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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He be better of home schooled
Simply stupid, get real.
stupid as s**t
Big Brother is here!!!!
my great nephew got in trouble from his Grandfather (my brother) for making a gun out of a coat hanger—-children should not know the weapons of war and hate….
this has to be a liberal judge, and he should be disbared and removed from the bench, a child this small dosen’t know the difference and he should know that.
Total dumbbells.
Fire the Judge !
There should be a way to remove such an idiot.
Insanity