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 garbage has been going one for too long, I got a 98 day suspension back in the day (I was 14 and am 31 now) for facsimile of drug paraphernalia for joking about crushing up smarties… It has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with profit!
If that kid ever shot me with his pop tart rounds you just Don’t know how fast I would eat them.
This is just pure$#%&!@*no other word will work.
But,a boy can bring in what to me and the teacher what looked like a bomb and he is invited to the White House?
Idiots ! No respect Judge
And add prison time for this offense . It’s really bad.. And try him as a terrorist. The judge is a hero..
Kids being kids
yet do nothing when a 5 year old raped by musliums
are you kidding me , retards all of them
So they suspended that child. Take him out if the. !