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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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this is just retarded:
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Christan Morales says her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures.
But the hat ran afoul of the district's no-weapons policy because the toy soldiers were carrying tiny weapons.
"His teacher called and said it wasn't appropriate because it had guns," Morales said.
Morales' 8-year-old son, David, was assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would met their pen pals from another school. She and her son came up with an idea to add patriotic decorations to a camouflage hat.
Earlier this week, the Tiogue School in Coventry sent the cap home with David at the end of the day after concluding it violated a zero-tolerance policy for weapons.
The principal told the family that the hat would be fine if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn't have any, according to Superintendent Kenneth R. Di Pietro.
Morales said the family had only one Army figure without a weapon (he was carrying binoculars), so David wore a plain baseball cap on the day of the visit.
"Nothing was being done to limit patriotism, creativity, other than find an alternative to a weapon," Di Pietro said.
The district does not allow images of weapons or drugs on clothing. For example, a student would not be permitted to wear a shirt with a picture of a marijuana leaf on it, the superintendent said.
The principal "wasn't denying the patriotism," he said. "That just is the wrong and unfair image of one of our finest principals."
Morales said her son was inspired to honor the military after striking up a friendship last summer with a neighbor in the Army.
Banning the hat "sent the wrong message to the kids, because it wasn't in any way to cause any harm to anyone," she said. "You're talking about Army men. This wasn't about guns." |
http://current.com/news/92496420_toy-soldiers-run-afoul-of-schools-weapons-ban.htm
http://www.optimum.net/News/AP/Article?fmId=5128267
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Drew Linky
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That's... completely retarded. I have some respect for zero-tolerance, but this is fucking ridiculous. What are they going to do next, ban pants because you could be hiding shit in them?
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i'll_bite_your_ear
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Joined: Jun 09 2010
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does playing with a toy gun in childage raise your willingless to use one when you are grown up? acutally a good question for wich a have no answer...
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TheThunderThief
Joined: Jun 07 2009
Location: Ditka's Moustache
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Common sense, where did it go?
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anorexorcist
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That's fucking stupid.
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This reminds me of something I heard a while ago
"20 years ago, kid goes hunting before school, leaves gun in his truck and leaves truck in the parking lot. Principal strolls by and sees the gun, calls the student out, kid and principal compare guns and go hunting after school.
today, kid goes hunting before school, leaves gun in his truck and leaves truck in the parking lot. Principal strolls by and sees the gun, calls the student out with a police escort, kid gets arrested, goes to prison, never sees truck or gun again"
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Common sense is fleeting
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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Christ...I would fucking HATE to be a kid in today's society. Sure it was bad enough for us to have toy guns that had those orange things on the end, but that's nothing compared to now. Where did all the fun go?
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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What about that kid who got suspended for pointing a chicken strip at a teacher and saying BANG YOUR DEAD! He was like 6 years old. 
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
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God...I just had a moment where everything went white as the only emotion manifestable was sheer rage.
Just....ugh.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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I am so confused.
Why would anyone make a big deal about this?
What person looks at a hat with plastic army men on it and says "This violates a gun policy at the school"
I mean... a person would really have to have a pole shoved so far up their ass to be that fucking sensitive.
I'm trying to determine if this is dumber than the court that released those voter's names...
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aeonic
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I'm with you, Dodds. The level of hyper reactivity in our society towards, well, pretty much anything, it's just astounding. Next thing you know, they'll stop teaching anything about Japan in history classes because there's a 'gun' in 'shogun', or they'll start cutting sports out because you 'shoot' a basketball. The people who made this into an issue at that school should be publicly beaten and then fined for existing and sucking so much.
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Heh Aeonic's post reminded me of how they made it so we couldn't play dodgeball (not sure why...I think it had something to do with violence associated with the name) in my school district.
All my gym teachers got around it by calling it by a different name
...but we (all the kids in my gym class) saw through it and still referred to it as dodgeball
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Atma
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This reminds me of something I heard a while ago
"20 years ago, kid goes hunting before school, leaves gun in his truck and leaves truck in the parking lot. Principal strolls by and sees the gun, calls the student out, kid and principal compare guns and go hunting after school.
today, kid goes hunting before school, leaves gun in his truck and leaves truck in the parking lot. Principal strolls by and sees the gun, calls the student out with a police escort, kid gets arrested, goes to prison, never sees truck or gun again"
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
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This reminded me of a news story from not too long ago,
A straight "A" Highschool student whos never had any record of trouble was arrested for bringing a weapon on school property.
The weapon? A Steak knife that was under her passenger seat.
The girl and her family had just moved, and they used her car as well as her parents to load items back and forth, and just by some bad luck, a steak knife fell under her seat. Enough of it was showing out that when the principal walked by, the sun reflected off the blade and caught his attention.
They seriously arrested that girl over it and pressed charges. Even after the parents showed proof that they had just moved.
Re-Fucking-Diculous.
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