Posted on 11/01/2010 10:22:01 AM PDT by rawhide
HAMILTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A teen's spirit week stunt has landed him in hot water.
Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School Senior Dan Depaolis, dressed in medieval garb, rode a horse into the school's parking lot as part of spirit week.
What he, and his parents, thought was a good-natured stunt, the school deemed dangerous. Depaolis was suspended from school for two days.
The vice principal allegedly suspended the 17-year-old even after the boy’s father explained that the horse was brought in on a trailer and that no one was in danger.
The father tells FOX25 the school compared the stunt to bringing a “loaded firearm” to school and that he and his wife were shocked to hear about the suspension, saying that the 1100-pound horse, named Pierre, would never hurt a fly.
The school would not comment, saying that they do not talk about any aspect of a student discipline.
The family says they plan to contest the suspension.
Idiots.
If Paul Revere were to do that today, the police would arreste him, claiming he was creating a public disturbance!
Dang teenagers, always horsen around....
Must be. There seems to be a great many asses on them.
If the horse had just been GAY....
You are all missing the point. It isn’t a live animal or deadly weapon. It is the fact that he dressed in medieval garb, like a CRUSADER. He might have offended some Moslems.
You would die if you lived down south. Senior week down here is nuts.....riding a horse to school would be considered tame.
I can't believe you (you!) typed that.
Most likely, this was all about the liability.
So, on one hand, the student can have a little fun. On the other hand, some other student starts having a sneezing attack, decides they are allergic to horses, and sues the school. Terrified of lawsuits, the school district agrees to settle for $75,000, instead of going to trial, and fires the principal.
Some lawyer gets $70,000 of the settlement, and every student has to take a mandatory class in “why horses are bad.”
The words “fun” and “school” are no longer found in the same sentence, unless a lawsuit is involved. And you know who to blame.
If a school committee were asked why deer, cows and horses all eat the same thing yet produce different droppings. I bet you would find out that they don’t know sh#t.
Golly, look at the picture.
Loopy leftwing posters at the fox site are attempting to insist that it wasn’t really about the horse as the school told the young man, but about the sword - only, as we see - there was no sword.
Maybe they meant the spoon?
no, wait, there is no spoon.
No, I don't agree. The only reason to ~ask~ is if you think there might be something wrong with it. I'm pretty sure it never would have occurred to me to ask permission for something so completely harmless.
You’re supposed to ping people when you mention them...
How’s Wilbur these days? I had a boyhood crush on his wife back then!
I opened thread expecting a Tiajauna Donkey Show story. Fail.
The kid was just trying to bring the horse’s head count and the horse’s ass count a bit closer to parity, percentage wise.
He should tell them he is a recent convert to the Amish lifestyle, They would have to acquit him on the religious freedom grounds.
He still can’t beat me at chess...
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