All I can say is what is wrong with these administrator's.
SYRNA, Tenn. - A 10-year-old Tennessee school boy is being punished for the rest of the semester after allegedly waving around pizza shaped like a gun, according to a WKRN report .
Nicholas Taylor attends David Youree Elementary School, and for the next 5 days he will be forced to eat lunch at the “silent table”.
Some believe the pizza had bites that fashioned the lunch into a gun shape.
His mother, LeAnn Taylor, learned about the incident when Nicholas came home with a letter saying that he threatened students. She says she was just horsing around and the punishment was absolutely ridiculous.
“The kid across the table from him said it looked like a gun so he picked it up and started shooting in the air,” she told Nashville’s News 2.
A school official said it isn’t about the shape of the pizza, it’s the threatening hand gestures and pretend shooting at other students. One child reportedly told a teacher about it.
The official said the point of the punishment is to make it clear that guns aren’t acceptable.
A message LeAnn says her son already knows. She told reporters that she doesn’t own a gun, but her child does play with light sabers, as he is a big Star Wars fan.
However, the school warned LeAnn that if her son has another "pizza gun" incident, he will be suspended.
Yet more evidence that we're as far from the greatest generation that one can get, and that the terrorists have won.
"...make it clear that guns aren’t acceptable."
We are in huge trouble as a society when we have demonized the same guns that my school generation loved to openly talk about. Can kids even have a G.I. Joe anymore?
I'm concerned for our teachers and administrators. You never know when a 10 year old with a piece of pizza might sneak up behind them and fill them full of peperoni!
My how times have changed!
Greg,
Back in the olden days (circa 1966) the Principal of the high school I attended was interested in a target shooting organization (Halifax Rifle Club) I attended on Saturday mornings. He wanted his son to join. We only shot .22’s with a Mossberg equipped with peep sights.
Anyway the Principal wanted to see my rifle so after arriving at school early one morning, I took the rifle (yes, unloaded) in its case right into the “Administrative” office and asked to see the Principal. Nobody batted an eye and the Principal came out of his office took the rifle out of the case right there in the “Main Office”, examined it, returned it to its case and said he would buy his son one to start with. I returned the rifle to my car and went to class.
Have a great weekend!
We could save a lot of money for edumacation if ...
they fired all the administrators and principals because there is no place for judgement any more. If iron-clad "policies" are enforced to the detriment of common sense, there is certainly no need for education administrations any more. Think of the money that could be saved if the mindless administrators were all fired!
"Stupid is as stupid does."
It could have been worse. What if the kid had chewed his pizza into a circle and another kid said it looked like a bomb!
That is taking Zero Tolerance a little too far ,IMO.
but then you have incidents like this in our backyard..so to speak
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/12/second_lakeshore_high_shooting.html
This nonsense is incredible. The only solution is to stop voting for these silly, pesky, feminine, elitist, "academic" type politicians, if you know what I mean. Without an extremely hard right turn in this country we're headed the way of Europe fast, and it's not going to be pretty for our descendants.
As Ted would say "it's time to Pizza Up"
this stuff is a ridiculous over-reaction to 9/11
Back in the 60' and 70's when I went to school, we all brought guns to school. Sure, we'd occasionally have shootouts on the playground and someone would get killed but it was no big deal because the teachers were armed too. Sometimes we'd have a gunfight between the older students and the teachers and really shoot up the school, taking out all the windows and even most of the cars in the parking lot. Then the principle would come out of his office with a flamethrower and pretty much set the whole school on fire. Yup, those were the days.
If you are responding to my link, then please clarify your thoughts on the incident instead of regurgitating some worn rhetoric.
FYI, you can't find a place that is more 'right wing conservative' than here in the South.
These are middle class kids with conservative parnts. They are not thugs or gangsters.
We could save a lot of money for edumacation if ...
Prof. do you deem the gun in this photo to be a threat?
Sounds like the kid was displaying some gun safety training by shooting it in the air. Good for him and those who were teaching him something he needs to know.
jud
aadf
> aadf
Albanian-American DevelopmentvFoundation?
All American Dance Factory?
Average Annual Daily Flow?
What the heck are you talking about, son?
Don
I don't understand. There is no mention of them calling the pigs to come tazer the little beggar and have him arrested. Whut?
That is outragous!!
When I was in high school (mid-late 70s) we routinely carried guns in our vehicles. Most of us had gun racks and the weapons were openly [proudly] displayed in plain view. No one cared. Most of us also carried pocket knives as well. Again, no one cared.
I would be curious to ask my brother's (Wild Bill) kids what they see today. They are in the same school now that I and Bill and our other brother Jon all graduated from.
"pizza gun"? You got to be freakin kidding me. How absurd is that?
Seems like when you have heard it all... well you haven't.
the gun policy at my daughter's school is a tad
bit different than that.....
