ZERO TOLERANCE

[Duchess]

A kid in Arizona was suspended from school because he used a picture of an AK-47 as wallpaper on his school issued computer. School officials claim the picture breaks the policy that students are forbidden from 'sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures,'.

Is the school overreacting?

[Sphincter Cop]

Is the school overreacting?

Very much so! Whatever happened calling a student into an office and discussing the issue? If the kid doesn't get it, then you get a parent involved. If it escalates, then move into a disciplinary process.

[ramseycat]

Yes. How about asking him to change it because it's against school policy? Suspending him is a bit harsh.

[OnBendedKnee]

Please tell me there is more to the story.

[thekid65]

It's funny. Shit like this brings me back to 2^nd grade. I brought my BB gun to school for show-and-tell. Nobody thought a thing of it. Imagine that nowadays.

It's not the guns that are fucked up, it's our society, and the way our children are being raised. Why is that so hard to understand for some people.

[sally]

When my son was in 4^th grade he took the blades out of a mini pencil sharpener and him and another kid were playing with them in the lunch room, some stupid bitch having lunch with her kid saw them and made a huge deal about it, you'd think he brought a bomb to school. They were actually going to suspend him over that untill I went in and talked to the principal, fucking ridiculous.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Yep, they are fucked up.
When I was in high school, first day after christmas break we were all out in the parking lot around the trucks comparing new guns. School security guard rolled up on his golf cart and joined in, he got a new gun too. Bell rang and we all locked up the pickups and went to class, no big deal.
This kid has a picture, a week or so ago some kid got whacked for pointing his finger like a gun.
They are apparently teaching stupidity in schools these days

[Duchess]

I don't know what other schools are like but suspensions and other things like that would become part of our school transcripts and it would be seen by any colleges that we applied to. This one thing could affect his chances of attending schools of his choice.

Here's the whole story -

A high school freshman from Florence, Arizona received a three-day school suspension after he used a picture of a gun and an American flag as desktop background on his school-issued computer.

Daniel McClaine Jr. was initially suspended for three days for displaying a flag and an AK-47 after a teacher at Poston Butte High School spotted the picture and reported him.

District policy prohibits students from sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures, and accessing, sending, creating or forwarding pictures that were deemed harassing, threatening, or illegal.

McClaine said the school initially suspended him for three days Friday but the boy’s father revealed that after communicating with the school, the administration allowed his son to join his class Monday instead of Wednesday.

The student claimed the photo does not violate this policy because it does not show anything violent.

Daniel McClaine Sr told the press that he finds the three-day suspension because of a picture ridiculous, saying “he should have got a warning. He shouldn’t have ever been suspended. Not for something so frivolous.”


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[Adub]

It's funny. Shit like this brings me back to 2^nd grade. I brought my BB gun to school for show-and-tell. Nobody thought a thing of it. Imagine that nowadays.

It's not the guns that are fucked up, it's our society, and the way our children are being raised. Why is that so hard to understand for some people.

Well hell, times have changed. My little one (once removed) is on the letter "L" for show and tell, so he took Leonardo (TMNT), and I knew enough that he couldn't take those widdie biddie pull a-part weapons that come in the bubble pack. Who takes weapons to school? NOT LEONARDO! That is for sure. Because LEONARDO knows better!