It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => The "Educators" => Topic started by: Pandora on May 07, 2013, 05:47:45 PM
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... and making shooting noises. (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/07/zero-tolerance-virginia-school-strikes-blow-for-gun-safety-by-suspending-five-year-old-for-using-a-pencil-or-something/)
“When I asked him about it, he said, ‘Well I was being a Marine and the other guy was being a bad guy,’” said Paul Marshall, the boy’s father. “It’s as simple as that.”
Christopher’s father was a Marine for many years. He thinks school leaders overreacted.
... The Suffolk school system has a "zero tolerance policy" when it comes to weapons. And, Bradshaw admits, that policy has tightened up in recent years because of widely publicized school shootings.
“A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made,” said Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for Suffolk Public Schools…
“Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community,” said Bradshaw. “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.”
::saywhat::
A pencil is not a weapon, neither is a Pop Tart nor a "gun shaped" piece of paper. This crap has got to stop.
Accounts differ (http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/suffolk/boy-who-held-pencil-like-gun-suspended) as to the boys' ages -- some say five years old, others seven -- and HotAir omits the fact of the suspension of the other boy.
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“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.”
Then it's high time that they turn the damned boob-toob off and learn. I'd be happy to teach 'em - I killed many an injun in my time (was kilt, too!).
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What them boys didn't understand is that pencils are used for spears, arrows or ray guns. For a pistol you need a bigger stick, preferably one with a fork to use as a grip.
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Doesn't anybody make rubberbinder guns anymore and shoot paperclips at each other? ::whatgives::
(Those things could hurt too!)
Now, if they used those pencils as phallic symbols and acted out... ::dueling:: OK, that's enough of that! ::oldman::
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Well since "we" as a society have apparently determined that there can be no risk, no danger, and nothing potentially offensive in existence, why don't we just cut the BS and go ahead put everyone into induced comas and stored warehouse-style? Climate controlled, special UV lights to kill any infectious microorganisms, breathing and feeding tubes, no risk from other nearby humans being conscious, what's not to love?
I guess that movie "Coma" was ahead of its time.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E2uWeSxRO60/TEBlGUeCulI/AAAAAAAAG8w/TfBEzj9lpTQ/s1600/Coma5.jpg)
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I can hardly stand it anymore. How can adults behave this way? Every time I see another story like this, all I can think is there is no way to share a country with these people. I want them gone, to the very last one.
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A half-century ago this would have be impermissible, all of it,
half century ago Bill Ayers was a (virtual) baby boomer.
If conservatives win the mantel that's how long it will take
to turn it around again. Or as a fellow told me, you become
a member of this community when the last person who remembers
you moved here dies.
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Get them before they get us, simple as that.
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“Kids don’t think about ‘Cowboys and Indians’ anymore, .......
How about if we teach them about cowboys and muslims? ::evilbat::
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They're using this tactic to make sure the children grow up to never ever look at a gun again.But if the parents sue the livin crap out of everybody involved and drag all of them though the mud and people lose jobs they will stop this dead in it's tracks.
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Yep. That go alone to get along crap is shi shoes in the gearworks.
They must be slapped bug eyed to get their attention then they must be
made to feel it. They must be made to feel it because the are incapable
of thinking it through. They are adult children that do not comprehend
the word NO. They have no comprehension of property and think Ben
Franklin's words "Mind your business" are asinine.