US: Boy "fires" imaginary bow and arrow during school. Gets suspended and now faces expulsion due to - Polidicks

[URL="http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/09/boy-10-suspended-from-school-for-firing-imaginary-bow-and-arrow-4223620/"]http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/09/boy-10...arrow-4223620/[/URL] [quote]A ten-year-old boy has reportedly been suspended from school after he ‘fired’ an imaginary bow and arrow at another pupil. Johnny Jones, a fifth grader at South Eastern Middle School in Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania, is said to have been suspended for one day after making the gesture and [B]now faces expulsion[/B]. [URL="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/rutherford_institute_defends_10_year_old_suspended_for_shooting_imaginary_a"]According to the Rutherford Institute[/URL], which is defending the youngster, Johnny was accused of[B] breaching the school’s regulations on using weapons[/B], even though the bow and arrow were not real. [B]He was reprimanded after the girl he ‘fired’ the bow at notified a teacher[/B]. [/quote] South Eastern Middle School is feeling safer already

oh come on

So is this just going to be a common occurrence in US schools from now on? Denying education because a kid was playing pretend?

Okay, are they retarded or something?

[QUOTE=cartman300;43266316]Okay, are they retarded or something?[/QUOTE] Yes. Public grade schools have a heavy tendency to be administrated by complete morons, I've noticed. I worked in the library when I was in high school and we were told that the superintendent wanted us to change the sign that said "library is closed after 3:30pm" and change it to "library is open until 3:30pm" because she thought that the word closed was too negative and unwelcoming to students. Seriously. They thought people would think "I'd like to go to the library, oh wait it says closed after 3:30, that's kinda negative, I don't have any motivation anymore."

How the fuck does that count as breaching the policy on weapons if it was imaginary? Can they expel somebody for doing imaginary heroin with a lead pencil? Everytime I read stories like these I get greatly worried that people as dumb as the administrators are running the school.

I guess the next thing they're going to say is that my iphone is illigal because someone played Grand theft auto or some other Fps that is on mobile.. :pwn:

[QUOTE=Omali;43266335] "library is closed after 3:30pm" and change it to "library is open until 3:30pm" because she thought that the word closed was too negative and unwelcoming to students. Seriously. They thought people would think "I'd like to go to the library, oh wait it says closed after 3:30, that's kinda negative, I don't have any motivation anymore."[/QUOTE] [b]Fucking LOL[/B] that's bloody pathetic

[QUOTE=coolgame8013;43266369]I guess the next thing they're going to say is that my iphone is illigal because someone played Grand theft auto or some other Fps that is on mobile.. :pwn:[/QUOTE] No, you'll get expelled because you could theoretically point it at someone like a space gun from Star Trek and go "pow pow."

suspension is really not a huge deal and not worth any controversy but expulsion would be a bit much unless there's more to this story ie the kid has been threatening the other student or something

This shit never ceases to amaze me. I'm just so full of what. I really hope someday some parents will sue the school that does this again and teach them a lesson.

I don't even think the onion makes up shit like this

[QUOTE=Omali;43266335]Yes. Public grade schools have a heavy tendency to be administrated by complete morons, I've noticed. I worked in the library when I was in high school and we were told that the superintendent wanted us to change the sign that said "library is closed after 3:30pm" and change it to "library is open until 3:30pm" because she thought that the word closed was too negative and unwelcoming to students. Seriously. They thought people would think "I'd like to go to the library, oh wait it says closed after 3:30, that's kinda negative, I don't have any motivation anymore."[/QUOTE] i don't understand why wanting to simply change a sign makes someone a moron unnecessary, maybe, but how does that make them a moron? i've had my fair share of bad experiences with school administrators but when you're on the other side looking back, most teachers and administrators are actually pretty good people that've worked hard. you just don't see it when all you think about is the times you were reprimanded.

ban walking the swinging arm movements resemble a flail

good, he could have killed someone's imaginary friend with that thing

[QUOTE=Gwoodman;43266425]ban walking the swinging arm movements resemble a flail[/QUOTE] avatar fits...

Reminds me of the time I was suspended from elementary school for practicing one of my Taekwando forms in an open area of the field without anybody around me.

Kids should start accusing the school staff of stabbing "imaginary knives" at them if they ever get pointed at. That'll teach 'em.

Sometime next year: [quote]Kindergartener is suspended from school. Sources say that the boy told his teacher "I need go home, I made boom boom", which the teacher took as a bomb threat. The suspension will not be reversed despite clarification from the parents that the boy used "boom boom" to signify that he had a bathroom accident.[/quote]

Im so glad I left school while I was in highschool. who ned education? I no I dont. But really this is the stupidest thing I have ever read. I used to do shit like that all the time in school.

This actually remind me of this one time back in middle school how the school police officer threaten to call the FBI on me and have me deported etc because I made paper boats in class and said they were gonna invade the country. No seriously, they sent me to the main office with all the administrators and threaten me. Scared the shit out of me. I wish I knew my rights back then.

phew, glad they handled the situation quickly or else that girl could have gotten some serious injuries

[QUOTE=Gatsby;43266346]How the fuck does that count as breaching the policy on weapons if it was imaginary? Can they expel somebody for doing imaginary heroin with a lead pencil? Everytime I read stories like these I get greatly worried that people as dumb as the administrators are running the school.[/QUOTE] I remember I used mechanical pencils to imagine myself injecting stuff in my arm. My brother showed me it. Turned out he later became a drug addict. :v:

[QUOTE=Gatsby;43266477]This actually remind me of this one time back in middle school how the school police officer threaten to call the FBI on me and have me deported etc because I made paper boats in class and said they were gonna invade the country. No seriously, they sent me to the main office with all the administrators and threaten me. Scared the shit out of me. I wish I knew my rights back then.[/QUOTE] You can't be serious...

[quote] The incident took place the week of October 14th, when fifth grader Johnny Jones asked his teacher for a pencil during class. Jones walked to the front of the classroom to retrieve the pencil, and during his walk back to his seat, a classmate and friend of Johnny’s held his folder like an imaginary gun and “shot” at Johnny. Johnny playfully used his hands to draw the bowstrings on a completely imaginary “bow” and “shot” an arrow back. Seeing this, another girl in the class reported to the teacher that the boys were shooting at each other. The teacher took both Johnny and the other boy into the hall and lectured them about disruption.[/quote] These things are often sensationalized (muh nanny state) and I am guessing it might be more due to the two kids being annoying and disruptive in class and the girl saying "the boys are shooting each other" probably got misinterpreted. The source always makes me giggle. [quote]“The Rutherford Institute has been called on to intervene in hundreds of cases like this involving young people who were suspended, expelled, and even arrested for violating school zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior and punish all offenses severely, no matter how minor or non-threatening the so-called infraction may have been,” said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State.[/quote] Grasping any chance possible to peddle your dull book sir, you even included an amazon link directly in your own articles.

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;43266417]i don't understand why wanting to simply change a sign makes someone a moron unnecessary, maybe, but how does that make them a moron? i've had my fair share of bad experiences with school administrators but when you're on the other side looking back, most teachers and administrators are actually pretty good people that've worked hard. you just don't see it when all you think about is the times you were reprimanded.[/QUOTE] Because there is a lack of basic common sense with a lot of these principals/vice principals that they're so bent up on handing out punishments that they don't handle the situation, either out of ignorance or incompetence. Someone beats you up? Both of you are suspended, even if you didn't fight back, because zero tolerance. Point a banana at someone and go "pow?" Suspended for brandishing a weapon. Meanwhile they ignore the real problem bullies who harass and beat up other students to the point of suicide, and then claim that they "weren't aware of the situation." My school ran out of copy paper in October my Junior year because they spent the money on new lights so the football team could practice at night. No one in charge saw any problems with that. That said, I had detention once in high school and it was for not turning in a piece of homework. Otherwise I never got in trouble.

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;43266396]suspension is really not a huge deal and not worth any controversy but expulsion would be a bit much unless there's more to this story ie the kid has been threatening the other student or something[/QUOTE] Suspension is a big deal. A lot of schools only allow a certain amount of days to be missed or they will flunk you for the grade in one way or another. A suspension is an unexcused absence, and in 99% of schools the school work for those days cannot be made up either, so you also take a 0 for that day's assignments and homework. (If it's an Out of school suspension, which I would think this would be considering the lengths they're going to) The kid is also facing expulsion, which is a permanent mark on the record, an automatic fail for the year Think of the types of people that would do this. Flakey over sensitive soft dunces that shouldn't be allowed in a work place, and should instead just stay home

[QUOTE=Gatsby;43266477]This actually remind me of this one time back in middle school how the school police officer threaten to call the FBI on me and have me deported etc because I made paper boats in class and said they were gonna invade the country. No seriously, they sent me to the main office with all the administrators and threaten me. Scared the shit out of me. I wish I knew my rights back then.[/QUOTE] are you actually an immigrant... or did they threaten to deport a kid who was born in U.S?

[QUOTE=PredGD;43266490]phew, glad they handled the situation quickly or else that girl could have gotten some serious injuries[/QUOTE] Yeah I know right? Hes a level 58 Hunter in WoW. This video game has taught him how to aim a bow! Also a gun because it's a video game and all video games teach you to kill.

[QUOTE=DeliNelly;43266502]You can't be serious...[/QUOTE] I wish I wasn't, some kids found out and started calling me a terrorist and shit the rest of middle school + freshmen year. All because of some wiggled ass police officer and a bitch teacher(who apparently gotten scared and reported the incident). Fucking assholes man