TN - Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice

[ajwakeboarder]

reminds me of the time i got "lunch detention" for getting out of my chair to pick up a quarter i dropped at lunch. These schools are getting out of control. I know, i didn't graduate that long ago.

[Oldgringo]

Kinda' sad, isn't it. I wonder how far Dayton, TN is from Smyrna. You know, Dayton is where they had the Scopes Monkey trial years ago. Check it out.

BTW, Davy Crockett and the Oldgringo both hail from Tennessee. {*sigh*}

[Rex B]

I'm sure glad I don't have kids in school, and I feel for those that do.
That said, if such a thing happened in the Keller ISD, I'd be all over the School Board

[ajwakeboarder]

I used to go to Keller. They aren't much better.

[MasterOfNone]

I suppose he'd get in trouble for having an apple shaped like a grenade or an asparagus spear.

[Rex B]

I used to go to Keller. They aren't much better.

Yep, bunch of idiots on the KISD school board. They got their shorts in a wad because we did not give them their big bond at the last election, and said they were going to have to fire people and other measures to scrape by. Then a few weeks later they found a million or so they had overlooked.
I am going to vote against every incumbent on the current board every time they come up, and remind my neighbors why they should do the same.

[mojo84]

How can a "vegetable" be dangerous?

[Charles L. Cotton]

I suppose he'd get in trouble for having an apple shaped like a grenade or an asparagus spear.

Excellent point. We can't have kids getting blown up by a banana Claymore, now can we?

Chas.

[threoh8]

I suppose he'd get in trouble for having an apple shaped like a grenade or an asparagus spear.

Excellent point. We can't have kids getting blown up by a banana Claymore, now can we?

Chas.

Mushrooms don't need to be nibbled to look like, well, mushroom clouds. Mushrooms of mass destruction!

[olafpfj]

I lived in the San Francisco bay area for all of 2009, Castro Valley to be specific. I had many many talks with my kids to never ever mention or talk about daddy's guns. I still tell them that even though we're in Texas.

I remember when I was in 3rd grade I decorated one of my paper bag book covers with tons of little swastika's and a V2 rocket. I was, and still am, an avid watcher of WWII documentaries and I just thought the symbol looked neat and was fun to draw. I had ZERO idea what it meant or that it might be offensive. No one said a word to me or my parents about it. After a few I weeks I grew bored with it and re covered my book and drew something else.

What happened to common sense?!!!!... ...

[Rex B]

How we forget things! When I was in grade school it was very common for boys to doodle swastikas and other symbols of WW2. This was late 1950s, attending on-base schools for air force dependents. ALL of our dad's served in WW2, and most fought Germany, yet no one raised an eyebrow over a swastika here and there on a book cover.
Of course, we also all carried pocketknives then also.

[Heartland Patriot]

I lived in the San Francisco bay area for all of 2009, Castro Valley to be specific. I had many many talks with my kids to never ever mention or talk about daddy's guns. I still tell them that even though we're in Texas.

I remember when I was in 3rd grade I decorated one of my paper bag book covers with tons of little swastika's and a V2 rocket. I was, and still am, an avid watcher of WWII documentaries and I just thought the symbol looked neat and was fun to draw. I had ZERO idea what it meant or that it might be offensive. No one said a word to me or my parents about it. After a few I weeks I grew bored with it and re covered my book and drew something else.

What happened to common sense?!!!!... ...

These sorts of stories make me think back to being in 4th grade. One of the kids in my class was really good at drawing guns and he showed me how. Cowboy revolvers, 1911s, lever guns, whatever...we doodled them all over the paper book covers that they gave you for your books back then. The only time one of the teachers got mad was because we were talking about it instead of paying attention to whatever the lesson was...she said something about drawing when we finished our work and not during a lesson. That was it...man, I wonder if these self-righteous PC school "professionals" even bother to think how dumb they are going to look when they pull these kinds of stunts...yep, real geniuses, all of them.

[The Annoyed Man]

It's a much different world now, but because "we" made it so, and not because the world in and of itself is inherently any more dangerous. There have always been muslim fanatics. Terrorism has existed in some form or other as long as we've been a nation. We had serial killers in the 19th century. And for generations, kids grew up playing with guns because they idolized their fathers, who understood guns, had served the nation, fought in her wars, put down tyrannies with their guns, and took their kids hunting. Somehow, the vast majority of those kids turned out OK, without any help from a nanny state.

When I was in high school, kids had .22 rifles or .410 shotguns in the trunks of their cars, and nobody thought anything about it. It was NORMAL. It was shortly after then that the word "gay" stopped meaning "gay," and started meaning "gay." Atlas Shrugged, anybody?

The kid did not answer truthfully because some adult bullies ganged up on him and he was afraid. He did what any kid would have done: denied the charges. Any adult who thinks that a gun shaped piece of pizza is dangerous is a few bricks shy of a load. The very fact that such a person is in a position of responsibility in a school system is proof positive that the schools have all gone to hades. We are doomed as a nation if these are the people who are [strike]educating[/strike] indoctrinating our kids.

[sjfcontrol]

It's a much different world now, but because "we" made it so, and not because the world in and of itself is inherently any more dangerous. There have always been muslim fanatics. Terrorism has existed in some form or other as long as we've been a nation. We had serial killers in the 19th century. And for generations, kids grew up playing with guns because they idolized their fathers, who understood guns, had served the nation, fought in her wars, put down tyrannies with their guns, and took their kids hunting. Somehow, the vast majority of those kids turned out OK, without any help from a nanny state.

When I was in high school, kids had .22 rifles or .410 shotguns in the trunks of their cars, and nobody thought anything about it. It was NORMAL. It was shortly after then that the word "gay" stopped meaning "gay," and started meaning "gay." Atlas Shrugged, anybody?

The kid did not answer truthfully because some adult bullies ganged up on him and he was afraid. He did what any kid would have done: denied the charges. Any adult who thinks that a gun shaped piece of pizza is dangerous is a few bricks shy of a load. The very fact that such a person is in a position of responsibility in a school system is proof positive that the schools have all gone to hades. We are doomed as a nation if these are the people who are [strike]educating[/strike] indoctrinating our kids.

Anybody that thinks that is more than a few bricks shy -- the are loadless! This is insanity.