Congrats Virginia

[grizzaholic]

So much for common sense



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A 7-year-old boy, who was suspended for two days after playing a game of make-believe with his friend, returned to school on Wednesday.

On Friday, Christopher Marshall, a second grader at Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Virginia and his classmate were playing with their pencils, pointing them at each other and making machine gun noises when a concerned teacher pulled them into the principals' office.

Wendy immediately picked up her son from school and when she got there, the principal explained that due to the school's zero tolerance policy against weapons or anything that resembles a weapon, Christopher would be suspended on Monday and Tuesday, allowed to return on Wednesday. Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for Suffolk Public Schools could not be reached for comment but according to a report from Fox43 she said, "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made" and that "Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community. Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day." According to the Suffolk News-Herald, the school had received hundreds of emails and on one day fielded about 75 phone calls per hour regarding the matter. Bradshaw wrote in an email to the paper that the reaction to the incident was overwhelming. “Opinions were very strong and mean-spirited, and often included abusive language and profanity.”

[dbackjon]

757

[grizzaholic]

757

What does iCarly have to do with this conversation?

[HI54UNI]

So much for common sense



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A 7-year-old boy, who was suspended for two days after playing a game of make-believe with his friend, returned to school on Wednesday.

On Friday, Christopher Marshall, a second grader at Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Virginia and his classmate were playing with their pencils, pointing them at each other and making machine gun noises when a concerned teacher pulled them into the principals' office.

Wendy immediately picked up her son from school and when she got there, the principal explained that due to the school's zero tolerance policy against weapons or anything that resembles a weapon, Christopher would be suspended on Monday and Tuesday, allowed to return on Wednesday. Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for Suffolk Public Schools could not be reached for comment but according to a report from Fox43 she said, "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made" and that "Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community. Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day." According to the Suffolk News-Herald, the school had received hundreds of emails and on one day fielded about 75 phone calls per hour regarding the matter. Bradshaw wrote in an email to the paper that the reaction to the incident was overwhelming. “Opinions were very strong and mean-spirited, and often included abusive language and profanity.”

Then don't do stupid things like suspend a 7 year old for pretending a pencil is a gun.

And these same dumbasses are in charge of teaching our kids.

[Ibanez]

That's stupid.

So it this:

The School of the Arts senior who used the “n word” in a tweet about a black classmate won’t be able to go to the prom or walk with her class on graduation day.

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[TheDancinMonarch]

The Suffolk School Board is elected. So we can say that the same electorate that put them in office gave Barack Obama 57.01% of the vote in 2012. While I agree that the suspension decision completely lacked common sense, let's point the finger of blame in the correct direction.

[JohnStOnge]

Geeze am I glad that I was a kid during the 1960s. None of this crap. No child car seats. No seat belt laws at all. No stupid looking pointy bicycle helmets. Candy, pastry, and soda machines in school. Actual rough housing. Sharpening pieces of bamboo and using them as spears to throw at other kids. Also the thing where we'd sharpen both ends of a piece of bamboo maybe a foot long so it'd stick if either end hit. Making dust bombs where we'd put very fine dust in newspaper and bind it up with newspaper strips so that when we'd throw it at their tree house it'd inundate it with dust and they'd come out choking and coughing. Jumping off the roof of the house. So on and so forth.

Ok. So we didn't have computers, cable TV, and video games. We had like 4 broadcast channels and whenever we change channels somebody would have to go outside and turn the antenna.

But, on balance, I am SO glad I got to be a kid back then instead of now. I mean, why even BE a kid nowadays?

BTW the dust bombs were MY idea. I invented them.