Posted on 02/23/2018 5:09:10 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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.
After several students made comments along those lines, another student said something the sheriff’s office said could have sounded like a threat out of context.
Police searched the student’s home, where they found no guns or any evidence that he had any access to guns. Authorities also wrote there was no evidence the student had any intent to commit harm.
“The student used extremely poor judgment in making the comment, but in light of the actual circumstances, there was clearly no evidence to support criminal charges,” the department wrote, adding that the school board had been contacted to determine any disciplinary action for the student.
The investigation came about a week after a gunman opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine’s Day, killing 17 people and wounding 14 more.
The mass shooting sparked a wave of reported threats against other schools across the country — threats that are still coming in by the day and have set local parents, students and emergency officials on high alert.
In the Miami area alone, school threats jumped from one a week to as many as 50 a day, the Miami Herald reported.
Still, many on social media thought the reaction to the “threat” in Oberlin was more than a little overblown.
Add Maryland.
Folded stock assault rifle.
Here’s your sign...
Meanwhile, if some kid spends years broadcasting he’s going to commit mass murder, everyone yuks it up.
A kid gets in trouble from biting a pop tart a certain way...
A high school kid gets in trouble for saying the math symbol looks like a gun...
A kid has 39 police visits to his house...Calls to police about his actions and threats...Reports to FBI about him...and NOTHING is done....
It’s just as disturbing the students didn’t recognize a square root symbol.
I think they recognized what it was...Just made a comment that it shaped like a gun...
This is like the idiot in Seattle who thought the Swiss flag was the confederate flag and called the police. We’re living in insane times folks!
As if that makes me feel any better.
You can teach stupidity after all.
That is creative.
A NAND gate looks like a part of the female anatomy. I could play this game all day!
These kids are crazy AND stupid!
It was the Norwegian flag so it's OK
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