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Boy Suspended for Pointing Finger Like Gun
Newser ^ | 3/4/14 | 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.)


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To: Tax-chick

Not yet, but will be in 3h 35 minutes. 20:25h
The sun is setting around 6 again instead of 4:15 ish, Summer is approaching.


81 posted on 03/04/2014 12:27:15 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

We change to Daylight Savings Time at midnight this coming up Saturday. It will be dark longer in the mornings (and the offpring, whingier), but it will be light for Cub Scouts meetings.


82 posted on 03/04/2014 12:29:07 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: Tax-chick

I hate DST. It’s totally unnecessary. And the older I get, the harder it is for me to adjust.


83 posted on 03/04/2014 12:30:53 PM PST by Monkey Face (The world is a magical place full of people waiting to be offended by something.)
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To: Monkey Face

I don’t like changing, either. But we are ... and it will be light for Cub Scouts meetings. If we hadn’t done the Fall Back in October, we’d have had light for meetings back in the late fall.


84 posted on 03/04/2014 12:31:59 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick

Dst/ bst, confuses next doors Cat.
He knows he has to be out from under the car by 05:00h sharp, then out of the blue it starts at 4 am , by his watch. Huh?


85 posted on 03/04/2014 12:40:35 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

Time, what do you make of it?


86 posted on 03/04/2014 12:43:13 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: Tax-chick

I like it


87 posted on 03/04/2014 12:56:15 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Darksheare

Thank You for the pings.


88 posted on 03/04/2014 12:59:43 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Tax-chick

That is relative to your velocity through space.
Time doesn’t exist, it is just a neat trick of gravity; whatever that is?
If it did, Clocks and Watches wouldn’t need a battery or spring to run on. They would be time powered ,through differential mechanical propulsion.
It is a figment of our linear processing system created in order to remove chaos and fear.
That is my theory, and I’m sticking with it until a better one comes along. :)


89 posted on 03/04/2014 1:07:04 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

I lapsed from math when we were supposed to learn about Vectors. Vectors are a type of demigods, aren’t they?


90 posted on 03/04/2014 1:13:31 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: moose07

Best explanation I’ve ever heard. Thanks Moose!


91 posted on 03/04/2014 1:14:00 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Darksheare

Is this our new home for March?


92 posted on 03/04/2014 1:18:01 PM PST by Monkey Face (The world is a magical place full of people waiting to be offended by something.)
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To: Monkey Face; Darksheare

Why not?


93 posted on 03/04/2014 1:31:49 PM PST by Tax-chick (I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
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To: Monkey Face

Dunno yet.
We haven’t exactly had a good run of options.
I’ll ask the thread originator.
We could highlight libtardist terminology.
“Level 2 lookalike firearm” indeed.


94 posted on 03/04/2014 1:40:04 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Would you object terribly to this being the March installment of the Undead Thread?


95 posted on 03/04/2014 1:40:44 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

May I say a word to the owner?


96 posted on 03/04/2014 1:45:09 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Impala64ssa

Your thread reminds me of something once I heard in song ... was in OneRepublic ... Counting Stars. I could lie but I love this thread of yours. Shows me the things that aren’t but that be in the lessons learned.


97 posted on 03/04/2014 1:50:40 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: moose07; Monkey Face; Darksheare; Tax-chick; NoCmpromiz; no-to-illegals
the secret device we've been looking for?

remember these things?

...back when being a kid was still fun..


98 posted on 03/04/2014 1:51:55 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Tax-chick

We covered vectors in four different subjects at College.
The only one that stuck was the transportation of pathogens.
As for the rest, we’ll have to wait for the wd40 to do its thing.


99 posted on 03/04/2014 1:53:13 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: Darksheare; Impala64ssa
My apology to you Darks for I did not wait on your answer.

Impala64ssa, Your decision, for I want no power to influence you or anyone else. Well, maybe that is a bit of a small white lie.

100 posted on 03/04/2014 1:55:53 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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