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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Time to retire this judge !!
This is stupid..stupid !
Our government can’t locate terrorist in the USA but boy they can find a way to get a kid in grammar school with a pop tart shaped gun!!
HOW DISGUSTING,!!!
This judge needs to be removed from the bench. Come on, it’s a pop tart, anyone with any brains can see the. This world has went to hell and seems to like it there
Ridiculous
Judge needs to be kicked off the bench..he’s a brain dead Obama bitch
This is getting way beyond dumb ass
BS
That’s so stupid.