things are getting out of hand!

[mudbug3]

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2013/06/07/jensen-nebraska-school-officials-want-boy-named-hunter-to-change-his-name/?subscriber=1

[Dozerlarry]

They are way past "getting out of hand". I couldn't believe this happening in Nebraska. Sounds like something that would happen here in Florida!

[mudbug3]

A 7-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for two days for shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun, according to his father.

FoxBaltimore.com reports that Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, was eating a strawberry tart when he decided to shape it into a mountain.

"All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn't look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun [kind of]," Josh told the station.

Josh, who suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, said his teacher was visibly mad when she saw that the pastry looked like a gun, according to the report.

The boy's dad, who was not identified in the report, was later notified that Josh had been suspended for two days for fashioning the pastry into a gun.

A letter was sent home with students explaining that "a student used food to make an inappropriate gesture," the station reported.

School officials declined to a request for comment from FoxBaltimore.com due to privacy issues


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/05...#ixzz2VZmIRiLS

[marshgunner]

When I was in high school, a few of the guys that were on the trap shooting team were allowed to keep their shotguns in their lockers to keep them from being stolen in the parking lot. What the heck!!!!

[mudbug3]

I found this post about another child.

' something similar happened to my kid a few years ago - his was a plastic fork and he used the wrong word "I have a knife in my pocket - forgot to throw it away in the lunch room" It was a plastic fork. Suspended. In first grade.'

silly MD public schools

[PlumCrazy]

"and the hits just keep on coming"

Education World: Stop Tolerating Zero Tolerance

[PlumCrazy]

You know I was just sitting here at Ford Livonia Transmission, babysitting a new machine we GAVE them to use for year and thinking (I know it's dangerous) about all the stuff I/we did as a kid, and didn't get suspended.

1) put a bottle of mom's blue food dye in the high school pool one night, every one came out looking like blue smurfs (this was before SMURFS). You didn't notice the blue until we got out. Yep, we were the 1st class in and the last.

2) put a VW Beetle body w/cloth sun roof in the HS fountain. We had to block and tackle that dam thing up 2 floors and down to get to the fountain that was in an enclosed center area.

3) put a bottle of my mom's green LUX dish washing soap in the HS pool. "Tiny Bubbles" my ass!

4) hooked up a phonograph w/ microphone to the HS intercom system so we could play vinyl Rock tunes instead of that elevator music. It actually worked pretty good until I keyed the microphone to play disc jockey and the %^*&@%# voltage from the intercom came back and shocked me so bad it threw me back against the wall with the mic still in my hand. Luckily Maury had the sense to unplug it, of course he helped me hook it up too!

5) dumped a bunch of hydrogen sulfide on the floor of the schools cafeteria to protest the s*i*ty food we were getting. Did you know that stuff is poisonous? Me either... No body died though!!!!

6) 5 of us guys took the cement 'Rooster' from the putt-putt golf late one night, lifted it into Gregs dads F350 and put it on Mayor Levin's front yard. I was going out with his daughter Harriet at the time. It made the local newspaper headline, "MAYOR has something to crow about", I don't remember if I dated Harriet after that.??

7) glued down the hurtles on the HS track.

8) taped the Playboy centerfolds to the roll up screen that Mr. Chevalier was going to use in class next hour, yep our class. He never did give them back!!!! His uncle was the actor Maurice Chevalier.

9) tied Principle Jones side view mirrors to the cyclone fence posts that were in front of his parking spot he pulled into, used the wire from my dad's walleye hand lining reel. Sweet! I really thought I was going to get suspended for that one, but NO.

10)......

and never once got suspended, sanded a few thousand desks if I recall correctly!

These people just GOT to LIGHTEN UP!

[rodp]

We haven't got it that bad over here ..................yet !

What you need to do is a little surveillance and digging on some of the tutors, zero tolerance should mean they out if found to have broken ANY law, even motoring. Fair's fair after all.

[dzg]

You know I was just sitting here at Ford Livonia Transmission, babysitting a new machine we GAVE them to use for year and thinking (I know it's dangerous) about all the stuff I/we did as a kid, and didn't get suspended.

1) put a bottle of mom's blue food dye in the high school pool one night, every one came out looking like blue smurfs (this was before SMURFS). You didn't notice the blue until we got out. Yep, we were the 1st class in and the last.

2) put a VW Beetle body w/cloth sun roof in the HS fountain. We had to block and tackle that dam thing up 2 floors and down to get to the fountain that was in an enclosed center area.

3) put a bottle of my mom's green LUX dish washing soap in the HS pool. "Tiny Bubbles" my ass!

4) hooked up a phonograph w/ microphone to the HS intercom system so we could play vinyl Rock tunes instead of that elevator music. It actually worked pretty good until I keyed the microphone to play disc jockey and the %^*&@%# voltage from the intercom came back and shocked me so bad it threw me back against the wall with the mic still in my hand. Luckily Maury had the sense to unplug it, of course he helped me hook it up too!

5) dumped a bunch of hydrogen sulfide on the floor of the schools cafeteria to protest the s*i*ty food we were getting. Did you know that stuff is poisonous? Me either... No body died though!!!!

6) 5 of us guys took the cement 'Rooster' from the putt-putt golf late one night, lifted it into Gregs dads F350 and put it on Mayor Levin's front yard. I was going out with his daughter Harriet at the time. It made the local newspaper headline, "MAYOR has something to crow about", I don't remember if I dated Harriet after that.??

7) glued down the hurtles on the HS track.

8) taped the Playboy centerfolds to the roll up screen that Mr. Chevalier was going to use in class next hour, yep our class. He never did give them back!!!! His uncle was the actor Maurice Chevalier.

9) tied Principle Jones side view mirrors to the cyclone fence posts that were in front of his parking spot he pulled into, used the wire from my dad's walleye hand lining reel. Sweet! I really thought I was going to get suspended for that one, but NO.

10)......

and never once got suspended, sanded a few thousand desks if I recall correctly!

These people just GOT to LIGHTEN UP!

I about died laughing at #7

[Dan67]

Its amazing some of the stuff we did as a kid and never really got in trouble.. Just amazement from others on our imagination and creativity.

My groups senior class prank was a hoot. Our HS was towards the end of a major renovation and additions. We got a new gym and locker room facility that had beautiful roof with high walls. We acquired a gene boom and used it to build a 20'x20' sandbox and filled it with potting soil, fresh compost, and plant food spikes. Then we planted a few hundred marijuana seeds. We ran a water line up one gutter and set it on a timer. Then we left it up and never returned. Several months later after the next school year started, the sheriff's helicopter just happened to flyby and see our handy work.. 12' plants growing on the school roof. No one could see the plants as they grew.

[mudbug3]