Boy Suspended for Pointing Finger Like Gun

Newser ^ | 3/4/14 | Kate Seamons

[Impala64ssa]

America's kids have been suspended for pretending that pencils were guns, but an Ohio school may have topped that. A 10-year-old student at a Columbus elementary school was handed a three-day suspension for making a finger gun and pretending to shoot a classmate. The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch. Devonshire Alternative Elementary School's principal says students have been frequently told not to play pretend gun games, with a district rep saying kids were warned consequences would follow.

Those consequences hit hard last week for fifth-grader Nathan Entingh, who says he was "just playing around"; the rep said Nathan pretended to shoot another student "kind of execution style" in the head. And the "victim" didn't even see the mock execution, which was instead spotted by a teacher. Nathan's dad seems dumbfounded: "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger." (Almost exactly a year ago, a Georgia teacher was suspended over a finger gun of his own.)

[Darksheare]

I’m thinking on making it a teeshirt.

[Monkey Face]

And said T-shirt will say....???

[Tax-chick]

I had to suspend Elen today for pointing her finger at me and saying “Pow!”

[Monkey Face]

Oops. Sorry. I missed “IT”

[Monkey Face]

Good job, Mom!

What was Elen THINKING???

[Darksheare]

Suspend?
How long has she been hanging from the ceiling?

[Darksheare]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu5A3HV0qKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtbdw8IxEg

[Tax-chick]

She was annoyed because I said to turn the sound down on her iPod.

[Darksheare]

Well, she could have the auditory acuity of a twenty year artillery veteran.

[Dead Corpse]

I hate weights too.. That’s why four days a week I head to the gym and make them defy gravity and their own natural laziness.

[NoCmpromiz]

some of the looking a little darkish.

No offense, Darks!

Well..

He has always been a bit cloudy...

[Darksheare]

Daylight.. it hurts usssss.

[Monkey Face]

She needs to learn respect for others who are a little older and a LOT wiser. Shame on her for being so disrespectful. She IS at “that age,” you know.

And some kids are easier to coax into adulthood than others.

Hang in there, Mom!

[Monkey Face]

I wish I had your incentive...

[Darksheare]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLW57EiVAY

[TheOldLady]

Well..

He has always been a bit cloudy...

Nah, Darks is a very well-defined, good-looking young man.

...when he isn't fighting off Cthulhu. I guess he gets a little ethereal then...

[Monkey Face]

Anyone can say anything they want about Darks, but he is my hero and I will wade in and begin brandishing ‘splody things in his defense that would make him proud. He defended me on FR WAY BACK when I first quit lurking and began posting.

I envy his parents and his sibs because they know him as I never will.

(Though you can’t see it, Darks, I just saluted you.)

[Darksheare]

LOOL, no need to defend me.
I often do seem to be ethereal, or even Lovecraftian horror at times depending on the circumstances.
As for being well defined, I found some lines in my coding stating “undefined”.
Maybe if I punch random numbers I there, I can develop tentacles, maybe even plasma cannon tentacles!

*Pop! D-sheare turns into a giant amoeba*

Oops.

[TheOldLady]

Very impressive, Darks! I must say that plasma cannon tentacles would probably come in very handy these days.

Koochie Koochie! Chin Uh... I sure hope it’s your chin... Anyway, chin chucks, cutie!

[NicknamedBob]

"*Pop! D-sheare turns into a giant amoeba*

Oops."

One would think you had learned your lesson anent the mushrooms.