A 10-year-old pointed a finger gun. The principal kicked him out of his Tenn. school for a year.

ProPublica via Yahoo ^ | August 26, 2024 | Adam Friedman

[grundle]

In the letter, the principal added that the district and the state of Tennessee “take such threats very seriously.”

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.

[Red Badger]

Our educators are morons and idiots lead by imbeciles.............

[Gene Eric]

Principal seems like a tyrannical jackass

[FlingWingFlyer]

How many kids did they throw out for sucking their thumb like a tobacco pipe?

[Larry Lucido]

[Red6]

And they all have masters degrees and PhDs.

[xoxox]

that turns them on.

[Leep]

Bella needs to home school her son.

[Phoenix8]

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.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

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.

[MayflowerMadam]

In TN, no less, the new home of Smith & Wesson.

[Red Badger]

A degree in Edukashun..................

[DesertRhino]

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.

[SPDSHDW]

Tennessee is suffering the same, if not worse, as Idaho and Montana. CA Jackasses heading out that way.

[I want the USA back]

A finger is not a gun.

[NorthMountain]

The difference in quality between government school teachers and private school teachers is stark.

[Buttons12]

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.

[Biblebelter]

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.

[mewzilla]

If this is being filtered through ProPublica...

Trust but verify, folks.

[Ciaphas Cain]

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.