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Third grader suspended for inch long G. I. Joe gun.
2004-02-26, 2:10 PM #1
How crazy is this?

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A third-grader at Sun Valley Elementary was suspended this week for bringing a G.I. Joe toy handgun to school.

Austin Crittenden, 9, and his family say the school in eastern Birmingham went too far by sending him home for bringing a tiny plastic handgun that accompanied a G.I. Joe action figure.
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Seems to me grade schools are seriously becoming more and more like prisons. I mean thats insane.

It seems he has since been reinstated. At least they did have some sense.

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2004-02-26, 2:11 PM #2
Well he could have shoved that down some kids throat and choked him!!

Or you know.. not. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2004-02-26, 2:18 PM #3
When I saw "suspended," I at first though some kids hung him upside down until they gave him the gun.

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2004-02-26, 2:20 PM #4
Gosh... i remember being in 3rd grade... my friends and I used to play with those toy guns that shoot plastic pellets out in the woods behind the playground during recess. (now that i think of it, we kinda still do (airsoft) haha... oh thats kinda funny).

being taken out of school for a tiny toy gun is... stupid.

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2004-02-26, 2:21 PM #5
Haha, poor kid.
2004-02-26, 2:30 PM #6
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Skrompy:
Seems to me grade schools are seriously becoming more and more like prisons. I mean thats insane.
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Actually, I doubt they'd go that far in a prison.

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2004-02-26, 2:32 PM #7
The suspension for taking Motrin is even owrse.

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2004-02-26, 2:33 PM #8
"Possible punishments for a Class III violation such as this one include expulsion and alternative school, she said."

Alternitive school for a frelling toy gun that could hardly be used to choke anouther kid? This, people, is what insanity looks like.

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2004-02-26, 2:39 PM #9
When I was in 3rd grade I brought G.I. Joe to school with his m16 and frag grenades. No one ever bothered ME about it. That's ridiculous...

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2004-02-26, 2:48 PM #10
When I was in that grade this other kid and I brought Star Wars: Micromachines ( I miss them [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif] ) to school and played with them. We never got in trouble for having the Death star or the rancor... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-02-26, 4:48 PM #11
That is ridiculous... unless you know, the kid is Stewart Little. Then it's like 1:1 scale and totally different.

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2004-02-26, 4:57 PM #12
even still it's not functional

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2004-02-26, 5:01 PM #13
i had some GI Joes that i took for show and tell back when i was in like 1st grade and they all had guns one even had a sniper rifle so OMG I MUST BE A SCHOOL SHOOTER AND A SNIPER...


thats like my friend's brother who got threatened with expulsion over drawing a picture of an AMERICAN SOLDIER who happened to have a gun (which the guy in the drawing wasn't even firing) he got out of it when his parents showed up and had a long talk with the principal...

the moral of this story... if your teachers and principal are retards don't even draw a picture with a gun in it if you draw a soldier make sure he is pointing a fish at his enemies

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2004-02-26, 5:02 PM #14
The school systems are a little overreactive in these areas. Near the end of my 7th grade, my friend brought a little water gun to school (empty, but not like he couldn't fill it up in the bathroom), and he got expelled. He didn't even "shoot" anyone. They let him back in the next year, though.

I should have gotten at least suspended for what I did. I stuck a paper clip in the light switch and shorted out the classroom! I got a talk with my principle and my mom, and that was it.

There was another thing I wanted to mention, but I forgot. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-02-26, 5:03 PM #15
Not fish, walkie-talkies. =)
2004-02-26, 6:44 PM #16
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2004-02-26, 7:39 PM #17
Better to send all these idiots to the moon so we can live on earth without them.

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2004-02-27, 2:31 AM #18
i like eather of thoes ideas

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2004-02-27, 3:17 AM #19
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Seems to me grade schools are seriously becoming more and more like prisons.
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Yep, it now seems that schools focus more on keeping students in line, then really teach us something.

My math teacher one day keep us outside the class because one person had their foot "out of line" or one person was whispering to someone, we waited out there for almost the whole class period when we should have been inside LEARNING SOMETHING.

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2004-02-27, 3:45 AM #20
I wanna know in what manner they caught the child with the gun. Untill then, I cannot give my opinion.

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2004-02-27, 7:38 AM #21
They planted it on him of course:P Schools are freakin ignorant about that stuff. I'm going to home school my kid cause he would learn stuff and get disciplined.

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2004-02-27, 8:07 AM #22
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Better to send all these idiots to the moon so we can live on earth without them.

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ONE OF THESE DAYS! BAM! POW! STRAIGHT TO THE MOON!

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2004-02-27, 8:55 AM #23
I remember after 4-20-1999, when my state banned ANY first-person computer games (this would include things like Myst).

Later, I remember playing The hunt for Al-Qaeda at school. Of course, I got the opportunity to use Bush's defense: It was patriotic. The teacher finally agreed that they really couldn't find anything wrong with the game, but reccomended that I didn't play it, in case the board of education came around.

Of course, by now, my brother plays UT2k4 at school. Then again, the school system's technicians falsely assumed that the program Deep Freeze, along with not allowing student access to the HDD, would prohibit anybody from insalling/playing games, or using anything aside from Microsoft Works (MS Office was absent), and Internet Explorer. I could rant on and on about the incompetence of the system's computer people, but I don't want to drag this off-topic.

So, to sum it up, It just astounds me that the general public gets so freaked out over things like this. Handguns are only #3 for instruments of killing (40k deaths/year); #2 is automobiles (50k deaths/year), and #1 is tobacco (380k deaths/year). There have only been a handful of incidents of children killing others with guns, but nobody is up in arms about the often-fatal dangers of the automobile...

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2004-02-27, 9:04 AM #24
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thats like my friend's brother who got threatened with expulsion over drawing a picture of an AMERICAN SOLDIER who happened to have a gun (which the guy in the drawing wasn't even firing) he got out of it when his parents showed up and had a long talk with the principal...

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That is totally f***ed up.

whatever happened to free speech? I would personally set the ACLU loose on these people.



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2004-02-27, 9:14 AM #25
I'd rather my kid play with a G.I. Joe then with the "Crack Whore Barbie Playset" Barbie teaches people to be slutty and thin :P

Damn schools. A kid just got suspended for saying that his amplifier box was a bomb at my school. He was walking down the hall, and he says "This is no amp! It's a bomb!" got sent to the "office" and got 2 days suspension.

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2004-02-27, 11:11 PM #26
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ONE OF THESE DAYS! BAM! POW! STRAIGHT TO THE MOON!

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Its bang! zoom! STRAIGHT TO THE MOON!

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2004-02-27, 11:26 PM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Keith Marshall:
When I was in that grade this other kid and I brought Star Wars: Micromachines ( I miss them [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif] ) to school and played with them. We never got in trouble for having the Death star or the rancor... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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I have the rancor! Its so cool!


I must admit, the way you get the figures out was rather funny, when I found out I thought it was rather silly. for those who don't know: its *** opens up (tail) and the figures drop out. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/rolleyes.gif]


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2004-02-28, 6:44 AM #28
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Elana14:
i like eather of thoes ideas

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Preferably not both though [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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Sweet irony...
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2004-02-28, 6:46 AM #29
Wow, thats bull****.

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2004-02-28, 6:57 AM #30
Pah. That's nothing. Back in the good ol' days, I used to bring grenades into infant school.

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2004-02-28, 7:06 AM #31
Actually, the my middle school's paranoid-ness accounted for one of the best school days of my life.

We were near the end of the third-to-last class, when the fire alarm went off. I was shuffled out with everyone else to the large field near my school. While we were waiting, we figured out that it wasn't a drill becasue 1.) We were spending way too long outside for it to be a drill, and 2.) The fire trucks weren't already there, but they started to show up, along with the police!

When we were finally let back in (with no damage done to the school) it was the end of the second-to-last class (Yes! Awesome!) As we were packing up to go to our next classes, the PA came on saying that the school had received an unmarked package in the mail and that is had been ticking. It turns out, after careful inspection, that the package contained a calculator that had been sent to the school.

Hilharious! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-02-28, 7:34 AM #32
Why was a calculator ticking?

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2004-02-28, 10:19 AM #33
damn, american schools should all close until the teachers have flushed all the stupid out of their systems.

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2004-02-28, 10:43 AM #34
All that is... Just seriously wrong.
2004-02-28, 11:09 AM #35
Back in my day, the teachers gave us guns so we could fight off the Indians.

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2004-02-28, 7:02 PM #36
Mystic0, that sounds like fun!

Since when do WE ever get to have guns? Hmm?
*silence*
I thought so.

Let's take out the Al Queda (sp? - nobody really gives a rip about spelling! Lets just kick them silly!!!)

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