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Chanute Elementary Student Suspended for Spent Shell Casing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Patricia Stoneking
December 15, 2014
Chanute Elementary School Decision Lacks Common Sense
(Bonner Springs, KS) - The Kansas State Rifle Association is calling for a public apology to be issued to Camron Carlson and his Mother Deana Carlson.
Nine year old Camron Carlson was suspended from school for five days because one empty shell casing fell out of the boys coat pocket at school on December 3, 2014. He had been with his Mother the evening before sighting in a rifle for deer hunting, a common activity in Kansas.
"I have interviewed the Mother and find that the actions of the school are inappropriate at best. To suspend a 9 year old child for having an empty shell casing in his coat pocket sorely lacks any common sense." said KSRA President Patricia Stoneking. "It reminds me of the kid who chewed his pop tart into the shape of a gun being suspended from school. I think we have to draw the line and choose to be more careful about what we want to classify as zero tolerance violations."
When Deana Carlson arrived at the school after being called by the principal she found her child in tears after an alleged interrogation by the principal before she arrived in which her son was told that this inert, empty, already fired piece of brass was dangerous. That is absolutely inaccurate as an already used piece of brass is simply that, a piece of brass, which has no capability of causing any harm whatsoever.
Stoneking said, "Certainly children have no business bringing guns or live ammunition rounds to school but that is not what happened here. To persecute a child for a piece of spent brass and tell him he did something dangerous is ridiculous and totally lacks common sense."
By all accounts it seems apparent to us that the school was more interested in attacking the philosophy this young man was being taught at home than the actual supposed offense of having a spent piece of brass in his possession at school.
We call upon school administrators in Kansas to recognize the difference between common sense rules and persecution of a belief system and to act accordingly in the future. This child made an innocent mistake by not emptying his coat pocket before going off to school and we see absolutely no reason for a suspension to have taken place over this. The school should make a public apology to Camron and his Mother for their lack of common sense in taking this action.
"The act of sighting in a deer rifle and hunting are perfectly lawful in Kansas and it is not a school administrators place to impress their personal feelings against it to a child." Stoneking said.
Chanute Elementary Student Suspended for Spent Shell Casing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Patricia Stoneking
December 15, 2014
Chanute Elementary School Decision Lacks Common Sense
(Bonner Springs, KS) - The Kansas State Rifle Association is calling for a public apology to be issued to Camron Carlson and his Mother Deana Carlson.
Nine year old Camron Carlson was suspended from school for five days because one empty shell casing fell out of the boys coat pocket at school on December 3, 2014. He had been with his Mother the evening before sighting in a rifle for deer hunting, a common activity in Kansas.
"I have interviewed the Mother and find that the actions of the school are inappropriate at best. To suspend a 9 year old child for having an empty shell casing in his coat pocket sorely lacks any common sense." said KSRA President Patricia Stoneking. "It reminds me of the kid who chewed his pop tart into the shape of a gun being suspended from school. I think we have to draw the line and choose to be more careful about what we want to classify as zero tolerance violations."
When Deana Carlson arrived at the school after being called by the principal she found her child in tears after an alleged interrogation by the principal before she arrived in which her son was told that this inert, empty, already fired piece of brass was dangerous. That is absolutely inaccurate as an already used piece of brass is simply that, a piece of brass, which has no capability of causing any harm whatsoever.
Stoneking said, "Certainly children have no business bringing guns or live ammunition rounds to school but that is not what happened here. To persecute a child for a piece of spent brass and tell him he did something dangerous is ridiculous and totally lacks common sense."
By all accounts it seems apparent to us that the school was more interested in attacking the philosophy this young man was being taught at home than the actual supposed offense of having a spent piece of brass in his possession at school.
We call upon school administrators in Kansas to recognize the difference between common sense rules and persecution of a belief system and to act accordingly in the future. This child made an innocent mistake by not emptying his coat pocket before going off to school and we see absolutely no reason for a suspension to have taken place over this. The school should make a public apology to Camron and his Mother for their lack of common sense in taking this action.
"The act of sighting in a deer rifle and hunting are perfectly lawful in Kansas and it is not a school administrators place to impress their personal feelings against it to a child." Stoneking said.
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Take care of our needed people first and spend money on our cities and don't put illegals first. Many Legal Hispanics are suffering with the rest of the poor so NO Amnesty till we heal our country.
The democraps are so desperate they will sell their soul for a illegal voter and keep our poor on the plantation
Hillary and Sanders suck in my opinion and the rest of America should keep them out off office[xx(][:(][V]
The church stands to make 80 million dollars while facilitating Syrian refugees settlement so how much will they make off the illegals. Such a shame they can't take care of the people in their pews now
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/17/bishops-push-back-on-trumps-hardline-illegal-immigration-stance/
The church stands to make 80 million dollars while facilitating Syrian refugees settlement so how much will they make off the illegals. Such a shame they can't take care of the people in their pews now
We had a run of Russians come into our area a decade or so ago, sponsored by a local church. We were associated with the Salvation Army at the time, and the women would go from food bank to food bank collecting everything thing they could.
Old fears die hard, to be sure, but the sponsoring church, IMO, should have been taking care of them, not the existing charitable organizations that were taking care of those already here.
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by TooBig
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/17/bishops-push-back-on-trumps-hardline-illegal-immigration-stance/
The church stands to make 80 million dollars while facilitating Syrian refugees settlement so how much will they make off the illegals. Such a shame they can't take care of the people in their pews now
We had a run of Russians come into our area a decade or so ago, sponsored by a local church. We were associated with the Salvation Army at the time, and the women would go from food bank to food bank collecting everything thing they could.
Old fears die hard, to be sure, but the sponsoring church, IMO, should have been taking care of them, not the existing charitable organizations that were taking care of those already here.
We have a large Bosnian and a Serbian community. I know that atleast one war criminal was discovered hiding among them and sent back for trial.