrows raised in disgust at my son, explaining that his behavior warranted a 7 school day suspension. Which I still was expected to pay tuition for, of course. And a threat that if his enthusiasm for guns continued, he'd be permanently expelled.
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Just as bad as Minnestoopid. The mere mention of the word g-u-n sends people into vapors, clutching pearls, falling on the fainting couch, or running to their “safe space”.
If a spent 22 shell is a weapon, then a sharpened crayon is a weapon.
A .22 rim fire casing apparently. This is what happens when you send the ignorant masses to college and tell them they are "educated" because they get a degree in English, Journalism, or X-studies. They despise those who do not have a college degree, but do not realize they are actually idiots themselves and a cracker-jack box degree won't change that. It reminds me of the Soviet Union.
I’d call that a “punkin’ ball.”
Good question.
We used to like to collect bullet casings to use as whistles. And glass bottles, too.
This all looks like a classic case of educated idiots. Where is dad in all of this?
“That’s a pretty damn beefy strike for a 22 rimfire. Almost to the point of overstrike, IMO. I’d check the protrusion. :0)”
That cartridge was disassembled, then fired empty.
[[Today it would probably result in a felony record and suspension or expulsion.]]
Maybe even life in prison- meanwhile illegals rape a 14 year old girl and the liberals yawn and threaten anyone who blames illegal immigration for allowing it to happen
lol
That may well be. Did anything that went with the picture actually say that?
Indeed. Makes one think the Crocodile Dundee solution is the only way to be sure.
the problem is the damned political correctness- the school systems are so afraid of being sued that they have this ridiculous ‘zero tolerance’ policy- a policy so moronic that a child chewing a poptart into an “L” shape gets suspended because it ‘resembled a gun’, and a young boy kissing a girl innocently is seen as ‘sexual harassment’ now, and the police called- instead of simply taking the child aside and explaining RATIONALLY that it’s not a good idea-
People suing everyone over everything has brought this ridiculous culture on us-
Wow.
When I was in school I built a fully functional 1/3 scale replica of a Civil War field cannon in metal shop - and fired it.
I got an award for it, not a suspension.
Times have sure changed
Slug
“That may well be. Did anything that went with the picture actually say that?”
I don’t know. The crimp also did not get flattened out as it would have if it were loaded with powder and a shell.
Good to know.. Don’t send him back.
“shell” = “bullet”. My bad.
I don’t have much occasion to do what you suggest. But I will take your word for it. All I see under what can be seen in the picture, the strike is too deep. I even think I see a case rupture.
One thing that might confirm what you say is there isn’t any discoloration on the case I can see. Thank you.
The only threat this item offers is the danger that someone might swallow it. I doubt that any other child at the school would have associated it with a gun.
Why is it so difficult to get reasonable decisions from school administrators? Because the average SAT/ACT scores in the schools of education at almost any college/university are some of the lowest on the campuses. Journalism is the lowest.
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