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 hope so... After the Reaper costume, I wanted to try a Spirit Walker too.
Yay!! Congratulations. I knew you couldn’t be defeated by a few missing or garbled pages of assembly instructions.
You are fully welcome to partake of Taco of Doom.
Those look really complicated, but they seem to be a big hit.
The comments are peppered with “I want ones.”
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It’s from Searchlight, Nevada Reid came
With the BLM he plays the game
He’s a weasel and crook
Some mob payoffs he took
But, of course, the Tea Party’s to blame
Avocados plus avocados equals guacamole?
Green paste.
Darling!
I wish I were going to spend the day with old books and a cat or two, but no, there are many other things. First on the calendar is getting Patrick to some kid’s Eagle Project workday ... same kid as the last several times, it’s taking longer than he expected.
After that, there’s a possibility Anoreth will be doing some motorcycle riding with one of my church friends. We keep leaving messages with one another’s family members, but it appears something will happen. And I suppose people will want meals, which means Walmart.
*groan*
Mr. Sg and I collaborated on his costume one year and made something similar. Add rollerblades and you get this creepy gliding effect unless, of course, you can't skate.
Yayyyyy!!!!!
There's a business opportunity here. We can organize workshops for conceited people. Give them tasks a,b,c and d just like FReepers e,f,g and h have done, a time frame within which they must accomplish said tasks, and a certificate of humiliation and/or incompetence when they fail. If they don't fail, we can conscript them and one of our resident geniuses (genii?) can do attitude adjustment. Win-win.
Rats. I went to sleep thinking that Piper would be home by morning.
Piper wouldn’t recognize “coming back” here, unless she was passing by and saw Anoreth’s car. The most likely positive outcome is that in a day or two, she’ll decide she wants to be around other dogs, and someone will notice a loose purebred husky and call animal control or the number on our sign. Maybe early next week.
Then we’ll have to keep her until Whenever, which would not go over well with the cats, or maybe I can plan a road trip to NJ ;-). I just hope she’s found somehow, poor dear, even if the findee decided to keep her!
Anyway, I’m sure you’re exhausted from nursing Chainsaw. After years of waking up every time I heard Ash’s collar jingle, I keep hearing the wind chime outside the kitchen and thinking it’s a dog. Piper isn’t wearing a collar, though.
A roadtrip to NJ sounds interesting. I'd be sure to have a CCW w/reciprocity before I went anywhere, though.
You get off the ferry right in Cape May and don’t have to go to the rest of NJ at all.
Since I've left the house twice during the past six weeks (dental hygiene visit and annual physical w/labs, etc.), Mr. Sg has been going to church by himself. He got into a conversation with the women's bible teacher who, it turns out, lives right in the neighborhood which is, around here, within five miles over a couple of hills off on a dirt road in a clearing in the forest. She and her husband love camping and have an efficient setup and know a lot about places to go locally (within a hundred miles). What a blessing! The bible classes are very lively, and we're all so jazzed about the discussions that we don't talk about personal stuff, so it's really a stroke of great good fortune that Mr. Sg was there to chat with her.
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