4th-grader suspended for gun shell in pocket

worldnetdaily.com ^ | November 21, 2002

[billorites]

I will move Heaven and Earth so that none of my children ever have to attend a government school.

[FreeTally]

a shotgun shell left over from an outing with his father and brothers last weekend.

Hmmmmm.....

"They shouldn't have had Camouflage Day," said Kay Cross, Jonathan's mother. "It's militaristic; it has connotations of violence. He just happened to have a shell in his pocket."

I am going to go out on a limb here and say I bet his parents are divorced.

[freedomcrusader]

Amen.

[RonF]

If this kid walked into the school with a live shotgun shell in his pocket, then some kind of severe punishment is warranted. Although, given this is a 4th grader, the punishment should fall on his parents, not him.

[LibWhacker]

"A shotgun shell is considered an explosive," said Cathy Dunbar, the school's assistant principal.

Judging from earlier abundant evidence of NEA stupidity, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this was an already fired shell casing.

[Dataman]

We kind of go with five. ... It's not like we really wanted to come down hard on him. We didn't

More evidence of the great intellectual reserve found in our public schools of lower education.

[Dataman]

Cathy Dumbar

[Hank Kerchief]

If this kid walked into the school with a live shotgun shell in his pocket, then some kind of severe punishment is warranted.

Would you mind explaining what the evil of having a shotgun shell in one's pocket is. Anywhere?

("What if..." does not make anything wrong. I'm not interested in the law here, it's the law I'm questionsing.)

Hank

[szweig]

It is idiocy like this that makes me grateful and thankful that I have no children. Now if I can only figure out how to stop funding it with my property taxes...SSZ

[Myrnick]

Isn't this equivalent to throwing a "leather day" and then finding out the kid with two daddies has shown up with a massive sex toy in his pocket? But of course, we couldn't suspend that kid because his "parents" would simply be exercising a "life choice."

[texas booster]

A 9-year-old handing out Certs mints in Manassas, Va., and two students taking them suspended for ten days for drug-policy violations;

I had not heard about this one. It brings to mind lots of questions.

What if the child had been handing out Altoids? Life in prison?

But if the kid handed the Altoids out in sex ed class, would they get an "A"?

I remember from somewhere that a teacher was reprimanded from discussing the Starr Report on x42 due to some lame reason. Probably a desire to shield kids from "inappropriate materials", surely not political correct indoctrination.

I keep a list of these incidents for the times we are questioned about home schooling. It is a real eye-opener for some parents, but many folks already know of the stupidity in government schools. And they continue to send their kids to school.

[pa_dweller]

Maybe he should have gone as a sheep?

[38special]

It must have been on of those "High-Powered" shotgun shells I keep hearing about in the media.

[biblewonk]

In basic training you would get a lot worse than expelled for having brass in your pocket.

[Joe Brower]

"They shouldn't have had Camouflage Day," said Kay Cross, Jonathan's mother. "It's militaristic; it has connotations of violence."

Boilerplate drivel from the Nation of Cowards.

[Robert Drobot]

I'll go you one better. I believe it was an anti-gun set-up with mom and school acting in unison.

[fatboy]

Judging from earlier abundant evidence of NEA stupidity, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this was an already fired shell casing.

I had the same feeling.

Another poster said that he thought that the parrents are divorced. I do not know why anyone would say this. About the same time that this child was hunting with his dad, My 11 year old son and I were pheasant hunting during the state youth hunting day. My son bagged his first bird. This Saturday, we are going on a youth deer hunt. My son's mother and I (his father) are not divorced, we just like to spend time together outdoors.

Since my son and I spend alot of time shooting, I worry about him taking a spent shell to school. I tell him not to talk about guns to anyone. When he was in 4th grade, he was suspended 3 times for violations of the zero tol. policy of the school. None of these infractions involved weapons or fights, only verbal infractions. The last week of school, he got into an actual fist fight and was not punished. The schools are out of control.

Tom

[Charles Martel]

You may be right about that. Even if the mother was not involved, it seems pretty likely that "Camoflage Day" was intended as a fishing expedition. The school officials who dreamed the event up knew perfectly well that there would be a greater chance of catching some child with ammo in his coat pocket. Worked like a charm, too.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

4th-grader suspended for gun shell in pocket
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