What is wrong with US Schools? Boy who held pencil like gun suspended - Polidicks

[quote] SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises. Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing with another student in class Friday, when the teacher at Driver Elementary asked them to stop pointing pencils at each other. [/quote] [url]http://www.fox43tv.com/dpps/news/local/boy-who-held-pencil-like-gun-suspended_6109580[/url] Jesus

I used to do this all the time in elementary wtf. I think I just died inside [quote]"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. 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.[/quote]

wake up sheeple

0 tolerance laws are fucking retarded, this isn't anything new.

The first bit really irks me. "School has "zero tolerance" weapons policy"

Thank god no one was hurt.

They are just playing with other student

When I went to school teachers pointed pencils at students like every day.

[QUOTE=The golden;40567525]When are US schools going to actually start acting like education centers and not juvenile detention facilities?[/QUOTE] The highschool I went to was practically a converted prison. No windows anywhere and walls made of cinderblocks.

[quote]"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." [/quote] Only eight years old and already talking about drive bys!

thank god we showed that kid the error of his ways before he became a mass murderer

I used to build toy guns out of little blocks that snapped together in my younger years.

[QUOTE=Boxbot219;40567587]The highschool I went to was practically a converted prison. No windows anywhere and walls made of cinderblocks.[/QUOTE] No, it was just an old style school. Remember, the classrooms used to have no walls due to a stupid new age schooling idea. Also, yo.

Thank god they suspended him, someone could have gotten killed by those imagination bullets.

[QUOTE=OvB;40567615]I used to build toy guns out of little blocks that snapped together in my younger years.[/QUOTE] Yeah we did this in school and the teachers told us to stop so we just did it more sneakily by putting on block silencers. We were some operator 4th graders I'll tell you what.

[QUOTE=Panda X;40567561]The first bit really irks me. "School has "zero tolerance" weapons policy"[/QUOTE] I got in deep shit once for telling the Principal that i had zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies.

[QUOTE=Samoht;40567563]Thank god no one was hurt.[/QUOTE] Yeah, good to see he finally decided to stop a major massacre for once.

The only thing you're doing is making the children think that you and everything are stupid. "Dad, why was I suspended?" "Well, you pointed a pencil at your friend and made gun sounds while playing." "But why would I get suspended for that? We were just playing." "Well, you see, ever since some school shootings a few years ago and recently, schools and the people in charge of them are terrified of any possible things related guns. They have a policy called "zero tolerance" which means pretending to point a gun is treated the same as pointing a real gun" "them teachers be fuckin' pussies dad"

[quote]"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."[/quote] That's bad motherfucking parenting. We aren't naturally born fearing mass shootings and murder. Somebody stuffs it into their little minds and don't blame the media completely for their sensationalist dirty laundry.

Wow, that sounds tense, they're lucky someone wasn't killed. I did that shit all the time in school and you know what happened? Fucking nothing, because apparently between 2003 and today people went completely insane.

[quote]"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."[/quote] Man, when I was a kid making gun gestures I just pretended I was in a video game or something. I obviously knew that life isn't a video game, I wasn't retarded. But these people seem to think otherwise.

I drew plenty of guns in school and nothing happened. Then again, that was high school. Middle school we had 'zero tolerance' and a soccer mom principal.

Lets ban schools so something this horrendous never happens again.

Seriously, in kindergarten the teacher told us to pretend to slit the throats of sleeping enemy soldiers on other classmates to show us some battle.

School policies are so idiotic. I remember my second year of highschool I got reprimanded by the principal for miming firing a weapon, wasn't holding anything, or aiming at anyone, just doing the motions with a friend, and the teacher sent me to the principal, and took witness statements from the rest of the class for that. That same year a junior got the exact same punishment for raping a girl in the auditorium, you have no idea how much I wish I was kidding. Highschools really need to be more in touch with reality.

Speaking of dumb rules and laws, a few years ago, there was a law passed in my state that made out of school contact from student to teacher illegal, and it was rewritten before it took effect to make it illegal to have "online" contact with a teacher to a student and vice versa. This was all in the interests of protecting the students, all because of a handful of cases of teachers fucking their students.

[QUOTE=zombojoe;40567542]I used to do this all the time in elementary wtf. I think I just died inside[/QUOTE] zero tolerance when it comes to weapons nigga a pencil ain't a weapon, where the hell in the world is a writing apparatus considered a weapon? prison?

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40567736]zero tolerance when it comes to weapons nigga a pencil ain't a weapon, where the hell in the world is a writing apparatus considered a weapon? prison?[/QUOTE] well... [t]http://i.imgur.com/y7Id1pP.jpg[/t] we can imagine that a pencil is somewhat as mighty as a sword

I remember there being a lot of news stories like this for a while after Columbine happened. And to think I thought schools might've lightened up since then.

[QUOTE=zombojoe;40567542]I used to do this all the time in elementary wtf. I think I just died inside[/QUOTE] Are they really implying gun noises makes it more threatening