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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Stupid.
The picture where someone is hold up what is supposed to look like a gun, looks more like the state of Florida than a gun.
Looks like the letter L to me
Anyone who thinks the boy should be held accountable is wrong. This country is in trouble because of stupidity like this.
and now I see they buried my comment- – -grrrrrr- – –
Load of b******t.
it WAS an automatic assault pop tart- see the high capacity sprinkles>…
it just looks like Florida to me.
( MORONS’ )Nobody has the right to ” not be offended” !!!!
….get over yourselves
No wonder the country is going to hell!!! It’s a poptart not a gun!!!!!