A judge upheld the harsh punishment of a student for “disruptive” classroom behavior.
In almost any other circumstance, you’d read that previous sentence and wonder what all the fuss is about. After all, making sure students do not engage in inappropriate or even dangerous behavior is something that we expect educators to do. But when you consider what the school in question decided was “disruptive” behavior, you’ll understand why people are raising such a fuss.
Back in 2013, second grader Joshua Welch chewed a pastry he brought for breakfast into the shape of a gun, pretending to fire it as young boys are wont to. That would have been the end of it, hadn’t administrators took it upon themselves to investigate this serious matter and conclude that Welch had committed a major offense.
As punishment for this act of infamy, the school suspended the hapless student, a punishment regarded as disproportionate by many but somehow found reasonable by a circuit judge.
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Crazy–just likes a partially eaten pop tart to me!
OUR JUDGES ARE A BUNCH OF MORON HELLO THIS JUDGE NEEDS TO BE FIRED AND OFF THE BENCH, WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN AMERICA GOING ON AND THIS JUDGE DOES THIS TO A CHILD HELLO FIRE HIM OR HER.
ohh wen need to take the “L” out of the alphebet turned side ways it resembles a gun
Just fuckin’ ludicrus !
Pure stupidity.
Leading us all to wonder what happened to the education of our judges?! This guy should be a janitor somewhere ( no slur intended to janitors) instead of a judge. This is the most ridiculous thing in the world, even the libtards should be cringing.
Me too, take this boy to Disneyland and anywhere else he wants to go during his suspension. What a bunch of idiots!
for real. wow
Dumbass must be a democrat
Boy talk about bs