Article Come on people zero tolerance does not work. The gun was the kind made of flexible plastic (you know squish the sides to suck the water up) with out a trigger and orange. I....…but…...it.....was…....what…… I just can’t find the words!
read the comments on the article Wow, I just saw the most retarded thing. One of the guys posted some paragraphs from his son's school handbook, and under the section titled "public displays of affection" you can get suspended for up to 180 days for holding hands =\ As it turns out his suspension has been overturned and the district will remove the incident from his school record. http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/9895283/detail.html Edit: Oh noes! They have plastic knives in the canteen, quick, suspend everyone eating lunch!
Please can someone explain to me how a water pistol is going to hurt someone. As I dont see it as anything other than safe. So its not against safety rules.
^ They don't make their own decisions, they fill out paper work all the offenses, they just tick boxes. The principle ticked the box under class IV which is for students who brings in items, which may reasonably be mistaken for, or bear a resemblance to any of the aforementioned (“look alike weapons”) and they may be treated as “dangerous weapons” for the purpose of this policy. Unforutantly it bears resemblance to a gun, so, yeah.
I thought all americans had the right to have firearms! What is this system you crazy people are running? All or ridiculous? I fail to see how americans who claim there freedom above all is there most important thing can repeatadly come up with such retarded news. What happens if you draw a gun on a piece of paper, cut it out and start pointing it at people ? :S HOLY **** BATMAN - CALL THE FBI! edit: if that tickbox thing is correct then that is yet another completele retarded example on behalf of... A) the education dept. B) the person who decided a plastic water gun was worth one.
Even ticking boxes relies on the judgement and discretion of the ticker. "Simulated weapon" can be interpreted in several ways. It could be argued that a day-glo orange plastic squirt gun simulates a real weapon because its shape is designed to resemble that of a gun. On the other hand, how many guns do you know that are day-glo orange and made of soft plastic? In that respect, considerable effort seems to have been made by the manufacturer to not make it look like a real gun, but like the toy it is. So depending on your common sense, you could tick the box "Not a simulated weapon" based on the fact that you could not, in all reasonablility, go stick up a bank with this toy. Nor would any police officer, upon spotting a six-year old with this toy, feel compelled to cordon off the area and draw his gun. Rules are followed by fools, but are guidance to the wise.
And I bet if he'd squirted tapwater in some other kid's eye the parents would have sued the school for the emotional trauma done to their little princess. But suppose the toy was filled with ammonia or some other noxious substance like these liquids that blow up planes? Tawann? Sounds foreign, Gitmo the terrorist!
Well ya know what me and my friend found out from one of our funny teachesr which we like since he's nice and kind anyay that one of his twins (sons) had a stick or something poked into his ear rupturing it or something, basically one side deaf. The school was like ok wtf 1 day suspension for the guy who did it, he couldn't believe it he was teaching in that school and his kids went there and someone did that to him, and all they get is 1 day, other people get a week suspensions for harming themself eg. smoking behind the canteen, wtf? Stupid systems tbh.
Squirt guns in school are damn irritating, clip him round the ear and send him home for the day, don't class the poor kid as a weapon toting threat.
Gun-like hysteria seems to be everywhere now. I was watching the national scottish news the other day, and seeing this report of a child who'd "taken a gun to school" and had "shot muptiple pupils several times" over "several periods during the day". Up untill this point I was thinking it was a school shooting, and a reasonably bad one by the sounds of it, then they unveiled it was a lower powered BB gun, this is the sort of thing that bounces of cardboard. They still arrested and expelled the kid though. I imagine the 6 year old in this story will have been suspended and will be watched as a likely risk for someone who's gonna shoot up a school, because obviously any kid who takes a water pistol into school wants to murder his classmates.
A little perspective. I have a six year old who started first grade this year and he thankfully has a great teacher that uses common sense (cough, I know this is not allowed in this post 9/11, litigious, police state we now live in). He wanted to take a screwdriver to his school to fix an electronic toy in his classroom (the kid is gifted, I swear!). He had to get permission from the school board to bring a stupid screwdriver to school! Since 9/11, any pointy sharp object can be considered a weapon. I mean we are talking a 5 inch Phillips screwdriver. If he was caught with it in his pockets without having permission he could have been suspended. I remember getting caught in high school with a butterfly knife. They took it away and told me if I wanted it back I would have to have my parents come to school and ask for it back. I just went and bought another; heck they were only $3.00. If this happened today, they probably would have brought in the SWAT team and locked me up for a long time. Common sense is no longer allowed, appreciated, or even taught. Think first, bulls**t, don’t think, just follow the rules, and don’t question the logic or you’re screwed.
this is impossible, there is no way anyone can be so stupid. ow i forgot, they are human and American...... bah. no ofence for those that are American and smart.
Sorry, but any toy that can fire a BB several feet can do serious damage to an eye at shorter range. Let's not confuse over-reaction by staff in one case with idiot behaviour by a pupil in another.
About as much damage a finger poked into the same eye could do. I agree it was an idiot thing to do, but my point was to illustrate the stupidity and hysteria with which things are being treated now.
Seems like, most of the time people are stupid. Increasing stupidity is a problem, and we should get rid of it.
hmmm i just remembered..... i have a swiss knife in my pocket since i was 12.... or less..... used it in school and no one says anything...... and now i take 3 types of multitools to Uni and use them.... they have saved my ass sometimes... and no one says anything..... am i the only one?
If you'd run round the classroom waving it in other children's faces the teacher might have made a comment. Or canned your ass.
Its not our way of thinking, everything now is rulled by Health and Safety, or GreenPeace, or whatever else stupid there is. I try and be sensible when i go to college, so i do my bit by not buying a Dell Laptop that could Explode And using the stupidly BLUNT knifes to cut my wonderfully over-cooked pizza nor do i destroy powersupply fans in the IT department in which im enrolled in, and nor do i run around the science labs with chemicals Sam
that is just plain dumb... even for an 8 year old, i used to bring it to school so i could fix stuff and get out of tight spots, not as a weapon or as a way to scare my coleges. for that i had my x-acto knife j/k
