Kid suspended for toy gun in (virtual) class

[Ziggy2525]

You can’t make this stuff up. People have officially lost their minds due to COVID.

12 year old was participating in virtual class from home using Zoom. Teacher spotted what the teacher thought was a toy gun in the boys room. Teacher requests the the sheriff go to the boys house to investigate and school suspended the boy for bringing a toy gun to class. Here’s a link to the story.

12-year-old suspended after teacher spots toy gun during virtual class | Fox News

 

[Racer X]

I'm speechless.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Maybe we need legislation about School Boards and Administrations with toy brains!

I think this family just hit the "Lawyer Lotto" and will soon be several hundred thousand dollars richer (minus lawyer fees and/or commissions!)

Ivan

 

[7shooter]

Maybe it was only a virtual suspension.

 

[CCantu357]

I hope the family contacts a lawyer. This is one of the most ridiculous things I have seen lately. Whatever happened to the idea that police should only be called when a crime is committed?

 

[ACORN]

They’ll probably make him stay home from school.

 

[Racer X]

They’ll probably make him stay home from school.

Yeah. How will this work?

 

[S42N8]

And yet this is the pattern that leads to seizure. Red flag laws/“welfare checks” (Fourth Amendment be damned) and surveillance devices in the home (Alexa, Siri). There need not be an actual threat (virtual will do just fine) and the law is at your door.

 

[steelslaver]

What do they do if the kid has one of those dangerous toy lions or dinosaurs in their room?

Bunch of Nit Wits running the school.

 

[vonn]

People need to take back their school boards from the idiots that have taken over the education system in most of the country. Education reform is overdue. Most of the time they graduate kids who don’t have even basic life skills .

 

[dockmurgw]

People need to take back their school boards from the idiots that have taken over the education system in most of the country. Education reform is overdue. Most of the time they graduate kids who don’t have even basic life skills .

And the colleges that pump out these idiot teachers...and the parents that allow these teachers to poison their kids minds.

 

[Jim R]

My friends, this is what happens when you let the inmates run the asylums.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

WOW.....just wow..................

 

[Justin T]

So wrong on so many levels.

 

[ACORN]

Yeah. How will this work?

That was my point

 

[loknload]

People need to get their heads unstuck!
I somewhat laugh at this statement....

The boy’s mother said the punishment didn’t fit the crime.

Tell me where exactly was a crime ? Sheriff should be embarrassed for looking into this! Pandering to idiots?
Back when my kids were in school this would have never flushed!

 

[Absalom]

Okay, so now that everybody has had a chance for some outraged virtue signalling, let’s bring this back down to Earth.

The reported five-day suspension does seem a ridiculous overreaction. But hey, Americans have been in love with minimum-sentencing laws and such that remove all discretion from the justice system; if A, then B, and don’t let logic interfere. That kind of thinking then leads to nonsense like this, which I’m sure is the result of blindly applying real-class rules to virtual class.

Otherwise, all we have is the parents’ outraged claims about how little the kid did with that toy gun. At least as reported on local Fox Denver, according to the sheriffs report, there was another boy present who did point the gun at the computer, and pulled the trigger. And the vice principal didn’t “call the cops”, but sent a school resource officer to ascertain that it was indeed a toy gun, which seems reasonable to me.

 

[Sistema1927]

The lunacy has passed the tipping point.

 

[jimbo728]

Good thing they did not spot a model of a B 52 or worse yet a Ryder box truck.
I feel bad for the 12 y/o kid.
Jim

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Big Brother IS watching you ! Welcome to 1984.