16 y/o High Schooler Suspended for Gunning Down a Dinosaur... Sort of...
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16 y/o High Schooler Suspended for Gunning Down a Dinosaur... Sort of...
It’s only August, but an overzealous teacher and some overzealous cops have already landed a high school student in serious trouble for having — or, in this case, merely imagining — something that represents a weapon, but isn’t actually anything remotely like a real weapon.
The student, 16-year-old Alex Stone, was busted after he wrote about using a gun to kill a dinosaur earlier this week.
Stone, who attends Summerville High School in a distant suburb of Charleston, S.C., found himself both suspended and arrested after he completed a required class assignment, Charleston CBS affiliate WCSC reports.
For the introductory assignment, Stone’s teacher asked him and his classmates to write something about themselves and their current status — like something you might write on Facebook.
Stone decided to write a fictional story wherein he slew a dinosaur. He used the word “gun.” He used the words “take care of business” as well.
“I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business,” the blond, baby-faced teenager told WCSC.
The teacher apparently failed to understand that he was writing a fictional account about killing a species of animal that went extinct about 65 million years ago.
Then, the teacher contacted school administrators, who promptly suspended Stone for the remainder of the week.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/21/high-school-kid-arrested-for-writing-about-shooting-a-dinosaur/#ixzz3B3dLnQAt
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Hi Indy. Welcome to the site. Hope you enjoy.
As for your OP, teacher and principal are kinda like the blind the leading blind. And they are the ones in charge??
As for your OP, teacher and principal are kinda like the blind the leading blind. And they are the ones in charge??
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Welcome Indy (may I call you that, as your name is rather long lol?)
That teacher obviously,wasn't reading what the student wrote properly! Talk about make an idiot of themselves.
That teacher obviously,wasn't reading what the student wrote properly! Talk about make an idiot of themselves.
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Hi, OQ. Thanks for the warm welcome! It’s much appreciated!
I agree with your sentiments, in regards to the article.
Hi, Eddie! Indy sounds like a great nickname. Feel free to use it!
Out of curiosity…
Does anyone feel that the consequences imposed on this kid was warranted and appropriate?
I ask because I've read stories of punishments handed out by schools on students that "violate" their zero-tolerance policies regarding guns/weapons, like the stories highlighted in this link:
http://www.tnonline.com/2014/aug/19/zero-tolerance
I agree with your sentiments, in regards to the article.
Hi, Eddie! Indy sounds like a great nickname. Feel free to use it!
Out of curiosity…
Does anyone feel that the consequences imposed on this kid was warranted and appropriate?
I ask because I've read stories of punishments handed out by schools on students that "violate" their zero-tolerance policies regarding guns/weapons, like the stories highlighted in this link:
http://www.tnonline.com/2014/aug/19/zero-tolerance
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No absolutely not! I am failing to understand what exactly he did wrong?
If I were his parents I'd be going bananas over this.
It's bloody stupid.
If I were his parents I'd be going bananas over this.
It's bloody stupid.
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IndependentThoughts wrote:Hi, OQ. Thanks for the warm welcome! It’s much appreciated!
I agree with your sentiments, in regards to the article.
Hi, Eddie! Indy sounds like a great nickname. Feel free to use it!
Out of curiosity…
Does anyone feel that the consequences imposed on this kid was warranted and appropriate?
I ask because I've read stories of punishments handed out by schools on students that "violate" their zero-tolerance policies regarding guns/weapons, like the stories highlighted in this link:
http://www.tnonline.com/2014/aug/19/zero-tolerance
Welcome, Indy (you could have a kick-ass avatar with that nickname).
The only thing I can think that would make this story *slightly* less stupid is if the teacher skipped over the fact that it was a dinosaur the kid killed in the story and just fixated on the other aspects, and was worried about the kid's mental state or something. That's all I've got anyway
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I'm sorry but WTF???????
If this is the case then what about all the literature or television shows/movies that feature guns? Gonna get rid of it all or throw away some of the finest words ever written? be very interesting to look in the school library and see what's there.......smack my head.....
Hi Indy and welcome
If this is the case then what about all the literature or television shows/movies that feature guns? Gonna get rid of it all or throw away some of the finest words ever written? be very interesting to look in the school library and see what's there.......smack my head.....
Hi Indy and welcome
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Cass wrote:I'm sorry but WTF???????
If this is the case then what about all the literature or television shows/movies that feature guns? Gonna get rid of it all or throw away some of the finest words ever written? be very interesting to look in the school library and see what's there.......smack my head.....
Hi Indy and welcome
I know cass. I've gotta think there's something more behind this. We're not hearing the whole thing in the press.
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Original Quill wrote:Cass wrote:I'm sorry but WTF???????
If this is the case then what about all the literature or television shows/movies that feature guns? Gonna get rid of it all or throw away some of the finest words ever written? be very interesting to look in the school library and see what's there.......smack my head.....
Hi Indy and welcome
I know cass. I've gotta think there's something more behind this. We're not hearing the whole thing in the press.
I get it about schools taking precautions.....I get zero tolerance for REAL AS OPPOSED TO FICTIONAL objects....I remember Columbine and all the others but seriously? ??? The clue was PET DINOSAUR......honestly some people are too stupid.
as you say there has GOT to be more to this that would still then warrant a suspension or if not then this school 's leadership needs a serious talking to....
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Cass wrote:Original Quill wrote:
I know cass. I've gotta think there's something more behind this. We're not hearing the whole thing in the press.
I get it about schools taking precautions.....I get zero tolerance for REAL AS OPPOSED TO FICTIONAL objects....I remember Columbine and all the others but seriously? ??? The clue was PET DINOSAUR......honestly some people are too stupid.
as you say there has GOT to be more to this that would still then warrant a suspension or if not then this school 's leadership needs a serious talking to....
Acknowledging the whole Columbine and general school shooting thing, there is a real look over there, don't look over here quality about this story. I get that they are trying to link the two narratives up, but it isn't working. This is not a story about school shootings, or even a real shooting. It doesn't threaten anyone, nor does it threaten anything.
Something's rotten in this (school district) Denmark.
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xtras wrote:when all you see & read in the media are stories involving weapons, killings with knives & guns, the teenager put pen to paper & came up with his version... the version from his own imagination, well done to him poor bugger will be scared to write now!
lucky he didn't write about a burning bush, or the parting of the sea,or some bloke walking on water! he would have been on death row!!
these jobsworths get right up my nose....
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xtras wrote:when all you see & read in the media are stories involving weapons, killings with knives & guns, the teenager put pen to paper & came up with his version... the version from his own imagination, well done to him poor bugger will be scared to write now!
lucky he didn't write about a burning bush, or the parting of the sea, he would have been on death row!!
these jobsworths get right up my nose....
Well said, Xtras. I get that firearms are a danger, and the killings in schools are too numerous. But you can also take a strategic narrative like that, and twist it to malign someone who has no part in it.
That is not to minimize the importance or dangers posed by open-carry or firearms generally. It's to say, merely, that it is irrelevant when considering a fictional piece written by a student in response to a school assignment.
I mean, what's next...Goldilocks and the East 14th Street gangs?
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Original Quill wrote:xtras wrote:when all you see & read in the media are stories involving weapons, killings with knives & guns, the teenager put pen to paper & came up with his version... the version from his own imagination, well done to him poor bugger will be scared to write now!
lucky he didn't write about a burning bush, or the parting of the sea, he would have been on death row!!
these jobsworths get right up my nose....
Well said, Xtras. I get that firearms are a danger, and the killings in schools are too numerous. But you can also take a strategic narrative like that, and twist it to malign someone who has no part in it.
That is not to minimize the importance or dangers posed by open-carry or firearms generally. It's to say, merely, that it is irrelevant when considering a fictional piece written by a student in response to a school assignment.
I mean, what's next...Goldilocks and the East 14th Street gangs?
hahahhaa!! i like the Goldilocks one
totally agree with your post!
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how about Snow White and the 7 crack heads?
excellent posts guys....
excellent posts guys....
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