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 judge should be fired and everyone who is involved with this ridiculous nonsense of punishing this little boy for eating his Pop-Tart that looks like a shape of a gun should all be fired and sued
PC as a means of control. It is radical stupidity jihad.
I’ve said it b4, another not so honorable judge. Seems like they’re coming out of the woodwork!
Every Kid did it I did it ofcourse Guns wern’t illegal in school in 1967!
Thank God they got this monster off the school grounds. If that thing had gone off it could have sprayed some poor kid with that obnoxious jam inside and if they lived through it the trauma would surely haunt them forever.
This is over the top. People are now so into exaggerating everything and are loving being offended. Maybe the boys dad is a hunter or a trap shooter. If that’s the case, guns are possibly prevalent in his life.
Must be another Obama appointee. This this is ludicrous. If it had been a cross I suspect it would have been the same. But ok if it was a Mexican flag or a mock up of the Koran. Vote republican folks or it is only going to get worse.
Don’t ever question why children grow up to have no respect for the law. Don’t ever question why kids think the law is a joke automated by fools.
I’m sure a lot of children are harmed by pop tarts but it sure as hell can’t shoot anyone ! Dumb Asses !!