How about getting suspended for wearing an American flag t-shirt? Ya'll just loved that! Here's the thing - you don't get to pick and choose which zero tolerance policy you like or don't. There was a kid recently expelled for punching a kid who was beating on a blind kid. Just as stupid. |
Or maybe he saw the school and administration being trashed, and idiots all calling it Islamophobia, when in fact, the kid is a little brat. |
A little brat who's being bullied and taunted because he's s brown-skinned Muslim and where the perpetrators apparently suffer no consequences? God Bless America! |
I almost feel bad for you. |
And that's why he turned off the teacher's projector? And that gadget he 'made' while doing it? Sold on the web - was it his, or did he just take the casing off like he did the clock? |
I'm the PP. Now understand that my husband would have done the same at his age. Even now. He turned off all the TVs in Tysons food court. Some boys never grow up ![]() I think this kid is probably mischievous as most really smart kids are. Which is why they had to check out this new device - he's a prankster and they weren't sure if he went too far. As for the bullying? I don't approve and if he hit a kid who was bullying him, well, good for him. |
Hey, next time, the Muslim kid could bring in some oregano in a baggy, or maybe some talcum powder, and say that's for a science project, too. |
So what kind of science project would involve oregano? |
OK so he turned off a teacher's projector, and he blew soap bubbles in a bathroom. A bad seed if I ever saw one! ![]() |
As a poster noted above, he's a "Muslim kid" so he already has two strikes against him. |
Not saying he's a bad kid. He's a prankster. So when this 'clock' comes in, they now have a reason to bring him down and question him. |
I find the projector prank pretty clever and wish that there was a IR remote control back in the day. The kid wasn't torturing neighborhood pets, spray painting anti-Semetic graffiti or dropping explosives in toilets. |
Agreed. However, he was known for pranking in school. So it stands to reason they might not have thought a clock was just a clock. You reap what you sow. |
Right, but if some kid in a snowflake's class in, say, Arlington or McLean was turning off a projector, folks would be sanctimoniously invoking the rules. |
That's the point of zero tolerance. It removes discretion and rationality from the equation. Some of you want to double down and argue that harmless pranks like turning off a projector are in effect a "gateway" to making a not-a-hoax bomb. Thee us no evidence that Mohamed ever hinted or explicitly represented that the clock in a pencil box was anything other than a click in a pencil box. No threat was made or implied. So what's the supposed prank.
It's the GOP MO. Eight Congressional investigations and an internal Dept of State investigation into Benghazi turn up noting, so Boehner convenes the Gowdy committee which also finds nothing relating to Bdnghazi other than the fact Clinton hosted her email on a private server. Raise the curtain for Act One of the theater of outrage. |