• Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice
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[QUOTE]SMYRNA, Tenn. -For the rest of the semester, a Rutherford County elementary student has to eat lunch at the "silent table" for allegedly waving around a slice of pizza some say resembled a gun. Nicholas Taylor attends David Youree Elementary School in Smyrna, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville. School leaders say the 10-year-old threatened other students at his lunch table with a piece of pizza with bites out of it so it looked like a gun and when asked about it was initially not truthful. Nicholas' mother LeAnn calls her son's punishment "absolutely ridiculous" saying he was just playing around and never said anything derogatory or anything about shooting anyone. "The kid across the table from him said it looked like a gun so he picked it up and started shooting it in the air," she told Nashville's News 2 Investigates. Taylor said she learned of the incident when the school sent her a note saying her son was threatening other students. James Evans, spokesperson for the Rutherford County School District, said the boy isn't being punished because he had a piece of pizza shaped like a gun. He's being punished because "some students reported he was making some threatening hand gestures, that he was shooting other kids at the table and they reported it to a teacher," according to Evans. He continued, "The student didn't tell him the truth about it so he got silent lunch for six days." Evans called the punishment minor but said the message is clear. "I realize some might say we are going overboard but the principal is just trying to use an abundance of caution and send the message that we don't play about guns and it's not something we joke around about," he said. To that, Taylor said her son knows he shouldn't play with guns. "We don't have a gun in the house," she said. "He plays with light sabers. He's a big Star Wars fan." In addition to lunch at the silent table, Nicholas has spent time with the school resource officer learning about gun safety. Taylor said the school system has made it clear that if her son eats his pizza into the shape of a gun again and there is a similar occurrence, he will be suspended.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.wkrn.com/story/16325409/gun-shaped-pizza-slice"]Source[/URL]
I once was sent to the principal's office and nearly suspended back in 1st grade because I made a gun with my fingers and pretended to shoot people who were doing the same thing. Brilliance. I'm surprised this kid didn't get expelled. In other news, slow news day once again.
Seriously? This is just pathetic. "OH IT LOOKED LIKE A GUN SO HE MUST BE A MANIAC PIZZA SHOOTER".
sick fuck. life in prison isn't enough for this kid
[QUOTE=WPlayer;33846905]Seriously? This is just pathetic. "OH IT LOOKED LIKE A GUN SO HE MUST BE A MANIAC PIZZA SHOOTER".[/QUOTE] These are the same types of people who think vidya games are corrupting our minds and turning us into serial killers.
When I was a kid and someone started shooting at you with his pizza, you didn't go tell a teacher. You hastily ate your own pizza into a gun shape and shot back. I survived the great pizza wars of the 90's.
Lethal injection.
What a joke.
Electric Chair.
My nephew was suspended for holding a banana as if it were a gun while he was in the 3rd Grade.
[QUOTE=Craig Willmore;33846944]My nephew was suspended for holding a banana as if it were a gun while he was in the 3rd Grade.[/QUOTE] At least they didn't mistake it for holding it as if it were something else.
Seriously, when I was a kid, we used to club and gouge at each other with sticks, pelt each other with dirt clods and rocks, and beat each other senseless in contact sports during recess. This is retarded.
ban pizza
Hang him! I can't believe what the world is coming to these days. Dictators being lethally abolished, turmoil between drug cartels and little children pretending that their food is a gun! Oh my word I think we should form a committee for dealing with this sort of thing. [editline]22nd December 2011[/editline] Really this is fucking dumb, the people in charge need to be shot by pizza wielding maniacs so they can know what it feels like
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;33846879]I once was sent to the principal's office and nearly suspended back in 1st grade because I made a gun with my fingers and pretended to shoot people who were doing the same thing. Brilliance. I'm surprised this kid didn't get expelled. In other news, slow news day once again.[/QUOTE] Same thing happened to someone at my old school. Except they actually did get suspended. And it was highschool, not first grade.
[IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ewG4dtKAYgw/Sbd-IIJEpwI/AAAAAAAAATU/-BwLBBmU24I/s400/RSNA1104A-682_751744a.jpg[/IMG] This is what popped into my head...
I got almost got suspended once in 3rd grade for making an L-shaped lego and holding it by the short side.
Wow, they're still letting him eat lunch at the school? He's going to blow up the silent table with a salad
[img]http://www.diseaseproof.com/obesity_vest.jpg[/img] you should have seen him once he got hold of the butter. Edit: By the way, that has got to be the most humorously inappropriate obesity campaign ad I've seen.
really i brought a pocket knife to school and was suspended for like a day or something this is stupid
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;33846879]I once was sent to the principal's office and nearly suspended back in 1st grade because I made a gun with my fingers and pretended to shoot people who were doing the same thing. Brilliance. I'm surprised this kid didn't get expelled. In other news, slow news day once again.[/QUOTE] I can top that. I got a citation and noted for "sexual harassment" for sticking my tongue out at another kid in the class. A boy. In first grade.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;33847406]Wow, they're still letting him eat lunch at the school? He's going to blow up the silent table with a salad[/QUOTE] Seriously, I couldn't sleep at night if I was a parent knowing my kid was going to the same school as this nut.
[QUOTE=Roof;33847451]really i brought a pocket knife to school and was suspended for like a day or something this is stupid[/QUOTE] In my school system, that's ground for instant expulsion. No, seriously, it happened to someone I know.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;33847442][img]http://www.diseaseproof.com/obesity_vest.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] oh wow.
[QUOTE]For the rest of the semester, a Rutherford County elementary student has to eat lunch at the "silent table" for allegedly waving around a slice of pizza some say resembled a gun.[/QUOTE] I'd say forcing a child who is still developing personality wise to not sit with his peers at a school lunch table is more damaging then kids pretending they are cowboys with pizza.
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;33847471]In my school system, that's ground for instant expulsion. No, seriously, it happened to someone I know.[/QUOTE] it was elementary
[QUOTE=NoDachi;33847442][img]http://www.diseaseproof.com/obesity_vest.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] I see the Norwegians are going to extreme methods to protect their way of life.
well, one thing we have to learn from this is that we must not wave gun-shaped vegetables around people :v:
Zero tolerance is the most retarded policy I've ever seen or heard of.
Damn Pizza gun, you scary But seriously, why punish a kid with a Pizza gun when you could of busted the rich kids that are doing lines of cocaine in the back?
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