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Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
Miami Herald ^

Posted on 02/23/2018 10:17:35 AM PST by TigerClaws

Updated 2 hours 51 minutes ago A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.

On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.

Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article201604224.html#storylink=cpy

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To: Tenacious 1

HYPOTHETICALLY. hypothetically

Everyone knows about my canoe accident.


61 posted on 02/23/2018 10:40:48 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: TigerClaws

SWAT be called if someone used the word “niggardly.”


62 posted on 02/23/2018 10:40:48 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: bert

LOL...


63 posted on 02/23/2018 10:41:55 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: TigerClaws; All

I this incident possibly an example of public school anti-gun indoctrination that has backfired?


64 posted on 02/23/2018 10:42:13 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: C210N
i see what you did there.
65 posted on 02/23/2018 10:42:56 AM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Daffynition

Hahahaha!


66 posted on 02/23/2018 10:43:40 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: Rebelbase
√ is a weapon of math instruction.

Winner! We have a winner here. No more calls accepted!

67 posted on 02/23/2018 10:44:12 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: jurroppi1

We are the world
We are the children...

I’d like the buy the world a Coke...

Ebony and ivory...

Feel good stuff like that is just that, feel good. We have a generation raised on it.

Have you ever seen the movie, The Pianist? I’m concerned that our culture is about to learn the hard lesson the woman in that movie learned in this scene (from here: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Pianist,-The.html):

EXT. WAREHOUSE YARD - DAWN

Still quite dark. The Szpilmans and about twenty others
lined up under lights shining on them from a couple of
German vehicles.

The NCO goes along the line, making a selection, using his
pistol to prod people into moving. When he gets to the
Szpilmans he selects Henryk and Halina. Then, he turns to
those who are left:

NCO
The rest of you get dressed then
report back here. Bring your
belongings. Fifteen kilos only.

A YOUNG WOMAN
Where are you taking us?

The NCO turns his pistol on the young woman and shoots her
through the head. He marches off while she lies on the
ground with blood spurting out of her.


68 posted on 02/23/2018 10:44:49 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Red Badger

..and the precision sight reticle!


69 posted on 02/23/2018 10:44:54 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Rebelbase
Give me cube root. Infinitely sexy.


70 posted on 02/23/2018 10:45:14 AM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Delta 21

Good heavens! A SCOPE!...................


71 posted on 02/23/2018 10:45:26 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: robroys woman

If these students think that the square root symbol looks like a gun and make remakes based on that, I have to wonder about their home life and background. I don’t believe that such individuals would benefit from home schooling. The students who would benefit from home schooling would also probably benefit from the absence of said individuals.
Just how far can things be dumbed down so that everyone gets their participation trophy?


72 posted on 02/23/2018 10:46:23 AM PST by Nuocmam (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: sipow

Kinda imaginary, though..............


73 posted on 02/23/2018 10:46:33 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: bert

Home school is not for everyone. But a little strong in your statement. Nothing removes the power of the collective over families quite like opting out of the collective. Very powerful tool indeed.


74 posted on 02/23/2018 10:46:57 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: TigerClaws

So on one hand we have a bunch of law enforcement dopes who don’t do anything when they every reason to think some lunatic kid is going to kill a bunch of people (including one particular loser who stands there with his thumb up his ass while the kid’s actually committing the murders) and on the other hand we have another bunch of law enforcement dopes who go after a kid for making a math symbol that kinda looks like a gun.

Sigh.


75 posted on 02/23/2018 10:47:08 AM PST by Pravious
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To: TigerClaws

Well, it’s one way to ban math from schools...


76 posted on 02/23/2018 10:47:28 AM PST by TomServo
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To: TigerClaws
...the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number...

Journalism was the right career choice.

77 posted on 02/23/2018 10:49:43 AM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Mr.Unique

lol


78 posted on 02/23/2018 10:51:19 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Ken H

GOOD CATCH!!!


79 posted on 02/23/2018 10:51:27 AM PST by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: Tenacious 1

“Is 1 not a number?”

It is, but it’s the loneliest number you’ll ever do...


80 posted on 02/23/2018 10:53:32 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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