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

[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] My neighbor called the police on me because he thought I threw a stick in his yard.[sp]I didn't.[/sp]

[QUOTE=zeromancer;43270063]Pretty sure that's a .22 HATSAN Air Rifle. Authetic Looking Air Rifle because it IS an air rifle.[/QUOTE] .. yes? I say authentic looking because it looks like a real gun.

[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] And then there are some school administrators who are legitimately morons. I used to have a principal who wanted things to be run [I]his[/I] way because he was essentially a control freak on a power trip. He would deny people permission to do the most harmless things because "that's not the way it works around here". He had his tentacles wrapped around the goddamn place, it was his own little corner of the world in which he was its lord.

When i was a kid we used to spend recess playing theif and cops. Some of us even took old hats, cut holes in them and pulled themover our faces for makeshift bandit-masks. We then proceeded to blow eachothers brains out using various imaginary machine guns and rocket launchers.

[QUOTE=Katska;43270066]One time, my U.S. History teacher called up the office because he was concerned that I had said that Hitler wasn't actually such a bad artist. Luckily, nobody up there gave a shit.[/QUOTE] His Volkswagen sketch on a napkin was pretty good, I'd [img] it but I don't really want hitler.org in my NSA surveillance file.

I'm so unnerved by the name Johnny Jones.

In the construction class we had in school as a part of engineering preperations, we were handed boxcutters by the teacher for cutting the cardboard we used.

Man, I've taught kids archery myself at school. Then again, my boss ain't a complete fucktard and actually knows how to run his school very nicely, even acting on behalf of the teachers and students in a recent political fight where he could've had quite some personal gain by doing the opposite.

I swear it's like the teachers nowadays never even had a childhood......i used to play stuff like robin hood and everything as a kid, it's called having a fucking imagination.

I got a major bollocking once for pointing my finger out and clicking my tongue at my friend because it was a 'violent gesture'.

Man, when I was like 9 years old, me and my friends would pretend we're in the winter war. We'd just run from the forest to the schoolyard and shoot everybody with our invisible guns. The teachers just smiled at us.

[QUOTE=Saturn V;43270727]Man, when I was like 9 years old, me and my friends would pretend we're in the winter war. We'd just run from the forest to the schoolyard and shoot everybody with our invisible guns. The teachers just smiled at us.[/QUOTE] "Good, Good. The new generation is learning. Soon we will be able to give the Russians what for"

To be honest, the title is a bit misleading - it's not imaginary, it's just a fake bow and arrow. You'd at least get a detention for doing that in my old school.

Meanwhile, school receptions have panic buttons because of the risk of a school shooting. How fucking backwards does it get

[QUOTE=paul simon;43269903]Oh another thing. The US is sort of contradictory in this, because big parts of the place does revolve a lot around guns and gun rights. Many kids will grow up with parents that are gun enthusiasts, and hear that everyone supports guns etc. But then they come to school, and then they're expected not to mimick or acknowledge the fact that they grew up with guns being a part of their life. Kids learn by mimicking, but now it's suddenly wrong because of paranoid schools.[/QUOTE] I don't think children really care that much about gun rights or see them as very important. Most of them generally never go near any and only use toy guns or see them in the media.

the US sounds more and more like a shit place to grow up. Bullying allowed in schools, dumb shit like this supressing kids imaginations etc

[QUOTE=KillerLUA;43271320]To be honest, the title is a bit misleading - it's not imaginary, it's just a fake bow and arrow. You'd at least get a detention for doing that in my old school.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of a 10-year-old boy who was suspended under a school zero tolerance policy for shooting an imaginary “arrow” at a fellow classmate, using nothing more than his hands and his imagination."[/QUOTE] It doesn't seem like it.

I remember pretend sword fighting with twigs with friends in primary school. We'd get into trees and whatnot, teachers said it was fine as long as we didn't climb too high, never did. Odds are doing this would get you expelled for being "dangerous". The fuck?

[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] Reminds me of that teacher who told us the national education ministry ordered them to stop using red pencils for correction of copies because red looked too negative, instead they had to use green or blue. The teacher had such a hard time finishing his sentence that he burst into uncontrolled laughter by the end of it.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;43271607]Reminds me of that teacher who told us the national education ministry ordered them to stop using red pencils for correction of copies because red looked too negative, instead they had to use green or blue. The teacher had such a hard time finishing his sentence that he burst into uncontrolled laughter by the end of it.[/QUOTE] Next thing will be that they get rid of marks all together because bad ones lead to negative feelings.

[QUOTE=SuddenImpact;43271721]Next thing will be that they get rid of marks all together because bad ones lead to negative feelings.[/QUOTE] ... yeah. That's actually under debate right now.

So much shit has changed in the last ten years.... This is a bit random, but I'm remind of a type in elementary school (probably 4-5th grade) where we had a show put on for us during an assembly. The actors wanted to get some of us involved, and one of the things they had us do was make a bow and arrow gesture. Seriously, times have seriously changed....I suppose I shouldn't be surprised if my own elementary school has changed to be stricter with these things now. We gotta let kids be kids. [editline]22nd December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=SuddenImpact;43271721]Next thing will be that they get rid of marks all together because bad ones lead to negative feelings.[/QUOTE] Well in my elementary school, we didn't receive any letter grades until 3rd grade. Before that it was just checks, either with a + or -.

This summed up in one pic: [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/k5941.png[/img]

in elementary school my friends and i would pretend to hit each other with imaginary swords and in middle school we would go to the far end of the field next to the playground which was known as the "no-rules zone" because you could do pretty much anything and get away with it because the teachers didn't ever give enough of a shit to jog out 100 yards to tell kids to stop being stupid. the one time i ever saw a teacher out there is because there was a mob of kids (me included) pretending to kick this one kid on the ground. he was laughing and shit and nobody was touching him very hard, but this redneck woman driving by on the road next to the fence stopped and told us to "knock that shit off." they had a shotgun hanging in their truck in full view, so someone told one of the teachers who sprinted over and started arguing with them. by that time the group had dispersed and we started playing wallball with a basketball [sp]basically dodgeball except only one person is throwing and everyone else is lined up against a concrete wall and needs to dodge the ball. each person who gets hit joins the thrower.[/sp]

This wouldn't have happened if the teachers were allowed to carry imaginary guns!

When I was in middle school, there was this play, and one of the child actor was a cop, so he brought a fake gun with him to complete the costume. If that happened today, he'd probably be instantly expelled. *slow clap*

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;43271732]... yeah. That's actually under debate right now.[/QUOTE] Who the fuck is running your education system?

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;43271732]... yeah. That's actually under debate right now.[/QUOTE] What the hell...

death penalty

Good for him, that imaginary bow could really have hurted someone.