Posted on 08/26/2024 8:33:57 AM PDT by grundle
When Belle got a call last September that her 10-year-old had been sent to the vice principal’s office, she rushed over to the school. Her son Lee looked on anxiously as the vice principal explained the situation: The fifth grader had angrily pointed his finger in the shape of a gun.
Belle scolded him for not thinking before he acted, agreeing with administrators at the East Tennessee public elementary school who felt that he had misbehaved.
While Lee sat at home for a few days serving a suspension, the principal called Belle. The school had conducted an investigation and determined that Lee would be kicked out for an entire calendar year. “I regret that it has come to this,” the principal wrote in a subsequent letter, which Belle provided to ProPublica. (At Belle’s request, ProPublica is identifying her and her son only by their middle names and leaving out the name of the district and school to prevent her child from being identifiable.) In the letter, the principal added that the district and the state of Tennessee “take such threats very seriously.”
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I'm glad that I grew up in a time when the principal's response would have been to point a finger gun at me, instead of suspending me for a year.
Our educators are morons and idiots lead by imbeciles.............
Principal seems like a tyrannical jackass
How many kids did they throw out for sucking their thumb like a tobacco pipe?
And they all have masters degrees and PhDs.
that turns them on.
Bella needs to home school her son.
I have a 9 year old grandson, one of 5. Very studious, academic and not very athletic.
Yet he does occasionally play with imaginary guns, seems almost a genetic impulse in us males at those ages.
Just stupid and evil to punish them for it.
I am truly grateful our kids are long since grown. It was bad enough in the 90s, I think school administrative people are tyrannical by nature.
In TN, no less, the new home of Smith & Wesson.
A degree in Edukashun..................
We had western day once a year. Everyone brought their cap guns and rifles. We had to stacker rifles in the corner of the classroom before recess. In high school everyone had a rifle in the gun rack in the pick up.
Tennessee is suffering the same, if not worse, as Idaho and Montana. CA Jackasses heading out that way.
A finger is not a gun.
The difference in quality between government school teachers and private school teachers is stark.
A year free of the asylum. I see the blessing, what’s the problem?
Blessing = Just one year of homeschooling at the age of ten could increase his brain power exponentially.
I am certain of the racial profile of the kid suspended.
If a 13 per center were suspended, a race pimp like Ben Crump would be telling the story to the media.
If this is being filtered through ProPublica...
Trust but verify, folks.
For Halloween my senior year of high school, I came in costume as the Terminator. I used my dad’s old biker outfit, had my hair teased up, wore dark glasses etc. everything. I walked the hallways carrying a toy submachine gun. The principal thought it was great!! But that was in 1991.
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