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Boy Suspended for Pointing Finger Like Gun
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| Kate Seamons
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.)
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: banglist; childhood; columbus; discipline; koalaoil; lvl2lookalike; molassessmiasma; monkeyfacerules; ntsa; psychology; stupidteachers; tiffanypoon; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere; waronboys; zerotolerance
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To: Tax-chick
2,761
posted on
04/08/2014 8:58:23 AM PDT
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Darksheare
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To: Monkey Face
Yeah.
I just wish I’d been on this machine instead of my mobile debice last night.
2,762
posted on
04/08/2014 8:59:01 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: csvset; Tax-chick
Must be on the way home from the pub. Nothing else could make that bunneh so funneh!
2,763
posted on
04/08/2014 9:00:11 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Liberalism: Moochers electing looters to steal from producers.)
To: Darksheare
It would make for an interesting story over coffee... ;o]
2,764
posted on
04/08/2014 9:01:29 AM PDT
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Monkey Face
(Liberalism: Moochers electing looters to steal from producers.)
To: Monkey Face
2,765
posted on
04/08/2014 9:03:18 AM PDT
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Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Tax-chick
Like a Boss...
2,766
posted on
04/08/2014 9:45:08 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
To: Dead Corpse
2,767
posted on
04/08/2014 9:48:56 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Entropy is high. Wear a hat!)
To: Dead Corpse
2,768
posted on
04/08/2014 9:58:50 AM PDT
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Monkey Face
(Liberalism: Moochers electing looters to steal from producers.)
To: Tax-chick
2,769
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04/08/2014 11:39:24 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: GeronL
2,770
posted on
04/08/2014 12:01:06 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Entropy is high. Wear a hat!)
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posted on
04/08/2014 1:09:28 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
2,772
posted on
04/08/2014 1:24:55 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick
We can tell by looking at him.Tries to keep postage stamps in his wallet, eh?
By observation... He won't eat grits... ;-)
2,773
posted on
04/08/2014 2:30:56 PM PDT
by
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
To: NoCmpromiz
Grits are good with butter and garlic...and some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower! Can't get much more Yankee than Massachusetts
2,774
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04/08/2014 2:46:39 PM PDT
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Monkey Face
(Liberalism: Moochers electing looters to steal from producers.)
To: Scoutmaster; Silentgypsy; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Darksheare; NicknamedBob; null and void; ...
Any logical analysis out there? Not really. ;-)
I'm having trouble getting Buckeye Brownies out of the the cake tin.
2,775
posted on
04/08/2014 4:26:07 PM PDT
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fanfan
("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
To: fanfan
Tell them if they don’t get out of the cake tin they’ll never grow up to be Buckeye Girl Scouts...
2,776
posted on
04/08/2014 4:30:52 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Politics: Voting for the monkeys that are better at flinging poo at their opponents...)
To: fanfan
Scandalous!
Outrage!
Declare war on those brownies, spoon attack on three!
Too over the top?
;-)
2,777
posted on
04/08/2014 4:40:40 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare; fanfan
Actually, I was thinking of silicon plastic bakeware. Cake tins, muffin pans; you just peel the cookware off the baked goods.
Too simple?
2,778
posted on
04/08/2014 5:17:35 PM PDT
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NicknamedBob
(The weekend is here! I have so much to do that I'm exhausted already.)
To: NicknamedBob; fanfan
“Silicon”
Horrible mental image was of the bakeware snarling and chasing the baker down.
2,779
posted on
04/08/2014 5:50:28 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare
Hmph. You think “organic” plastic is something better?
2,780
posted on
04/08/2014 6:52:56 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(The weekend is here! I have so much to do that I'm exhausted already.)
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