Plymouth Teacher Could Face Discipline For Bringing BB Gun To Class

The Detroit News ^ | January 31, 2003 | Maureen Feighan / The Detroit News

[an amused spectator]

PLYMOUTH -- A longtime Plymouth High School physics teacher could face disciplinary action after he brought a BB gun to school for an experiment Thursday and an alarmed parent notified police, forcing a lockdown of the school campus for at least an hour...

[an amused spectator]

The horror.

I don't believe that I detected any hint that the reporter thought that "the authorities" might be over-reacting.

Break out the smelling salts for Aunt Martha, Chief of Police.

And furthermore - I wonder if this misguided teacher knew that he might have shot his eye out?

[pgyanke]

YGTBSM

[stayathomemom]

I know something about this. I talked with a friend whose daughter was in the classroom when the swat team stormed the classroom, with guns drawn, I am told. One of the girls broke into tears, but I guess the guys thought it was pretty cool. Half the class was already there and the unloaded bb gun had already been locked in a cupboard. This school is a new one located on a campus which it shares with two other high schools. The teacher had had his classroom relocated to the new school from one of the others where he had had the gun safely stored with permission for 20 years or so. For the move, he had been asked to take his things home over the summer. He was just now returning the gun which he was going to use for a demonstration. Too bad he didn't have security escort him into the building. Because of this, my daughter's medieval banquet in one of the other high schools was only attended by half of her class.

[davisfh]

I'm not amused, Amused. In fact, I may move to another planet to try and get away from this kind of silly @$$ed crap.

I would imagine that he was going to do a demo concerning ballistics. So much for elementary physics.

[quack]

Only if it was a "Red Ryder" BB gun.....with a compass in the stock,of course....

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Just be glad it wasn't a drawing of a BB gun. That would have gotten plenty of shrieks of terror out of the scared little girly men running the school.

[stayathomemom]

Another thread about this with a Detroit Free Press source has the facts a little better.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Because of this, my daughter's medieval banquet in one of the other high schools was only attended by half of her class.

This sounds like a job for Lawyerscum Man. I think the going rate for this kind of insensitivity by the SWAT team, and resulting emotional scarring to your daughter is in the two to three million dollar range.

[stayathomemom]

hummm

[AK2KX]

Only if it was a "Red Ryder" BB gun.....

It WAS a Red Ryder -- I saw it in the local TV news hysteria-fest last night. They had the evil gun doing the perp-walk on the police table reserved for drugs, guns and cash - all laid out for the cameras.

[quack]

sigh....... It's getting so you can't even make jokes anymore.The truth tends to be funnier(?) these days.

[stayathomemom]

He was back in class today. No charges. The gun was the school's property.