He was wondering if he could have the remainder in the box back...
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.
He was wondering if he could have the remainder in the box back...
Heh. I saw this story and thought of D-Day riding the bike in the door and up the staircase at Delta House.
I bet their collective heads would have exploded if she had written "There are ALWAYS consequences since God is always watching."
School administrators that in their childhood didn't get a pony, didn't get invited to somebody's birthday party, didn't get any Christmas gifts because of their religion, or got picked on for being gay. This is their time to strike back.
Maybe he should have placed a Condom on the Horse’s ear and said he was practicing safe horsing.
All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old,
But there’s no England now.
All the wars that were won and lost
Somehow don’t seem to matter very much anymore.
Hamilton. Home of George Patton(father and son). They must be spinning in their graves.......
How many students are allowed to drive 2,000 pound automobiles in the school parking lot while blasting the stereo and texting? And they say one kid on a horse is dangerous?
Besides, horseback is a legitimate mode of transportation. There’s nothing illegal about riding a horse to school on the shoulder of the public road (unless it’s an interstate).
Public schools are gulags. While they are out in the parking lot going apoplectic students are in the hallways beating the crap out of each other and poking people with pencils. Most school administrators are frustrated tyrants.
We just had a parade in our town, with many dozens (perhaps even hundreds) of horses. Thousands of spectators, no barriers between the parade and spectators. Must have been very dangerous.
If he put a condom on the horse do you think the School would have been o.k. with it.
> Government schools are a fascist gulag.
Agree completely.
That’s why we homeschool our nine children.
Nine children? A mighty man indeed ;-)
> if the horse had been wearing a condom there wouldn’t
> have been any issues.
It might have given the school administration pause. After all, if the horse was the young man’s sex partner, that might have made a difference to the typical Massachusetts government school administration.
Does he look like Matthew Broderick?
The “wrong” answer was “Mass Murder”. Even if you are in teh biotech specialty program and the school sent you to the FBI to learn about serial killers and you are studying to be a forensic scientist and solve mass murders.
What if she had answered "smoke a cigarette?"
The principal would be seeking the death penalty.
Losers.
Here in Philadelphia a kid rides his horse to and from school everyday.
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