Lacey High School Board faces angry parents
Yesterday, we talked about the Lacey High School students who were sentenced to five days of in-school suspension for posting pictures of their day at the range to social media. NJ.com reports that the school board heard from about 200 angry parents last night;
Frank Horvath, whose son is a senior at Lacey High, put things in blunter terms.
“It’s none of your damn business what our children do outside of school,” Horvath told the seven board members toward the end of a four-hour meeting, most of it occupied by speaker after speaker.
Before the meeting, the board revamped their policy on students and guns;
Before the policy was changed, it had stated that, “any student who is reported to be in possession of a weapon of any type for any reason or purpose whether on or off school grounds,” would be subject to penalties including up to a one-year suspension.
Now, the policy omits any mention of possessing a weapon off school grounds or the length of a suspension. The revamped policy also adds a note about school buses.
“Students are forbidden to carry any type of weapon or simulated weapon to school,” the revamped policy states. “Strict disciplinary action and legal actions will result if this occurs. Any person who knowingly has in his possession any imitation firearm in or upon any part of the building… without the written authorization of the governing officer of the institution, or while on any school bus is a disorderly person.”
That’s called staying in your lane. The school really has no jurisdiction over students after school hours and off of school property.
One speaker, former Lacey school board member Regina Discenza, defended the district’s actions, which were prompted by a report of the photo from a concerned parent, after 17 students and adults were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
“In light of what happened in Parkland, Florida, how can anyone say this board did not do its job?”
In the Parkland incident, school officials interdicted police and justice officials when they should have been putting the future school shooter in the justice system, but the school had an agreement with police that the police wouldn’t arrest their students for their activities outside of school. You know, like Lacey High school officials did – stepping outside their lane into community issues.
[Board President Robert] Klaus told the crowd that he himself was a gun owner and a member of the National Rifle Association, as is Giordano.
“I have guns, I grew up in a family with guns,” said Klaus. “We learned about guns, we respect guns.”
I’ll bet that he has a Black friend, too.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
I’m a member of the NRA! And that gives me credibility to claim I’m an expert and you should listen to me when I say guns suck!
I’d be a member of the NRA if they’d tighten up their rules requirements to keep jackwagons like this out.
As the saying goes, “You can put your boots in the oven, but that don’t make ’em biscuits.”
I am a Life Member of the NRA, but that does not make me, prima facie, an expert on anything, or mean that I always make the wisest choices in matters of policy.
Kids should be studying, not having fun shooting weapons at a range.
They are studying applied chemistry, applied physics, trigonometry, trigger-nomitry, geometry, and teamwork.
That’s no fun at all, so it should pass the school-board test.
Yef. It was on their own time, and supervised. What they legally do on their own time is none of the school’s business. You should be out there policing the company area. And the 1SG’s coffee ain’t gonna make itself.
I think Yef neglected to put the /s tag on his post.
I certainly read it as such, anyway, not a serious statement.
Oh, leave Yef alone, willya? He has to deal with junior O-gangers who can’t find their way out of a paper bag, even with a flashlight and a map.
I thought that he was freebasing the used kitty litter… AGAIN!
“In light of what happened in Parkland, Florida, how can anyone say this board did not do its job?”
Because unlike Parkland, these kids made no threats. They also hadn’t had run-ins with the law for violent behavior or threats thereof—much less 39 of them, you dumb bitch!
I still remember pickups with shotguns in the back window gun racks in my high school parking lot, This was in the late 1960’s. School had a 2 lane .22 range in the basement controlled by the shop teacher. Town of 12k surrounded by cornfields.
It still boggles me how ding-dongs like dear Regina never seem to be able to discern the difference.
As obvious as the Good Lord’s sun in the sky.
Now, what happened to the jackwagon that gave the kids the suspension?
Big Mommy overreach. One wonders who the “concerned” parent was. Basic liberal stuff, somebody somewhere is having a good time, what can I do to stop that? It just gives me a tingle!Misses the good old days, in the STASI, no doubt.
Commies everywhere I look these days.
Except they aren’t in Cuba, Vietnam, or the Soviet Union.
They are in our colleges, media, and government…hell even in the Officer Corps of our Army.
WTF?
By the way, what ever happened to Spencer Rapone?
He had some bad dreams.
https://youtu.be/aVyNni8fT_4
One can only hope.
My own view is it all loops back to Craig Wigley, the incoherent school superintendent. The origin of the school’s anti-gun policy has all the marks of being something from the school administration, and not something the school board came up with on its own hook. That the school board would consider such a policy is probably because it thought nobody was paying attention. Then too, there’s an old saying:
Sometimes it’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
If that’s the back story on how the school rules were made, Wigley gets some credit for the clever way he pulled it off. When the outrage came back to bite the school district on the ass, it was the school board who had to deal with it, and not Wigley directly.
The policy is just bit premature is all. Public schools are surrogate parents nowadays. I remember when the primary, if not sole, mission of schools was to teach the core subjects or to prepare the nonacademic types for work.
Getting real tired of jackasses saying “I grew up around guns, I own guns, I’m an NRA member, etc etc, etc”
Well how about you step up, take a little responsibility, teach people about gun safety, and spend time advocating for the enforcement of current laws and fighting the gun grabbers?