Student suspended for play in his yard
USMCE8Ret sends a link from Fox News about 7th grader Khalid Caraballo who was playing in his own yard with an Airsoft pistol before the bus came to pick him up when a neighbor saw the children playing and called the police. Young Kalid was suspended from school under it’s “zero tolerance” policy in regards to guns. I saw the story last night, but the school hadn’t weighed in yet. Apparently they have now;
In a letter obtained by WAVY.com, school principal Matthew Delaney found that the “children were firing pellet guns at each other, and at people near the bus stop.” Delaney states in the letter that one child “was only 10 feet from the bus stop, and ran from the shots being fired, but was still hit.”
The school’s so-called “zero-tolerance” policy on guns extends to private property, according to the report.
Yeah, I think they need to check their copy of the Constitution. The school claims that the kids were playing “within 10 feet” of a bus stop. So? Do the schools understand who are their employers? They work for us. And this is a “zero-minus tolerance” policy. Clearly the school has stepped outside the boundaries of their responsibilities. Maybe they’d like to send a list of approved activities for students to engage in at their homes under the supervision of their parents, too. I guess schools and their administrators have come to the conclusion that they don’t know how to teach children, so they’re looking for something they can do instead.
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Ex-PH2 – Exactly.
My siblings and I spent most of our summers at our family cabin. We roamed free without supervision from a young age, without many rules. None of us fell off a mountain or drowned in the creek or ran anyone over with our old tractor (we were driving it at 10 or 11 years old). I’ve tried to allow my own kids similar freedom. Instead of being afraid of their own shadows, they are pretty well-adjusted young adults, able to live and work on their own.
Common Sense Says:
September 24th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
This is what the school “charged” him with:
“possession, handling and use of a firearm”
In a very similar case, 30+ kids at my local high school were “charged” with SEXUAL HARASSMENT and their had it put in their records, because some kids in the video department videotaped a bunch of the cheerleaders dancing (tweaking) like they do at the pep rallies, and the video somehow got on U-Tube. They were ALL charged, all of them. I could see some sort of discipline for the idiot that put the video on U-Tube. I could maybe see some kind of problem with whoever did the editing. But these kids are being what would be in the adult world “over-charged”
And you know how it ended? Three of the families had to hire a lawyer to get all the kids’ records expunged. It took six months. And the principal was NOT fired.
I suspect that what we are seeing is a direct result of the school management training these principals receive. If so, we need to have a very public review of, not only the school curriculum, but also the curriculum for the teachers and principals, because the result has been some very poor decision-making.
wonder if that neighbor has her new address selected… if my kid was among that group she would probably want to move. Or lead a very, very pure and law abiding life….
The two other kids who ran out in the streets chasing each other with the airsoft guns got suspended until the end of the year. Just saw it on the news.
Good Lord, Given the number of times me and my boyhood friends played “Cops and Robbers”, “Cowboys & Indians”,… right there on the playground at recess, let alone at home, we’d have been locked away at age 6 in today’s paranoid schizophrenically-run publik shckoolz!!
Holy F’ing Hell!!! I was willing to give some credence early on to the potential they were shooting at kids on the way to the bus..
Expelled?? The mother who called is a class A douchebag.
Christ almighty, this world sucks ass.
@46 – VOV, your argument – that it is minority students who are the problem – does not hold up. Chicago’s charter schools are college-prep schools and are NOT segregated. While there is a charter school specifically for black students, Urban Prep, which regularly. has a 100% college-bound senior class, it is not the only charter/college-prep school in Chicago. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/urban-prep-graduates-all-_n_2981203.html The problem is NOT minorities, it is the school system and the unionized teachers, who went on strike the day after school started last month because their pensions are more important than teaching the kids. Chicago public schools have a long history of high dropout rates and poor performance. With the closure of 50 ‘underutilized’ schools by Mayor rahmbo, the public school classes will become overcrowded. He, on the other hand, wants to open more charter schools because he thinks it’s the way to get 100% college-bound students. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/chicago-charter-schools_n_3757911.html He may mean well, but his notions are completely misguided by his lack of understanding that the teachers have to be better teachers and the public school system has to do a better job of teaching. He also has to get the gangs out of the neighborhoods, which, under him, ain’t gonna happen. Your statistics don’t hold up because it’s not the minorities in the student body. It’s the curriculum, the teachers, and the school systems. If the teachers do not motivate the students, they do not learn anything. And don’t give me that crap about Hispanics. I live in an area with a large Hispanic population. The motivated parents want their children to get ahead. The non-motivated parents don’t care and stay mired in their cultural tradition instead of looking at the possibilities for their kids. Furthermore, in a majority of black households, both parents are noticeably absent for various reasons, and it is the grandparents who are raising the kids. This is not the welfare system that you complain about. It is a breakdown of social values that puts a higher priority on making money any way possible, including through criminal activity, than on home and family. And that… Read more »