This has to be the dumbest school ever!

[TexasSP]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...wyzBwD9GD56SO0

Seriously, I could not believe I was reading this and it was a legitimate news story. Plastic freaking army men violate a zero tolerance policy? How exactly does one use a plastic army man holding a weapon in a threatening manner? I could do more damage with a pencil eraser.

[Finnster]

Isn't this the same state that had the big fight over wanting to fire a huge number of teachers?


I can see why now....

I swear to Christ,if I see one more story about some school banning the dumbest stuff for no good reason I'll lose my damn mind.I just graduated and they were pretty easy on us but there were still a few teachers who were way on the liberal side,I got taken to the office for a WW2 diorama that I had put an EMPTY m1 carbine shell on,this S#%] is getting ridiculous.I own guns, I hunt, I target shoot and I just joined the navy, and I'm pretty sure my experience with guns and knowledge of them hasn't affected me in a bad way. This phobia of guns our nation has seemed to gone into is getting way outta hand.--Josh

And to throw this idea out there,if those teachers had any idea what a guy my size could do with a ball point Ben or a pencil, you think they would ban them to?--Josh

[simplechamp]

The fact is if someone wants to hurt or kill people they are going to find a way to do it, whether they have a gun or not. There should be more focus on observing mental health, and getting help to people who are at risk of committing such acts. This is especially important for youth. Unfortunately it's far easier to just say "Let's ban anything having to do with guns."

Originally Posted by simplechamp

The fact is if someone wants to hurt or kill people they are going to find a way to do it, whether they have a gun or not. There should be more focus on observing mental health, and getting help to people who are at risk of committing such acts. This is especially important for youth. Unfortunately it's far easier to just say "Let's ban anything having to do with guns."

Agreed. Guns don't kill people, people do.

"agreed. Guns don't kill people,people do"

abso-freakin-lutely, and we've been doin it without guns for thousands of years --josh

[What's_nitro?]

That is just stupid... I've got half a mind to buy all of the army figures on eBay and dump them in the hallways of that school.

[JERRY2KONE]

Now that would be a funny story to read about. School staff had to take the day off because access to the school was denied by hallways filled with tiny plastic army men standing gaurd.

I understand the school management not wanting to promote the wrong message to its children or that of the visiting school by video, but sometimes they just go too far not realizing how foolish they look when they go overboard with their authority.

Considering that they were getting ready to share the day with a foreign school I can see the concern of what image they were sending, but really what harm would it have done. I bet if a lawyer would have gotten involved it could have been considered as a violation of his civil right to bare arms. Considering they were tiny little plastic weapons that are pretty much harmless to anyone the school would have lost that argument. Their argument was obviously about promoting war with its children, which is kind of lame.

[reno911]

"Thats right Charlie, our military uses flowers and baked goods to win wars. Especially those first two World Wars, flowers played an outstanding role in winning those two battles."

I once thought owning a weapon was a constitutional right. Was I wrong.
Pretty sure when a kid thinks of army and soldiers they think of guns as well.

These kids are playing more freaking violent video games anyway.

Makes me wonder if the ripped those pages out of all of the dictionaries and encyclopedias as well.

[TexasSP]

I have seen what a kid can do with a sharpened pencil, maybe we should ban those from school? I have seen what a kid can do to another with a full book backing swinging from around his back in a fight, maybe we should ban those? I had a kid put staples into my hand because I pissed him off, maybe staples should be banned from school? I have seen people make pipes from apples to smoke pot, maybe we should ban those from school?

Of course maybe allowing real discipline back into the school and correcting behavior would help? I mean, it seems that the more we remove reasonable discipline measures the worse it gets.

Maybe we should got back to teaching basic respect and manners in kindergarten and preschool and requiring children to understand and follow these principals before moving up.

[reno911]

You can't hit my kid. Who the hell are you to hit my kid?

And.... Begin lawsuit!

[rawfuls]

This is pretty funny.

Maybe he should go into school with a huge tub of the soldiers and dump em in the office, and just walk out..

I want to see the look on the face of the office people when they duck under the tables because they're "dangerous"...

Anyways, my friend in a school was stabbed in the hand with a incredibly sharpened pencil.
Left a nice, dark, graphite, hole...
Still has a mark, maybe we should have stab-proof pencils.
Hmm

[BrianG]

It would be funny if it weren't true. Schools are such a joke. My stepkid got in trouble by pretending to be in a knifefight with another kid (nothing in either of their hands - totally pretend). My kid got in trouble playing tag because you aren't supposed to play games where touching each other is involved. These kids are either going to grow up repressed or a bunch of pussies (excuse the french).

[reno911]

No tag!?!? Wow! I thought that was pretty much at the foundation of school games at that age.

How do they play football, remember two hands?

Society has really taken a turn in the wrong direction.