Girl, 5, suspended for a bringing a "gun" to school

[dead0man]

Is "zero tolerance' always really stupid, or just 98% of the time?

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Yeah, we do this stupid sh**t all the time!

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We even acknowledge that they are not real weapons, but we don't care about stupid details like that!  It's not about safety, it's about covering our asses.

[dead0man]

OP didn't deliver link or context.

Not sure how I missed that, I'm normally very good with the links and what not.  My apologies.

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It's dead0man, so I'm not really remotely surprised.

Didn't know you were a fan, but you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.  Feel free to look through all my thread starting posts and show me all the times I do that.  Good luck.

[dead0man]

and I had the link in the OP, just not formatted properly.

[dead0man]

Your snippet doesn't say what she actually brought to school. Was it a neon green plastic squirtgun, or was it something more realistic?

Perhaps if the girl was Muslim this would be a bigger story?

[dead0man]

Now that I saw what it was it doesn't seem like a big issue. The school has the right to prohibit these (and is right to ban things that look like weapons). A suspension is a bit much, but it doesn't deserve an outcry considering unfair punishments are quite common overall.

Unfair punishments should always be called out.  It doesn't matter if there are too many of them.

[dead0man]

It's a gun that blows bubbles. I agree with OP, except for the random swipe at Muslims later in the thread.

That wasn't a swipe at Muslims, it was a swipe at the people (99% of whom were not Muslims) that thought clock boy was some kind of a hero victim when he was really just an attention seeking ass.

[dead0man]

Most hairdryers look more like guns that thing does, but yeah, that would be stupid too.

[dead0man]

Just so we're clear, nobody here is "worked up" over this.

[dead0man]

If she brought "real" scissors?  Yeah, probably.

[dead0man]

You're not blaming her parents enough.  Proper helicopter paranting has you digging through your 5 year old's backpack every morning before school.  <bad German accent, like Col Klink for the 5 of you over the age of 30> You never know what CONTRABAND you'll find in the backpacks of these "children".   HOOOOOGAN!!!!!!

[dead0man]

Perhaps if the girl was Muslim this would be a bigger story?

If the girl was Muslim I'd suspect that the exact same crowd outraged by this story would agree with the school's decision to suspend her.

well you'd be wrong

[dead0man]

Perhaps if the girl was Muslim this would be a bigger story?

If the girl was Muslim I'd suspect that the exact same crowd outraged by this story would agree with the school's decision to suspend her.

well you'd be wrong

Just saying, 'clock boy' was suspended for bringing a 'bomb' to school, and that time, it was the conservatives who were saying 'better safe than sorry'.

Not here.  You're free to look through the thread we had here.  I got to page 3 just now and nobody suggested the kid should have been arrested or suspended.  Many of us thought he was a bit daft for bringing a wired device with a clock on it to school, hidden in a backpack, that started beeping in the middle of class....but that's not the same thing at all.

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obviously