Kid Suspended For Playing With An Airsoft Gun in his own front lawn...

Well, better watch out or your kids will be expelled for life for using a knife when eating lunch... the little psychos !

I'm lazy to google first but there have been other stories of kids harassed by law enforcement or school officials for playing with toy guns out of the school precinct, possibly on their private property, haven't it ?

 

Don't know about that, but read a story about some grade-school kid being sent home because there was a picture of a rifle on his T-shirt.

 

Some links that come up from a "kid playing with toy gun police " google search, I stopped half way through the second page. 2 old links thogh 2003 and 2007.

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/45547767.html

http://rense.com/general43/toy.htm

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63207

 

There was a time where kids often played "cowboys and indians"... with cap pistols and all. Today, those kids would probably be sent to juvie...

 

Its and odd situation... because my kids and their friends all have these very cool nerf guns... and they do have nerf gun battles outside.

 

All three kids booted from school for the year in unanimous decision, this is huge if these parents dont challenge it, because it sets a precedent that even while at your own home on private property the school some how has the authority to kick you out for not doing what they want you to do.



STUNNING UPDATE: SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS SUSPENDED FOR A YEAR FOR PLAYING WITH AIRSOFT GUNS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY

In a unanimous decision on Tuesday morning, a disciplinary committee voted to hand down long-term suspensions to three Virginia Beach seventh-grade students for playing with airsoft guns on private property.

Khalid Caraballo, Aidan Clark and a third student will reportedly be suspended until June, or the entire school year. However, the committee voted to hold the suspension in “abeyance” to allow the students to attend an alternative education program during the suspension.

A hearing will be held on January 27 to determine if the students will be permitted to return to school sooner than that.

“The students’ parents initially told WAVY News’ Andy Fox their children were expelled, but when Fox looked at the official letter from the school, he found they were long-term suspensions and not expulsions, as was recommended by the school’s principal,” WAVT-TV reports.

However, the technicality means little to the parents of the students.

“I’m more than angry,” Tim Clark, Aidan’s dad, said, “it’s like an expulsion-suspension.”

The incident occurred on Sept. 12 as the students played with the airsoft guns on the Caraballos’ private property while waiting for the school bus. The front yard in which the boys were playing is located 70 yards from the bus stop.

Both Khalid and Aidan say they never took the toy guns to the bus stop or to school. But that didn’t stop the school from suspending them for “possession, handling and use of a firearm.” However, the offense was altered this week to change the wording to “airsoft gun” instead of “firearm.”

WAVY-TV also obtained a copy of the letter sent to parents, which indicates the students will be suspended for “one year.”

 

When I read things like this my first thought is typically, "can't be the whole story, has to be more to it", such as when I read about N. Carolina's school board decision to ban Ralph Ellison's novel "Invisible Man". Then I hope common sense will prevail (as it did for the novel).

 

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The good ole days, when you didn't get suspended from school - for being a kid.

 

An Obituary printed in the London Times.....


Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

 

Wow!!!! So sad, yet it's nice to know a news organization in London would print this much needed read.
Btw, my Son is a big time airsoft guy. When I told him about the kid being expelled for a year for playing airsoft IN HIS OWN YARD, he went bonkers over it. I don't blame him. At 16, he's tired of the liberal lunacy as are his friends. Maybe this generation will be the one that revolts, and says no more to liberalism, and communism...