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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This country is dropping into the toilet at warp speed.
Stupid
It has to be a joke really are we as a country that sensitive over a pop tart
Ridiculous
This judge is a moron
This is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS !!! Where are the liberals and the progressives, I guess this incident does not merit their attention and it does not fit their agenda….Pop Tart gun….but a clock does, you even get invited to the White House…he is a White boy soooo…I’m being sarcastic here.
just another thing that shows you just how smart the communist democrats really are I bet the judge was afraid for his life because of this cookie gun and not a very good one at that but you know the mind set of the democrats if they have one
Home school him, he will get a much better education.
P C CARRY TO FAR ,SO SAD
Apparently, the judge is a moron!