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]

The giant mutant man eating mushrooms?
No, didn’t learn yet.

[Monkey Face]

You’re my hero and your parents are awesome! (I’m sad that you aren’t available for adoption...)

[Darksheare]

LOL!

[NicknamedBob]

No, I’m talking about the experiment we undertook to transmit mushrooms through a FAX Maxhine, as you called it.

Speaking of an oops!

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Giant mutant men can eat anything they want to eat.

[moose07]

[moose07]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3136873/posts

[Monkey Face]

Wish you were here, Moosie!

[moose07]

Hi ‘Face.
I did try several times during the late 90’s to emigrate.
A friend of mine succeeded...He Attended Harvard then UCLA, had a Permanent Job and married an American Lady, Ten years later he was accepted for Permanent status.
Not easy to get in, for us...
Lives in CA now.

[TheOldLady]

Bryan’s parents brought him to California when he was three.

He got an American education through college (UCLA), and fresh out of college, he started working. I trained him on his first technical job, and we worked together for years.

We got married when he was 28 and I was 32. We continued to work together for many years until he asked me to quit and keep house about 17 years ago.

He got tired of not being able to vote and became a citizen six years ago, finally.

And we do not cancel out each others votes.

[moose07]

Hi TOL,
Things have become more difficult in the last years.
Even Australia and New Zealand have made things difficult.

[TheOldLady]

Well that’s a dang shame! You’d make a great American, I’m sure. :-)

[moose07]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThoZNxy2JZk

have watched this performance in 1 to 1 scale.

[Darksheare]

Nope, still didn’t learn from that fax maxhine accident either.
“Pain is for the weak!”

[Dead Corpse]

Never too late to start... :-)

[NicknamedBob]

"Nope, still didn’t learn from that fax maxhine accident either."

Well, who am I to complain? I was riding around in my alter-ego's skin, and I fell off a bicycle!

I ended up in a completely new clone body, and I had to start all over.

All I can say is, stay away from that reset button.

[Silentgypsy]

This is Chainsaw (orphaned puppy) on her second day of age.

And here she is on day 6. Tomorrow, she'll be three weeks old!

[Silentgypsy]

Oops. Ping.

[Slings and Arrows]

Awww, what a beautiful little girl! What breed is she?

Give her a kiss for me!

[Silentgypsy]

She’s a mini-Dachshund. I didn’t know they came in blonde.

[Slings and Arrows]

Nor I. She’s a darling.