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.)
Oh, rats. Please excuse. I try to avoid those double-digit things because people here value them so much, but I got enthused and wasn’t watching. I’ll get lost now. Still praying.
Sounds fun!
I would have picked up the -00, but I didn’t have anything to say. Also, all the byos have turned up in the last few minutes.
I'd line up with them to get breakfast, but it's too far to walk.
If you get at the front of the line and then go around to the end, you can get two breakfasts.
Mmmm. Second breakfast.
Yum.
Avocados, onion, chilis (serrano and/or jalapeno), tomato, garlic, cilantro, olive oil, lemon juice, salt to taste.
YAY, NULLY!!!
I added to the subject matter...he pilfered state water rights in the county just north of here, and wants to set up a high-speed train in the desert going...nowhere...
Mmmm...my favorite fruit and vegetable!
I’m home. It was a rough night. I have to get my pennies together and go to Walmart for my nitro, some baby aspirin and some potassium gluconate.
It seems lately that I have to take so much stuff over when I go to do laundry that it’s almost not worth it. This time, I packed a suitcase. It was almost as bad, but I only had to make one trip from the house to the car and back...
Today, I was supposed to go to the Scottish games, but said no in hopes I could rest up enough for the birthday party tomorrow.
Friday, I packed away the space heater, and have already used the floor fan in the bedroom. The filters are scheduled to be changed the end of the month, and because of the rain/leak in November, I’m not turning the A/C on until the filter is changed. I don’t need any more things to affect my breathing.
I haven’t read to the end of the posts, but I’m sure hoping Piper is found soon! Anoreth must be worried sick. Give her a beer, my treat...her choice! ;o]
LOL I have a lot of whine and cheez at home.
He wore what? Plum! He wore a fruit! Everything matched, and he talked differently the first time he robbed. No, your Excellency. He was dressed entirely in plum..
SÍ!!!!!!!!! Sí, he sounded like a poof.. SMACK!!!
Excellency , I’ve been robbed. IH Zorro, he was dressed in yellow like a BIG banana.
AAH HA I think he’s trying to tell me something first a plum than a Banana…
Like a lime. Green.. SÍ…. I know just tell me what he wore.. Alcade, Alcade, something terrible has happened.. Ah ha two fruits, one vegetable. Green like a avocado.
Actually an avocado is a fruit. Your Excellency. No, you’re right two fruits, one vegetable.
Excellency.. What did he wear????. Red
Red like a apple or red like a radish AH HA, Two fruits, one vegetable, and one flowwa….. Red like a rose…
Alcade, Alcade.. SÍ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was green like a salad. Senor….. WITH A TOMATO…
One salad, three fruit, two.. One. (whistle) SELENTINO!!!!
I have teenagers.
You gotz a text now.
We’re all concerned about Piper, but just have to wait and hope. Lots of woods for her to wander, birds and things to kill if she feels like it. And the weather is nice.
One of my church friends came over this afternoon and took Anoreth for a ride on his Harley Davidson. I’m told she had a good time! I had to go to Walmart and then pick up Pat, and now she’s back reading Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and snuffling - pollen is high as well as entropy, with a strong whiff of chicken farms!
LOL!
And THAT, my FRiends, was how George Harrison IV found his forte!
You gotz several texts! LOL!
I love riding pillion on Busdaddy’s Harley. There is nothing like it. Of course, with both of us overweight, the poor bike would be overloaded. He’s seriously thinking of doing the Nutrisystem diet, because he just has such a tough time with self-discipline when he is overweight. He gets discouraged so easily, now.
But maybe he can try this (the minimum is two months, with a $30 discount if you do it over the phone) and make enough progress to become enthused. What has he got to lose besides an adult in body weight?
He might consider the 17-day Diet. You can get the book from the library or used book store, and lose a very substantial amount. I lost 12 lbs., I think, and I was a smallish girl, not a great big man, to start with.
My friend Dave is a big guy, not really overweight but well over 6 feet ... but Anoreth is tiny.
Busdaddy and I are pretty much the same height. He has a tendency to gain weight, anyway, and had to work hard when he was in the army to keep his BMI within acceptable limits.
I can stand to lose 40+ pounds, but he has to lose more than double that amount.
Ah, like Tom. He needs to lose about 80, even though he’s so tall.
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