Ridiculous goings on at St. Albans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone has a problem with the kid owning a BB gun. But when they initiated all the hoopla, no one knew what kind of gun it was.

You are wrong about this. I have a problem with guns period, any kind of gun. I have a zero tolerance policy regarding guns. No squirt guns, no plastic guns, no making guns out of Legos, no guns anywhere on my property, and no kids bringing guns or toy guns or violent-looking toys over to play with my kids.

I think the school was right. BB guns can be dangerous. I know a kid who was injured by a bb gun. He nearly lost an eye. And if they can't tell the difference between a real gun and a bbgun from looking at the gun, they were right to arrest the kids. The kid had no right to have any kind of gun in the back of his car on school grounds.

Good for the school and for the police. I think zero tolerance goes too far sometimes (like the case of the kid expelled for taking a boy scout knife/spoon to school), but in this case, the action of the school officials and police sounds reasonable.

You, poster, are a freeloader. You can live your life gun-free because others in society choose not to.

Plus, you're inconsistent. You don't like harmless squirt guns but you think a school over-reacted to the presence of a knife, which is not always harmless??? Which would you rather be confronted with in a dark alley?

[Anonymous]

Please, BE PARENTS, MOVE ON!!!!! This thead is useless!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of you have the correct story, seeing as you all are being mis-led by the news. Myself and other students on the Cathedral close were actually there, we know what happened. We were only on lockdown for 40 minutes, first of all. Not 90. The 18 year old was driving to school with a 17 year old passenger, the older one forgot about the BB gun in the back of his car, the younger one wanted to see it, so he took it out. Some parent flipped out because they thought that he was in possession of an actual rifle. Obviously they cannot tell the different between a toy and an actual weapon. These boy's chances of going to the amazing colleges that they had been accepted to, are most likely ruined. Nothing dangerous happened, and nothing was going to happen. We have a very safe campus, with strict rules, that everyone is well aware of. The only reason this seems like such a big deal, is that it is a PRIVATE school. If this had happened at a public school, this forum would not even exist. I am astonished that even adults still believe the stereotypes of typical private school kids. We are just normal teenagers. We make mistakes like any other. So please, get your facts straight, and stop judging us.

Actually, if this happened at a public school, the students would be totally screwed because those schools worship at the alter of zero tolerance much more than private schools do. (And, by the way, many public schools have forums available to them.)

I'm hoping that the student writing this is actually a younger sibling of a STA boy, because there are so many mistakes in it. "None of you HAS" "seeing as you" "Myself and other students" "18 year old" "17 year old" (the latter mistakes were in a run-on sentence) "Some parent flipped out because THEY" "Obviously[] they" "These boy's chances" "to, are" "deal, is" "If this had happened at a public school, this forum would not even exist" [what does the latter have to do with the former?]

Phew. I'm tired.

Perhaps, this teen is emotionally upset. Give him/her a break.

[Anonymous]

On a side note, we are extremely anti-gun too. Never let our boys play with them, no water pistols etc. Sent them to Quaker schools; preached non-violence, blah, blah, blah. My younger son took every single toy he could and pointed it and said "bang, bang!" A few years later, we are a bit more relaxed. We let them get super soakers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps, this teen is emotionally upset. Give him/her a break.

Seems unlikely given the "no harm, no foul" logic of his post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of you have the correct story, seeing as you all are being mis-led by the news. Myself and other students on the Cathedral close were actually there, we know what happened. We were only on lockdown for 40 minutes, first of all. Not 90. The 18 year old was driving to school with a 17 year old passenger, the older one forgot about the BB gun in the back of his car, the younger one wanted to see it, so he took it out. Some parent flipped out because they thought that he was in possession of an actual rifle. Obviously they cannot tell the different between a toy and an actual weapon. These boy's chances of going to the amazing colleges that they had been accepted to, are most likely ruined. Nothing dangerous happened, and nothing was going to happen. We have a very safe campus, with strict rules, that everyone is well aware of. The only reason this seems like such a big deal, is that it is a PRIVATE school. If this had happened at a public school, this forum would not even exist. I am astonished that even adults still believe the stereotypes of typical private school kids. We are just normal teenagers. We make mistakes like any other. So please, get your facts straight, and stop judging us.

I highly doubt the kids' chances of going to a good school are ruined. I'm sure they'll get excellent legal representation as well. The kids made a stupid mistake and I'm sure the authorities and the colleges will be looking for ways to help them get past it. But they are indeed morons if they think that the authorities didn't have to take the initial report seriously. The police have no way of knowing whether someone at your school has decided to shoot up his fellow students and delay could have been deadly.

And believe me it would indeed have been a big deal if it happened at a public school. A kid in DCPS who pulled the same thing would most likely not get the kind of breaks that these kids will probably get.

[Anonymous]

Actually this event is indicative of St. Albans. First drugs in prior years, now weapons. There are many other school this would have never happened at.

[Anonymous]

Are we becoming the people our parents warned us about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually this event is indicative of St. Albans. First drugs in prior years, now weapons. There are many other school this would have never happened at.

Oh, let's feed this troll. Which schools would this have "never" happened at? Columbine? Paducah? Some little Amish school in Pennsylvania?

You live in a fantasy world if you think you so carefully chose your child's school that it could "never" happen there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually this event is indicative of St. Albans. First drugs in prior years, now weapons. There are many other school this would have never happened at.

Oh, let's feed this troll. Which schools would this have "never" happened at? Columbine? Paducah? Some little Amish school in Pennsylvania?

You live in a fantasy world if you think you so carefully chose your child's school that it could "never" happen there.

So says the great defender of St. Albans, the Troll Slayer!

Ah, people get you riled so easily, it's like clockwork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually this event is indicative of St. Albans. First drugs in prior years, now weapons. There are many other school this would have never happened at.

Oh, let's feed this troll. Which schools would this have "never" happened at? Columbine? Paducah? Some little Amish school in Pennsylvania?

You live in a fantasy world if you think you so carefully chose your child's school that it could "never" happen there.

I think you are right, PP. But St. Albans certainly seems to have it's consistent share of serious problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually this event is indicative of St. Albans. First drugs in prior years, now weapons. There are many other school this would have never happened at.

Oh, let's feed this troll. Which schools would this have "never" happened at? Columbine? Paducah? Some little Amish school in Pennsylvania?

You live in a fantasy world if you think you so carefully chose your child's school that it could "never" happen there.

I think you are right, PP. But St. Albans certainly seems to have it's consistent share of serious problems.

Like giving birth to that pompous jack-ass who is now the senior senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry? Knowing what we know about Edwards, it's an amazing bullet we dodged there.

[Anonymous]

Kerry went to St. Pauls School in Concord NH.

Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually this event is indicative of St. Albans. First drugs in prior years, now weapons. There are many other school this would have never happened at.

Sure, any school where the kids are too young to drive.

For example, I'm willing to bet we'll never hear of a student driving on the NCRC campus and leaving a weapon in full in their car. Of course there are public schools you could say the same thing about -- I don't think many Peabody students deal drugs.

[Anonymous]

Guns are guns. And if these are illegal in DC, then bringing in the police was necessary and appropriate. I am sorry that two lives will be disrupted by someone's poor judgment, but the school did the right thing.