View Full Version : Kid suspended for 10 - talked about guns on school bus
Armybrat
06-06-2013, 11:31 AM
Some school administrators are crazy - this one should be fired, and the LEO who wanted to search the boy's home without a warrant should be reprimanded.
http://pro.wmal-af.tritonflex.com/common/page.php?pt=WMAL+EXCLUSIVE%3A+11-Yr-Old+Suspended+From+School+For+Merely+TALKING+About +Guns&id=26543&is_corp=0
OWINGS, MD -- The father of a middle schooler in Calvert County, Md. says his 11-year-old son was suspended for 10 days for merely talking about guns on the bus ride home.
Bruce Henkelman of Huntingtown says his son, a sixth grader at Northern Middle School in Owings, was talking with friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre when the bus driver hauled him back to school to be questioned by the principal, Darrel Prioleau.
"The principal told me that with what happened at Sandy Hook if you say the word 'gun' in my school you are going to get suspended for 10 days," Henkelman said in an interview with WMAL.com.
So what did the boy say? According to his father, he neither threatened nor bullied anyone.
"He said, I wish I had a gun to protect everyone. He wanted to defeat the bad guys. That's the context of what he said," Henkelman said. "He wanted to be the hero."
The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened."
TheTman
06-06-2013, 12:58 PM
You can't say the word gun, in school now? That is beyond ridiculous. Do we not have a 1st amendment anymore? How do you teach history without mentioning the word Gun, Oh I forgot, they don't teach history anymore except for civil rights activities.
muggsy
06-06-2013, 12:58 PM
There are a-holes and then there are school administrators. Hard to tell the difference these days.
Welcome to my state.
We also suspend kids who chew their pop tarts into mountains that also resemble guns, ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/pop-tart-gun-bill_n_2852472.html
And our governor (O'Malley) successfully passed then signed his huge gun grabbing bill, that outlaws many semi-automatic weapons, caps magazines at 10 rounds, requires fingerprinting and fees on all new gun purchases, etc.
Backed by billionaire Mayor Bloomberg's money he's now running these ads on our local TV:
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And Gov. O'Malley is running for president in 2016 so expect to see him in a presidential primary near you! Of course he won't get it, that will probably go to Hillary, but he'll be happy to accept the Vice Presidential position with an eye towards moving up after Hillary's tenure.
O'Dell
06-06-2013, 01:53 PM
There are a-holes and then there are school administrators. Hard to tell the difference these days.
I think the two terms are synonymous.
jocko
06-06-2013, 02:41 PM
There are a-holes and then there are school administrators. Hard to tell the difference these days.
the administrators mouth is moving, he is an aa$$hole. Just sayin
Armybrat
06-06-2013, 04:14 PM
the administrators mouth is moving, he is an aa$$hole. Just sayin
Jocko, I knew that to be a fact before my first day teaching in a secondary classroom in 1970 (teacher workshop "peptalk").
The two best administrators I ever worked for before that were former Marines and football coaches. No bs from them. They ran a tight ship.
Once the namby-pamby politically correct turds got those competent guys out (claimed they were "dinosaurs"), education started on its handbasket slide.
See, this is a clear case of what's appropriate these days. Kids need to be taught to keep their mouths shut and carry concealed.
jdavis
06-10-2013, 09:03 AM
It's a shame that our society has knuckled under to the progressive agenda. They have successfully convinced us that the gun is the evil as if people are not responsible for evil acts. My wife who wants nothing to do with guns, (years in education field) gets upset when the grandson and I tune in to Gene Autry on the Western Channel. "They use guns on that program and he will be expelled if he mentions it at school". As a kid, I watched hundreds of westerns where the good guys always won out over evil. Our heroes represented the positive values that were taught to kids of the day. Besides that we played cowboys and army with toy guns all day long. I was in many showdowns, gunfights, and wars and I nor any of my playmates (as far as I know) have never done harm to anyone. It's a different world we live in and not a better one I fear.
Armybrat
06-10-2013, 02:23 PM
In the 1950s I played Army with the FN Model D (Belgian-licensed Browning BAR) my Dad had "liberated" from the Germans in WWII. None of the neighbors cared.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdx2w5TO6c1rwjpnyo1_500.jpg
In the 1950s I played Army with the FN Model D (Belgian-licensed Browning BAR) my Dad had "liberated" from the Germans in WWII. None of the neighbors cared.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdx2w5TO6c1rwjpnyo1_500.jpg
Coming from that time I'm only sorta impressed...unless you got to use live ammunition....then I be really impressed.
johnh
06-11-2013, 07:42 AM
I am a school administrator, and my son wears Kahr/MRI t-shirts to school. I must be one of the good ones. ;) This issue really illustrates the cultural divide in America. Where I live, that would never be an issue. Hunting and shooting are as ingrained as baseball and apple pie.
Armybrat
06-11-2013, 09:23 AM
Coming from that time I'm only sorta impressed...unless you got to use live ammunition....then I be really impressed.
No ammo,, of course. Also had two Mauser 98Ks, a Japanese Nambu and two German helmets - I issued those to my friends.
Nobody wanted to be the Japanese.
We donated the FN D BAR to the WWII museum at Camp Mabry in Austin. I saw somewhere online that one of those guns was auctioned off for $12,000 or more, but it had the original case, extra barrel & accessories.
Ours was a DEWAT (plugged breech) with FBI papers.
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