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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absurd demonstration of stupidity and power.
Home school
Judge probably ate it. Dumb huge should be fired
How stupid! That poor little fella, just being a little boy.
That just shows how ignorant some judges are
and we wonder why more and more people are home schooling
I agree with you,common sense says it’s stupid and this shouldn’t be an issue n a waste of our tax dollars,government lacks education,common sense,ethics because that will take away from their agenda and self importance
How should you eat a pop-tart. This$#%&!@*judge is a left wing fucking Democrat.
Has the whole world gone mad!!!??????!!
That’s no judge… That’s a criminal leftist bastard…