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A dunce cap for gun stunt
Josey1
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A dunce cap for gun stunt
Friday, April 19, 2002 - With the third anniversary of the worst school shooting in U.S. only days away, we are completely taken aback by an Ignacio High School teacher's idea of a practical joke.
Give a blank-firing starter pistol to a 10th grader? Not funny. Have the student invade another teacher's social studies class while holding the fake gun? Not funny, either. Have the student yell, "Everybody down, now!" Not even close to funny.
Yet math teacher and track coach Rocky Cundiff claims his bonehead stunt earlier this month was intended as a joke, which he admits misfired. Neither the social studies teacher nor his students were laughing.
We aren't either, and we'll never see anything humorous about real or simulated school shootings. April 20, 1999, brought this community enough grief. The "ka-thwump" of med-evac helicopters and the wailing sirens of ambulances ferrying broken children to metro hospitals still echo in our ears; a series of funerals is indelibly engraved in our memories; the tears of the murder victims' families have yet to dry. Columbine left a wound in all our hearts that will never heal.
Scaring school kids with a blank gun doesn't belong in any teacher's repertoire of classroom stunts. Involving a student in such a prank is borderline idiocy. (We'd nominate Cundiff for Doofus of the Month, but this is too serious.)
What makes Cundiff's prank all the more surprising is that, since Columbine, the Ignacio School District has had countless meetings and training sessions about such things as emergency procedures and lockdown drills, according to Superintendent Bruce Yoast.
Cundiff, to his credit, apologized to his colleague and the students in the social studies class. He also was suspended for a couple of days. Need we remind him that some school kids have found themselves expelled or worse for similar conduct?
The embarrassed teacher says most of his wife's comments couldn't be repeated, except that she declared him "dumber than a box of rocks." Too kind by half, we'd say. For this performance, we give Cundiff a big, red "F."
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,417%7E537029,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Friday, April 19, 2002 - With the third anniversary of the worst school shooting in U.S. only days away, we are completely taken aback by an Ignacio High School teacher's idea of a practical joke.
Give a blank-firing starter pistol to a 10th grader? Not funny. Have the student invade another teacher's social studies class while holding the fake gun? Not funny, either. Have the student yell, "Everybody down, now!" Not even close to funny.
Yet math teacher and track coach Rocky Cundiff claims his bonehead stunt earlier this month was intended as a joke, which he admits misfired. Neither the social studies teacher nor his students were laughing.
We aren't either, and we'll never see anything humorous about real or simulated school shootings. April 20, 1999, brought this community enough grief. The "ka-thwump" of med-evac helicopters and the wailing sirens of ambulances ferrying broken children to metro hospitals still echo in our ears; a series of funerals is indelibly engraved in our memories; the tears of the murder victims' families have yet to dry. Columbine left a wound in all our hearts that will never heal.
Scaring school kids with a blank gun doesn't belong in any teacher's repertoire of classroom stunts. Involving a student in such a prank is borderline idiocy. (We'd nominate Cundiff for Doofus of the Month, but this is too serious.)
What makes Cundiff's prank all the more surprising is that, since Columbine, the Ignacio School District has had countless meetings and training sessions about such things as emergency procedures and lockdown drills, according to Superintendent Bruce Yoast.
Cundiff, to his credit, apologized to his colleague and the students in the social studies class. He also was suspended for a couple of days. Need we remind him that some school kids have found themselves expelled or worse for similar conduct?
The embarrassed teacher says most of his wife's comments couldn't be repeated, except that she declared him "dumber than a box of rocks." Too kind by half, we'd say. For this performance, we give Cundiff a big, red "F."
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,417%7E537029,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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PC=BS
SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
"We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*
**Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
People have to many crutches in todays life, yes he is an idiot and should lose his job, kids get expelled for less.
This guy is a genious! (In the eyes of the gun control advocates; this is the reason he'll get nothing but a slap on the wrist as punishment.)
How many kids were in the classroom? Probably around 30?
Just think, now there are about 30 kids who likely have an irrational fear of firearms--scared at an impressional age into becoming (probable) lifelong gun control advocates.
It's ok since the overall result was to make children "afraid" of guns.
Brilliant, simply brilliant!
Most likely a slap on the wrist.
Around here the student would most likely been shot by on campus police. Then how would the teacher feel?
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain