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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That judge should be removed from the bench.
Chicago police shoot that boy no waste of time!!!
Clock boy got paid … Glock boy needs an education too maybe someone can help him too. Or is it just terrorists and thugs that defend their own.
That is one idiotic judge.
Wow
So now they want to ban pop tarts. Or is it only semi automatic pop tarts.
And they wonder why respect for the law and judges is diminishing. When a Judge can’t get something as simple as this right, what hope is there for the rest of us. Cmon guys,,, a pop tart ? give me a break
Did this kid have his CWP permit on him? LOL
Wtf?
It’s a double threat: gun shaped sugar.