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254918 No.254918
Administrators at Grace M. Breckwedel Middle School are standing by their decision to suspend a fifth-grader who brought a lighter onto school property Wednesday, even after the child's father called police to report that adults there had the same items.

"It has the potential to compromise student safety in this building," said Dr. Gail Verona, district superintendent. "It's our responsibility to keep kids safe. I feel very secure about our decision — we have zero tolerance for this type of thing."

While walking to school, the 11-year-old boy found the lighter on the side of the road near the middle school, said Patrick Halpin, the boy's father.

Shortly after school began, another student noticed the boy with the lighter in his hand and alerted a teacher, who promptly took the lighter away and notified the administration, Halpin said.

At approximately 8:40 a.m., Halpin received a call from school officials asking him to pick up his son, who had been suspended for bringing "a weapon to the school."

"I said, 'since when is a lighter a weapon?' " Halpin said. "They kept saying a lighter is a weapon."

After discussing the matter with school officials in person, Halpin contacted police, alerting them that there were weapons on school property, asserting that teachers had lighters in the building.

"I'm little irate because he's a responsible kid," Halpin said of his son. "He's a Boy Scout."
Police, who said they were called by school officials about the same time Halpin called them, arrived on the scene and met with school officials and Halpin.

Although the student never sparked the lighter, school officials decided to suspend the boy for the day, citing a policy in the student discipline code of conduct which states: "pupils shall not . . . set fire to or cause fire in any way on school premises."

"It depends on your whole interpretation of what a weapon is," Verona later said. "It's not a weapon as a knife is a weapon. But a weapon is anything that has the potential to cause harm."

Considering the school's previous experience, Verona remains vigilant on her position.

Last spring, a student set fire in one of the middle school's bathrooms using a lighter, causing very minor damage, she said.

"There's been a heightened awareness and a very heightened concern about student safety," she said. "Maybe this student wouldn't have set fire to anything, but there's the potential that it could have been passed to someone who would have."

Staff members are not prohibited from bringing lighters or matches onto school property as long as they are kept secured and out of the reach of children, the superintendent said.

"I think in this day and age, the school made a good judgment call," said Jamesburg Police Chief Martin Horvath, who was one of the responding officers. "Everyone has a different opinion. Typically, someone says the word weapon and you think of a gun or knife. It would be impossible to put every single thing in a policy — a pencil could be a weapon."

Verona said she had no plans to notify parents about the policy, unless further incidents occur.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100922/NEWS/9220359/Jamesburg+fifth-grader+brings+lighter+to+school++suspended+for+having++weapon+

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No.254922
When will soccer moms finally understand that ZERO TOLERANCE DOES NOT WORK!?!?!

No.254923
>>254922
When they get their SUV hijacked by 6th graders.

No.254927
>>After discussing the matter with school officials in person, Halpin contacted police, alerting them that there were weapons on school property, asserting that teachers had lighters in the building.

Fucking hypocrites. I bet you the police and school administrators did nothing to the teachers who were carrying "weapons" on school grounds.

No.254936
> But a weapon is anything that has the potential to cause harm."

That's an utterly insane definition. By that stroke, everything is a weapon. The chairs they sit on can be picked up and used to smash a student over the head. If there are hammers in the shop, a student can just grab one and go nuts. That's not to mention scissors, books, athletic equipment like bats. The list goes on and on.

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254948
NRA meeting

No.254967
>>254936
I wonder when the teachers will figure out that pencils are sharp, and are kept that way routinely.

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255001
Lunatics to the Left, Lunatics to the Right, and Not a Drop to Drink

God. Oh God. Oh God, God, God. It is getting worse. Maybe I’ll take cyanide.

I find this inspiriting headline polluting my inbox like rotting road-kill. It's from Broward County, Florida:

“Child Still Expelled for Toy Gun - a Year Later Parents want their child back in school. School board says no way”

See? Florida collectively is out of its tiny little mind. What if this crepuscular pathology spreads to other countries? Or planets?

“School board officials said the rules are quite clear and that the toy gun constituted a weapon.”

Me, I figure the school-board officials constitute a pack of priggish low-Board simians who ought to be swinging in trees instead of trying to run a school. But then, I’m a curmudgeon.

Think about it. Kid—he’s eight—shows up with toy gun after watching 12,000 hours of shoot’em-ups on the lobotomy box, Luke Skywalker blasting funny-looking milkmen like a pretty little mollycoddle turned psychopath. Kid sees war coverage with heroic GIs in Afghanistan killing anybody they can see. He watches recruiting ads for the Marines, who carry guns and want A Few Good Persons. Why would he possibly be interested in a toy gun?

And why would nominal adults, even the barely educated variety characteristically found on school boards, want to wreck the kid’s life? Actually of course it is passive aggression, an attack on the tyke, said attack masquerading, or perhaps marauding is the better word, as high moral endeavor. See, they’re protecting Western Civilization.

The US these days rolls in passive aggression. The country grows daily more mean-spirited, more wrapped in a miasma of diffuse anger, but you still can’t just go up to a child and hit him with a ball bat, or throw acid in his face. No. Instead you find a smugly righteous way to set him back two years in school, thus making him into a guaranteed social misfit. How very…I don’t think “intelligent” is an adequate word. Perhaps “sublime” is better. Or “supernal.”

As tensions grow in America, as divisions flourish, and the nation leads up to something unseen but ugly, prissy vindictiveness and moral sadism become normal. We have become a gotcha culture, watchful for transgressions meaningless but forbidden, so that we can make the malfeasor squirm. How we enjoy the squirming, the writhing on camera, the heavy punishments inflected for nothing.

The other day I was watching television, which I do in the spirit of Margaret Meade investigating her primitives. It’s an electronic Petri dish. Anyway, a story aired of excruciating importance,.At any rate it was excruciating. A politician had been discovered to have forwarded an email containing a picture of a woman copulating with a horse. Delight erupted, disguised as horror: A chance to make him squirm! His election could depend on revelation of this vile perversion, this sickening transgression against, and so on. All waited expectantly for him to whine and beg and lick feet. This reaction by the public strikes me as kinkier than the horse and its tart.

Let us dive, or perhaps wade for reason of long drought, into Truth. We are all adults here. Let’s have a show of hands: How many readers have never looked at porn online?...Ah, I see that I am writing a blog for amputees. How many have never looked at anything more robustly exotic than Presbyterians in the missionary position? (Raise your stumps.) How many are genuinely shocked, appalled, disgusted etc. by the thought of the dread equestrian email, of whose contents most fourteen-year-olds have probably heard? Tijuana used to be internationally famous for such erotic vaudeville. If it is erotic.

The likelihood that the pol is amorously interested in horses is of course zero. Sheep, maybe. Horses, no.

Back to the eight-year-old. "He made a mistake, but why the severe punishment? I don't understand that," said Magdiel Burgos, Sam's dad.”

What? The child did not make a mistake. He’s freaking eight. He brought a toy to school. Since eight is too young (at this writing) to be made to snivel on camera in delicious autohumiliating, his parents per force do it for him.

The correct solution to the problem, if there were a problem, would be to tell the kid, “Hey, you aren’t supposed to bring stuff like this. Don’t, OK?” When he is a little older, he might be told that the entire scholarly (which it barely is) establishment constitutes a dry run by Darwin, which he judged a failure and meant to discard, but forgot.

There is something wrong, something fetid and cruel, about anyone who will so treat little boy. It gets stranger:

“The school board said they would admit Samuel into a correctional school for problem children who have been expelled located in Hallandale Beach.”

Oh joy! Reform school! What better way to turn him into a happy and stable boy? (Which he is anyway.) Why not Leavenworth? We could try him as an adult. I recommend solitary, to protect the other inmates. And don’t let him bring his teddy bear. He has to learn that actions have consequences.

I thrash about in search of understanding. It cometh not. Perhaps the explanation lies in physics: The stupidity of a closed system tends to remain the same or to increase. Usually, increase.

This sort of neurotic theater has gone on for years. I remember the boy expelled for pointing (so help me) a chicken finger and saying “Bang!” another for bringing plastic soldiers to school, another for drawing a picture of a soldier with a gun, another for swatting a girl on the butt on the playground. This last resulted in the calling of cops, a handcuffed kid, and compulsory psychiatric treatment instead of an admonitory, “Don’t do that again, Bobby. Do you understand me?” How does a society come to this?

I can make guesses that sound vaguely plausible. The United States is not a happy country. People waste their lives in meaningless jobs, trapped by the credit card, the mortgage, the student loan. They know they are wasting their lives. Racial anger runs high. Women resent men. Divorce screws up kids. There is the two-hour commute to the cubicle and back to the sterile box in the anonymous subdivision, the lack of influence over their lives, life from paycheck to paycheck. And anger at affirmative action, either because they suffer from it or because they need it. Life is just flat stressful.

People get spiteful, mean, like mistreated dogs. They want to make others as miserable as they secretly are themselves. So they torment a little boy. I’m going to change my phylum.

http://fredoneverything.net/ToyGun.shtml

No.255042
liberals are tyrants



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