Posted on 03/04/2014 8:26:45 AM PST by 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.)
I know, right? On the plus side, the Northern Mockingbird is out in the back yard, mocking at the top of his lungs. “Come here, girls! Come join me in my fine nest, convenient to cats!”
I never was able to figure out birds by their calls, let alone their accents.
It's amazing that you can distinguish that he's a Northerner.
We can tell by looking at him.
Tries to keep postage stamps in his wallet, eh?
Hi, Ganag!
I made it through the night with not too much difficulty, but I’m not optimistic about the day ahead.
Still, life is good. The sun is coming up and the weather prognosticator says it’s going to be about 87 today. From the sublime to the ridiculous...
Glad to hear it! Been to Walmart, off to library.
I haven’t been anywhere, but I may go...
So far, I’ve had a shower, a breathing treatment and an ulcer cocktail. I think I need a hit of nitro, but that’s easy.
I need to take my watch down to get a battery, then go to Walmart for some bananas. Not too much on the agenda today. Of course, I still have dishes in the sink. Maybe I’ll get to them today.
In the meantime, I’m here. Hahahaha!
Back from the library. Next I need to give lunch to the byos and Kathleen.
Metallica used to put out consistent work prior to the album “load”.
After that..well.
Hello.
Been a thoroughly ggro evening.
Had to go to work.
Saw some moron broad brush smear all military servicemembers as “skinhead mercenary dog killers”.
Still angry over that.
Show me where that moron is and I’ll take care of your light-work!
Of course, when confronted with people like that, I’m inclined to respond with something like, “And just think: Those ‘skinheads’ are protecting your right to act the fool.”
The bums aren’t worth any more than that. They think they, in their willful stupidity, are right.
Nice, Nully.
But you’re OK with being threatened because Mr Broadbrush signed up in ‘97?
Patience.
He’s sitting quietly at the moment and he is a 97 sign up.
Gotta go through proper channels.
Having been on my mobile device last night, I didn’t have my military pinglists on hand or he’d have gotten a fine how to do.
Lol.
Doesn’t matter.
His statements were egregious enough that sign up date doesn’t matter.
“We have a responsibility to make sure Jeb runs”
In front of a rabid wombat preferably.
For some reason, the inclusion of a marsupial seems particularly appropriate to Jeb. Oh, the things my mother will say about him after a few drinks!
You, so far, are the only one who caught that.
*snicker*
Thanks.
*Warning: Lot's of F bombs*
By the time they’ve been with a company that long, it almost takes an act of Congress to get rid of them.
Hmmm...military ping list...”welcoming committee” just took on a whole new meaning!
With all the shoot-’em ups in work places, dissenters are not very well looked upon.
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