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Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring
An anonymous reader writes Nine-year-old Aiden Steward has been suspended by officials at a Texas school after he allegedly threatened to use his magic ring to make another boy disappear. His father says the family had watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies last weekend. His son brought a ring to class and told another boy his magic ring could make the boy disappear. "I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," Aiden's father wrote in an email. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back." Principal Roxanne Greer declined to comment on the school's zero tolerance policy on magic rings. It may seem easy to make fun of Principal Greer in this case, but it does make one wonder how many elves could have been saved if someone took a hard line with a young Sauron.
and, is this policy thing working out for you?
Frostbite and other injuries from cold are very serious. We can't have kids running around and freezing each other on the playground.
The reason why he got expelled was because he didn't bring a gun to class. And in turn he started spouting some non-christian magic mumbo jumbo.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
school is for learning and teaching.
the school is teaching the kid that threats have consequences. they aren't permanently affecting his job outlooks, its a harmless suspension, and a pretty good lesson.
Fuck yes!
They would probably expel a kindergartner for having a gun shaped birth mark.
Thank goodness he didn't make himself invisible! Think of all the mischief he could create then!
To a 9 year old, the notion of what is 'credible threat' differs from that of an adult (or the bully). It's a threat, period, as with a plastic gun model. Next time someone will claim a bomb threat is allowed as long as the perp can prove he couldn't have actually done it. If the kid felt he was bullird then he probably was bullied, who cares about the weapon.
like, oh, discerning possessives from contractions. Or maybe you just got suspended a lot.
Seeing that this is Texas he should have just said that "God will strike down the unbeliever" and left it at that.
I'd love to see this zero tolerance policy come up against religious freedom.
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It's Texas, so I bet the real reason he was suspended turns out to be the principal's religious objection to the practice of witchcraft shrouded in a "zero tolerance" policy for threats.
"It may seem easy to make fun of Principal Greer in this case, but it does make one wonder how many elves could have been saved if someone took a hard line with a young Sauron."
Ironically, his level of ignorance has triggered my zero tolerance for morons in powerful positions. Particularly those responsible for education.
Just once, just one damn time I'd like to see Common F. Sense kick the living shit out of Zero Tolerance.
Once again, we watch the fear of litigation create handcuffs and cause cranial-rectal inversion. Damn that shit gets old.
... Another case that proves the old saying - "Zero Tolerance Policy" means "Zero Intelligence Policy"
yeah I know that reading the TFA helps. But this little gem says it all - this kid is a huge trouble maker and has been suspended before. Look at the crap he has pulled:
Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: "The Big Book of Knowledge."
“He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,” Steward said.
But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.
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Perhaps there is a reason that Texas takes the threat of ring wraiths so seriously? I'm imagining that there is a lot more going on in the wilderness of Texas than most of us could rationally believe.
According to the article the same kid was also suspended for bringing "The Big Book Of Knowledge" - An encyclopedia for kid - to class.
Since Sauron is a Maia, he predates what we know as "creation".
So the answer to this is probably "no".
As always, Eru Illuvatar did not make himself available for comment.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
He's already been suspended twice before. Once for bringing an encyclopedia of knowledge to school while learning about the solar system that also happened to have a section on pregnancy. Dangerous knowledge.
He got suspended earlier for bringing a children's encyclopedia, "The Big Book of Knowledge," which had a section on pregnancy.
If that is the case, he should be expelled.
The family name is Steward.
I think the boy was merely trying to show "show his quality"
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Some how they had the mind of
disappear = disappear as in rubbed out by the mob.
and not
disappear = as in a still there but can be seen.
TFA says that the school is called ''Kermit Elementary School'', I was expecting the name ''Hogwarts'' - silly me!
... of the types of behavior that led to sending our kids to private schools.
Never looked back.
... still try to emmigrate to the US?
If a moron at a local pizzeria causes you grief, you'll simply order from a different restaurant next time. But there is no such choice in the single most important sphere of all: the children education. And TFA is just one little example of it.
Since 1960-ies the per-pupil annual cost of public schools quadrupled (inflation-adjusted), while the quality of education remains the same (if it has not gotten worse). What other industry could get away with such a thing?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
The one ring is no joke. Theres an entire multipart documentary on how its a bane on society and threatening to use it against another classmate is atrocious. Parents should talk to their kids about Sauron and how to properly dispose of the ring. Clearly had this kid been mentored by wizards he would have known the appropriate quest to take to rid the land of the scourge.
Good people go to bed earlier.
There is something seriously wrong with this principle. I do not know if is something that needs counseling, or psych-drugs, or whether she is mentally challenged, or merely power mad, and enjoys exerting it over little children, but no, childplay should never be punished like that. I don't think she should be allowed to be around children.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Ms. Roxane Greer, KES Principal
432-586-1020
rgreer@kisd.esc18.net
It's part of the "teaching incompetence and government absurdity" in the classroom program. Best the kids learn early that rational thought and reason does not exist if the words threat, school, sex, gay, religion, race, and more are used in a sentence.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
It may seem easy to make fun of Principal Greer in this case, but it does make one wonder how many elves could have been saved if someone took a hard line with a young Sauron
Well, I don't know. Maybe that would have fed his hatred towards elves ('allway getting away with everything'). Maybe that's just what happened.
On the other hand: it's Texas. Is their any alternative to taking the hard line?
it's not imaginary witchcraft that is the problem. I hear belief in Jesus, his witchcraft, and that of his people is encouraged. Just not Lord of the Rings witchcraft.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
Seriously, it's time for parents to quit letting these fucking brain-dead bureaucrats pull this shit. If you're thinking of voting for any politician who takes contributions from the the NEA, then FUCK YOU.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Kids aren't concerned about credible threatening statements. They're concerned with how those statements made them feel. If a kid threatened me with the One Ring, I might feel utterly terrified if I didn't know what it was. If I did, I wouldn't feel scared at all, I would probably feel humored and laugh. One kid's threat is another kid's joke.
The proper lesson to the kid would be how to recognize when we've hurt the feelings of others and learn how to apologize for our actions, and in the future try not to take actions that are going to hurt feelings.
Principal Greer, please take your zero-tolerance and hyper-PC bullshit back to California.
Let me see if I understand this. Previously, he was suspended for mentioning that another kid was "black", which apparently is a violation of some idiot's "tolerance for others" policy. You can't have the kid being "intolerant", by being aware of ethnic differences. Next, he's suspended based on Greer's zero-tolerance policy. Zero-tolerance for uhm - pretending, apparently.
What happens to the teachers at this school who get pregnant? Or are we back in the 19th century again?
It's almost like you think there's a magic world where schools aren't run by insane people. The whole point of schools is to train kids to submit to stupid and arbitrary rules.
Look at how popular extremist Christianity is down there. No one told Texas that the supernatural is imaginary.
Oh, it's probably happened, the news industry is just to embarrassed to admit that "administrator not a complete idiot" actually qualifies as news. They have to make their audience feel good about themselves after all.
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...Thank god he didn't watch green lantern! He'd probably have been taken out by a sniper! (also, seriously, that film was TERRIBLE)
There have been schools that were run by people who care about educating children. There are some in the United States even now.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Disclaimer: Texas resident, parent of child in Texas school, former Texas schools/university employee.
Texas is off the hook with this crap; it's shameful, really. I left the school districts because of the heavy-handedness towards employees of all stripes. Now, having said this, in the last several years I have seen and noticed this:
- If you're a homosexual student or teacher, it would take an act of God to have you disciplined or sacked from your job
- If you're black or latino, you can say or do almost anything short of physical violence and not much will happen to you
- If you're white and Christian, especially a male, student or teacher, you are being watched with renewed interest over what you may say or do to offend the homosexuals, women, and non-whites
I speak from authority on this having to attend the stupid "tolerance" classed for employees. We were told the most radical crap, that we should allow the homosexuals to be themselves, but yet Christians cannot wear a shirt that has any reference to Christianity or Jesus, but it's quite OK to wear a shirt that says "Queer and proud" or "Athiest or blatantly satantic shirts featuring mutilation and black/death metal. The political correctness has become a disease that needs to be cut from every workplace like the cancer it is.
It really is that bad. I'm abjectly politically incorrect, not a racist, and Christian, but I cannot stand idly by while the school boards wreck the schools and make my life hell just so we avoid offending some homosexuals and feminists.
Credible threats have consequences. Threatening to magically make someone magically vanish lacks credibility.
Tell that to the bible thumpers there.
The traditional punishment for such sorcery is after all death by stoning.
There was also not a police officer in the vicinity to "fear for his life".
All in all, he dodged some bullets there.
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You cannot wash away blood with blood
On second thoughts, don't answer that, a link to it would be too depressing..
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
But based on the article, they also seem like bullshit.
Shitville Texas, wtf do you expect?
...just remember that everything you know about this story is based on a few paragraphs written by a journalist.
There just might be more to it than what's been distilled down to a few paragraphs with the express intent of drawing your eye.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
When my son was in the fourth grade here in Oklahoma, we received a call from his principal because he was, "Trying to sell imaginary tickets, to an imaginary fight, for imaginary money" on the playground at recess. If I was quicker on my feet, I would have told the principal he would receive imaginary punishment for his imaginary crime... Soooo stupid.
Casca
If common sense won out, it would not be news. Most people are more reasonable.
But what is biggest of all is the rampant stupidity.
I've met some idiots in my life, but none which compare to the
idiocy of the average person from Texas.
One child said something to another child. The child believed him and felt threatened by it. Just because a child believes in magic doesn't mean a bully shouldn't get punished for exploiting those fears. Nor does it mean that the adults at that school believe in magic. The only thing they are guilty of are believing that feelings are important, and are concerned when a child feels afraid.
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!
As Maiar, he was created out of the mind of Eru Ilúvatar fully formed like the rest of the Ainur.
And the One Ring was forged some 1,600 years into the Second Age, so Sauron was already very old indeed. /Middle Earth Pedant
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Zero-tolerance policies, in turn, require extraordinary stupidity.
I feel quite bad for the poor boy and the demented lessons he's learning, but...I have to say "Thank you, Principal Greer!" as my girlfriend and I started our day with laughter that brought us to tears! :)
It doesn't make you disappear, it makes you turn invisible. There's a big difference! Clearly the kid and the principal need to re-watch the movies.
You all realize that this is just made up bullshit meant to be funny, right?!!
I was told by sone-one from USA, who was American:
"Here in America, common sense is so rare that it should be seen as a super-power".
By the age of 9, one's parents should have explained that the "magic" in fantasy movies/series/books is not real. Also, the magic in "stage acts", etc. is not the same as "fantasy magic".
Every child should read "magic books" which show card tricks, disappearing acts, illusions... so that they know that "real magic", is not the same as "fantasy magic".
Nice try at the misdirection there, but this isn't about funding.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Take away the ring, and what dose "I'm going to make you disappear" mean? It could mean he was threatening to kill him.
Did he mean it that way? Not likely, but a school can't take that chance.
Best the kids learn early that rational thought and reason does not exist if the words threat, school, sex, gay, religion, race, and more are used in a sentence.
From TFA:
He's already been suspended three times this school year.
Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: "The Big Book of Knowledge."
"He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed," Steward said.
But the teacher learned the popular children's encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Is it draconian?
That's a common misconception.
Bilbo only uses the ring to fool the dragon, the ring was not made or previously owned by said dragon.
It was actually Sauron who forged the ring, as it was explained already in Lord of the Rings.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Having interacted with the Texas school system, there is nothing unbelievable about this story.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Stories about zero tolerance are always quite amusing. Astonishing, even, when you consider that adults are behind these policies. But just because LotR is mentioned, seems a very tenuous reason to be discussing it here. Just saying'...
-- sudon't
Air-ride Equipped
Maybe this kid wasn't mature enough to be watching a PG-13 movie at age 9. Doesn't sound like he is.
Odds are this kid is a PITA and the parents let him be and never hold him accountable.
Nothing i have to say is worth saying.
The reality of this situation is that public schools don't want kids to think and they want nice little sheeple that can easily be harassed for the rest of their lives by Big Bro.
People seem to be missing the point.
A threat is real and actionable if the individual threatened perceived it as real.
So, the question to ask: Did the threatened 9 year old really believe he could be made to disappear?
That seems like something a 9 year old would believe. And, if so, this was technically the correct action.
He was also just suspended, which is a day off of school and doesn't really matter. His parents are obviously not giving him a needed lesson, which is, you can't threaten people, even if it's not possible to follow through on it.
The district superintendent of this school is Mr. Bill Boyd
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Home is behind, the world ahead. And there are many paths to tread...
Someone should alert the NRA* about this.
*National Ring Association
And once for saying another student was "Black".
So basically they've suspended him three times now for BS reasons.
The teacher, principal, and school are clearly bullying this child. Luckily the school district has a web site set up to report bullying...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uCkE8H44AdD7NJp_iMt7G_XaPz5V4pd79wFyOKsMVGg/viewform
Maybe if enough people report this, the district will do something about it.
County seat of Winkler county, one liquor store just outside the city limits ... middle of nowhere Baptist country.
Greer says they have "zero tolerance for threats" (even imaginary ones) and "racial insensitivity". Tell me where that terminology came from. Maybe the other coast. Cali is a bit busy with ACTUAL gang bangers in their schools, aren't they.
He made himself disappear!
We don't like liberals getting all sciency on us and insisting that we descended from monkeys. We don't like our children to have too much knowledge about history, neither - too much liberal stuff goin' on back then. And we dang sure don't want our kids playing with magic. That's the devil's work. If it were up to me, I'd make sure that kid never came back to school and endangered other kids with his science and devil worship.
Nobody suspends a preacher who tells little kids that they will spend eternity in some imaginary hot place if they don't do as he says.
Plenty of Christian denominations would suspend a teacher of hellfire doctrine. These denominations interpret scripture to mean that dead people enter an unconscious state called "the grave" (Heb. sheol; Gk. haides) until they are resurrected during the millennial reign for rehabilitation toward final judgment. After that time, incorrigible people die a second time and enter an unconscious state called everlasting destruction from which there is no resurrection. Their bodies are burned with the garbage in the fire pit (Jerusalem Gk. Gehenna).
Take away the ring, and what dose "I'm going to make you disappear" mean? It could mean he was threatening to kill him.
Did he mean it that way? Not likely, but a school can't take that chance.
It gets even scarier. Another kid said "Excuse me, may I go to the washroom please?" to his teacher.
He may have really wanted to go into the hallway to set off an atomic bomb he had stashed in his backpack, destroying the entire city. If only this bill had been passed the brave teacher would have been allowed to use deadly force to protect global freedom. Instead, all they could do was expel the terrorist in training.
You just can't take any chances at all.
Sorry, but we have a zero-tolerance policy for idiocy. Now everyone has to listen to this speech.
"Mr. Greer, what you've just said... Is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
You can make the story sound as ludicrous as you like but it's still bullying and psychological trauma - the kids needs his hand slapped. (Preferably the one that was wearing the ring.) Besides, it's Texas - I wouldn't put it past your typical 90-year old to believe in stuff like magic rings.
Don't forget getting suspended from bringing a book with this in it...
https://leonsmom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/tbbk1.jpg
Of course I wouldn't be surprised if the library at the school had encyclopedias with the exact same information in it.
The principle in question:
Ms. Roxane Greer, KES Principal
432-586-1020
rgreer@kisd.esc18.net
http://www.edlinesites.net/pages/Kermit_Elementary_School/School_Info/KES_Administration/Roxane_Greer__KES_Principal
Sauron was never young. He came into being at the beginning of time along with the rest of the Ainur.
walk into a Texas classroom and wield magical rings !
( or Pop-Tart firearms )
or exhibit any level of intelligence at the administration level . . . .
Apparently.
Seriously, it's time for parents to quit letting these fucking brain-dead bureaucrats pull this shit. If you're thinking of voting for any politician who takes contributions from the the NEA, then FUCK YOU.
You realize that the NEA doesn't set local school and/or school-board administrative policies - right? They focus on things related to actual education - something Texas ranks 50th (last) among the 50 states, according to this Texas Observer article:
The Texas Legislative Study Group released its 2013 “Texas on the Brink” report at the end of last week. The report is an annual study to determine Texas’ rankings among the 50 states and the District of Columbia on health care, education, and the environment.
How’s Texas doing? Not so great: The state ranks 50th in percentage of high school graduates among its populace, first in amount of carbon emissions, first in hazardous waste produced, last in voter turnout, first in percentage of people without health insurance, and second in percentage of uninsured kids.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I thought Texas thought they were a bunch of tough guys, but instead they suspend a kid for something that's make believe?
Fucking morons.
Yes, it was dumb. Tell the kid off and get back to your day. Imaginary powers (much like angry trolls on a screen) are of no direct consequence - if they are, there's a few Unnatural Phenomena awards you can cash on.
I wanted to suggest that behind the he-said-she-said, the kid was probably showing off the book (the page*, even to some kids, like other generations did with dad's nudiemags or a Sear's catalog lying around. Which, again, tell the kid off and send parents a note to also tell the kid off.
*https://leonsmom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/tbbk1.jpg, supposedly. And looking at it, you can tell their fascination was with something weird and exotic, kind of like telling Billy that one secret word that my dad muttered and it made uncle Joe gasp and I think it's a bad word and I don't actually know what "vagina" means but I'm gonna whisper it to Billy and we're gonna giggle cluelessly at something that we can at least tell is foreign and taboo and that makes it AWESOME nervous giggle goes here now keep your voice down Billy.
I would agree with you if this shit wasn't par for the course. It is more believable that the administrator is an idiot then it is to believe that this has been blown out of proportion.
...crushing someone's head?
Wow... I think in this case the best solution is to change schools. Possibly to change cities/states. Whatever qualifies as "education" there is probably more harmful than good.
I hereby support suspension of all students found to be in possession of the necessary skeletal structure to form a "gun" shape with their hands.
Ban opposable thumbs, for the sake of the children! It's the only way to keep them safe.
Perfectly Normal Industries
Then there's no outrage to be had here. The suspension is justified. We've got a career criminal at work who routinely breaks the rules. You break the rules, you get the punishment. That's how the world works.
How many times do I have to tell you, "You AREN'T a wizard, 'arry!"
An when we had "judgment" and "common sense" the rich kids and the white kids got away with whatever they wanted and the poor & the minorities got the book thrown at them. This is a bed you old farts made for yourself!
I'll bet anything the only reason the poor kid threatened to make him disappear is because the other obnoxious kid was bullying him.
Let's call it what it really is - bullying and child abuse. If we don't stop these zero-tolerance, we'll lose a whole generation and maybe two. The country may never recover from it.
The government likes it because it trains the younger generation to accept tyranny. Get 'em used to following stupid laws and rules when they're young, and you've got 'em for life.
Just say NO to zero-tolerance policies.
"Zero Tolerance" is just the Liberal way of admitting they can't tell reality FROM fantasy. The "One Ring" is "threatening". By this logic, biting a pop-tart into "the shape of a gun" (something most accomplish with the first bite) means it should be treated "as if it were a gun". The UN is caught faking data for global warming, declares "no harm no foul" and then uses the fouled data to fuel it's next cataclysmic global warming report. They tell us the Republicans have a "War on Women", meanwhile most Islamic countries in the world are still cutting off little girl's clitorises to make them "faithful" (or selling them off as "brides" to be used and thrown away in one of Islam's greatest flights of male fantasizing, being a good Muslim by "marrying" your whore before tossing her out on her keister. Yeah, sure, that'll get you your 72 black-eyed virgins). COME BACK FROM LOONEY LAND AND DEAL WITH THE FRICKIN' REAL WORLD!
The state where corporal punishment is legal in schools suspends a kid for a make believe ring and, before that, having a book with a picture of a pregnant woman. What's next, witch trials? They have a school system that is promoting ignorance. Why let kids pretend, use their imaginations and learn? This is just sad and pathetic. Send the entire school's administration back to 1st grade somewhere outside 1400s (aka Texas)
Aides, not Haides.
The H in "Hades" is the Latin-alphabet transliteration of the "rough breathed initial vowel" mark in polytonic Greek. It's the same place the H in "Hellenic" comes from.
And Gehenna is a valley close to Jerusalem, not a fire pit
Gehenna is the Greek transliteration of a Hebrew phrase Ge Hinnom meaning "Valley of Hinnom". This valley is where Jerusalem's garbage was burned. But in any case, it remains true that the Bible describes two different states of nonexistence, "the grave" and "everlasting destruction". And neither is the same thing as the "eternal conscious torment" of hellfire doctrine.
This is fun! Can we get back to topic and pick nits on the spelling of the Black Speech engraved on the inside of Precious?
If you have kids, and you care about them, GET THEM OUT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!!
These failing institutions are run by the dumbest slice of the American society: people who majored in "education", advised by the most evil slice of American society: lawyers. "Education" and "Journalism" were the big two completely subjective and easy majors that draft evaders chose in the 60's and 70's when GPA was more important to a young man than the actual major (service in Vietnam could be avoided by being a college student with a good GPA). The lawyers will take any side of a fight and make any argument for money.
"Zero-Tolerance" is the oft-cited excuse for this garbage (and it does, indeed, play a role) but NOTHING SAYS "zero-tolerance" needs to equate an opposition to actual firearms on a school campus with either a piece of toast chewed into the shape of a gun, or a tiny GI-Joe plastic doll's gun, or a pointed finger accompanied by a child saying "bang", or a toy ring with imaginary powers... THIS garbage is ALL on the backs of uber-obnoxiously-stupid teachers and administrators.
No school teacher in 1950 would have had anything to do with this insanity
Our public schools have become political playthings and indoctrination facilities; they are failing to teach kids the basics of "reading, writing, and arithmetic" plus basic science, geography, some art, some music, US and world history. When political correctness arrived in the schools in the 1990's and ushered-in its leprosy-ridden travelling companions of speech codes, hatred of truth, hatred of self-reliance, hatred of self-defense, and hatred of individuality (for anything other than sexual orientation), the decline of the schools became inevitable.
You can give your kids a far better foundation for life than the modern public schools will. YOU presumably CARE about your kids; the public schools never will. YOU will care about whether your kids are prepared for their chosen careers; the schools only care about getting them through the system. YOU have all the access to all the information in libraries, on the internet, etc and can use any of the resources you think are appropriate for YOUR kids. The schools will only use what's politically correct, to teach what's politically correct, to produce a public that will vote "properly" to support the system... it's become a self-supporting circle of stupidity.
The boy should really have used the ring power and made the other kid disappear. Nobody would have dared to expel him!
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
After all, the kid did turn the teacher into a newt. (And because of Zero Tolerance, the fact that she got better just doesn't excuse it.)
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For fuck's sake. This ring "can make you disappear". Read TFA or at least TFS.
And while we're at it... this tablecloth can make you disappear. This foolish incantation can make you disappear. This Radiohead song can make you disappear. I'm pretty sure a little thinking can make you disappear. PEEKABOO can make you disappear!
... if this weren't Texas, I'd wonder how stupid both the school AND the "threatened" pupil were ...
I'm assuming the principal is a she, not a he - "Roxanne Greer" -- women in education have to have an extra hard line in policy enforcement don'cha'kno', because they're often seen as being inferior/weak by their peers.
What pisses me off here isn't the action, it's the refusal to back up their action. If she truly believes she's doing something correct and proper, why refuse to comment. Should she be allowed to refuse to comment? As a publicly funded educator who has made a decision which impacts the child of a tax payer (I'm assuming) in such a ridiculous situation......can just 'refuse to comment'? Where's the accountability, she should back her decision up with reasoning and logic not silence.
My schooling predates these absurd zero-tolerance policies, which is good seeing as how I told my art class that I was Jesus and sending them to hell. Unfortunately, this backfired on me and I had to give a second oral report.
Uh oh. Peter Jackson has a new movie in development.
Just think what would have happened if he had had a POP-Tart.
They would have mobilized the national; guard and declared martial law.
Remember those who can do, those who can''t teach.
We only have his father's word that this kid has no magic powers.
One ring to rule them all,
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all,
and by the swingset bind them.
People who make these decisions need to be publicly called out and forced onto reality TV. *
I'm a native Texan and proud of it. But this bureaucrat is acting stupid. Kids are mean at times. Just having a 'don't be mean' no-tolerance policy is being mean in my book. Teaching that magic an magic rings just aren't real, things only SEEM magic if you don't have enough understanding of them and the process around it.
Fiction is also good, but so is reality. Learning that we need both in our lives is part of what real education can assist with.
This article was on reddit that did more research to find the kid involved has been in troubled ble for other issues. The kid had brought a kids pregnancy book with explicit photos contained and had referred to another child as a child of color. While it may appear to be as if the school officials are being tough, it's actually more about a problematic child who's parents want to catch some headlines. We as a society should start holding our children as well as the parents accountable for their actions. And really do we think in today's world that a school doesn't understand magic as imaginary? Please stop with challenging the only profession that has less new hires year over year due to many hurdles but more so now that parents want to be right rather than invest time in the children's life and learning
This article was on reddit that did more research to find the kid involved has been in troubled ble for other issues. The kid had brought a kids pregnancy book with explicit photos contained and had referred to another child as a child of color.
While it may appear to be as if the school officials are being tough, it's actually more about a problematic child who's parents want to catch some headlines. We as a society should start holding our children as well as the parents accountable for their actions.
And really do we think in today's world that a school doesn't understand magic as imaginary? Please stop with challenging the only profession that has less new hires year over year due to many hurdles but more so now that parents want to be right rather than invest time in the children's life and learning
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if he had threatened him with a gun, it is Texas after all
no matter how good it is, it is human nature always wants to make things better
The case should be dismissed on the grounds that the school has no governing authority. This is clearly a case for the Department of Underage Magic.
"The wisdom of the Patriarchs was that they *knew* they were fools." --Master Foo
Zero tolerance does not allow the opportunity for anyone to be forgiven, nor will it ever be forgotten, no matter how small the infraction.
For those of you that believe in Jesus, if he supported this kind of ideal he would have never gone to the cross, nor would anyone ever be forgiven even for smallest infraction, thus no one would ever get into heaven.
Sauron was corrupted by Morgoth as a mature Vala.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Impose impunity on children that go around bullying other kids for lunch money or that deserve an ass kicking. Don't punish a kid for using imaginative banter. They should suspend this principal for adhering to stupidity