Brickbat: Bad Assignment

Ramsey McDonald got what he thought was a fun assignment from his fourth-grade teacher: Bring some of your favorite toys to school and talk about them. Among the toys be brought to Miller Elementary School in Warner Robins, Georgia, was a Nerf gun. Yeah, you guessed what happened. He was given a three-day suspension, which was later reduced to a two-day in-school suspension, for bringing a weapon to school.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Brought a weapon to school, eh? So there was a knife hidden in the toy somewhere? I'm not sure educators are properly teaching students the definition of weapon.

[UnCivilServant]

It was the underslung tactical nuke launcher that caused a rukus.

[Marshall Gill]

Anything can be a deadly weapon son. That binder in my hands is more deadly than this bow in yours.

[waffles]

You put exacto knife tips in the darts and then make a fun game shooting a bunch of balloons.

[Unauthorized Journalist]

Why was the child not removed from his abusive parents?

[Snark Plissken]

Reminds me of this joke I once made up:

Why couldn't the German take a shower?

Because he was having a bad day.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

*narrows gaze*

[Snark Plissken]

Besserwisser!

[Vapourwear]

Ausgeseichnet!

[Ted S.]

How do German children tie their shoes?

In little Nazis!

[db]

It took me a bit, but now I feel like I need to bathe.

[db]

When I was in first grade I brought in a fully functioning miniature steam engine for show-and-tell (yes, my Dad taught me the basics of engines and thermodynamics at an early age). I even ran it for the class. Imagine what would happen now. It would be considered a terrorist steam bomb, a burn hazard, and I probably would have been expelled.

[Matrix]

You'd be sent to Gitmo for bringing a WMD to school, terrorist!

[Ted S.]

You'd have gotten a better education being home-schooled.

[db]

My Mom's a teacher (a good one), so what I missed at school she made sure I got.

[Scarecrow Repair]

Ecoterrorist. It probably burned coal, amirite?

[bhavinder]

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[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Hmmm....yesterday we had shoe spam, now wrasslin' spam?!

[UnCivilServant]

Try new SPAM! spam.

[Rhywun]

I'm not clicking on that.

[UnCivilServant]

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[Rhywun]

I don't- like- spam!!

[Roger the Shrubber]

Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.

[UnCivilServant]

*snifles* they were out of the Penne and Spam in their online store.

[Brian D]

Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam!

[Doctor Whom]

Shut up! Bloody Viking spambots.

[waffles]

Hip New York restaurants prove that it's hip to be a square, like SPAM? Brand!

[UnCivilServant]

Translation - "We're so pretentious that the dipshits who pay $500 a plate will eat whatever trash we throw in front of them, even SPAM"

*disclaimer - I actually like spam food product, but I don't claim to be 'hip'

[invisible furry hand]

Thank God! You could put a principal's brain out with that!

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Or, in this case, a gentle puff of air could do the same.... no Nerf dart needed.

[Ted S.]

I think you'd need a microscope for that.

[Libertarian]

So if you get a 2 day suspension for "bringing a gun to school", what would be the punishment if, instead of a nerf gun, it had been a real live pistol? The same two days? Three days?

[UnCivilServant]

Death penalty and demonization as an 'active shooter'.

[Cdr Lytton]

Ramsey should be grateful that the school doesn't have a zero tolerance policy and reduced his sentence.

OT: Any bets on how many articles get posted before Mary shows up today?

[Los Doyers]

Are we agreeing that briannnn is another one of her socks?

[Cdr Lytton]

I think so. It has all the hallmarks of her manic phase.

[Los Doyers]

In that case, I bet 100 monocles that she'll show up on the AM links.

[Matrix]

Nerf "guns" aren't guns. They don't even resemble a real gun. This shit is over the top. Fuck modern schools.

[invisible furry hand]

Can't - they're already fucked

[Roger the Shrubber]

When are administrators going to get run off for this shit. While I don't necessarily agree with a 'no toy guns' policy, it's not an issue worth a fight in my boy's otherwise (for the most part) top-notch public school. But if any administrator thought anything more than merely telling my kid to put it away and don't bring it to school again was a necessary response, and then failed to apologize for and retract such an incorrect response to the situation, I would make it a personal mission in life to make sure that every remaining day of the rest of their life was spent regretting that they ever made such a stupid decision.

[WTF]

"Irate parent Roger the Shrubber arrested and charged for harassing and stalking a school administrator and making terroristic threats. News at 11:00."

[Roger the Shrubber]

I think I would be a little more subtle.

[MegaloMonocle]

Any administrator who thinks they even need to tell him to put it away and don't bring it to school again is an utter fool who should not be tolerated, either.

[kbolino]

It is a toy after all. "Don't bring it to school again" is a little much, but "put it away during class time" seems appropriate.

[FatherBrain]

Maybe they would have accepted the nerf gun if it was made out of a pop tart.

[Steve G]

Yeah, but GA's just a leftie state anyway...this sort of thinking won't spread to the conservative states anytime soon.

[Pope Jimbo]

The truly sad part of this story is that it is no longer shocking and outrageous. Instead we resignedly shrug our shoulders and say "not another one of these".

Half the battle in this is managing expectations. Once you get people to the point where they accept that this sort of crap goes on, you are almost home free.

[Doctor Whom]

But remember: Problems we don't have.

[Rich]

Suppose the kid had brought in a can of Silly String? That's arguably more of a "weapon" than a Nerf gun.

I know -- Stop giving them ideas. 8-(

[Steve G]

I remember the fun I had in middle school with a can of fart spray...

[userve32]

Sounds like a pretty serious plan to me dude.

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[Roger the Shrubber]

If I designed a catapult type device that shot the same nerf projectiles, would it be a weapon? What about those surgical tubing water balloon launchers? What if it was used to launch t-shirts? Ball Bearings?

I worked with the engineering development group at the local vo-tech. They built a pneumatic potato gun, but it was called a t-shirt launcher because went they weren't tuning it to see how far they could shoot a potato, they took it to parades and student demonstrations to 'launch' t-shirts.

[Winston]

Ramsey McDonald

I still haven't gotten over him getting in bed with the Tories.

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