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student suspended for liking gun on social network
riflemike
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on Instagram...........the insanity continues, can only get worse
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/08/seventh-grader-suspended-for-liking-photo-ocigaretteun-on-instagra/22075757/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/08/seventh-grader-suspended-for-liking-photo-ocigaretteun-on-instagra/22075757/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&
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Cut out of article:
The Board has a 'zero tolerance' of violent, disruptive, harassing, intimidating, bullying, or any other inappropriate behavior by its students. (what is and who defines inappropriate)
Students are also subject to discipline as outlined in the Student Code of Conduct that occurs off school property when the misbehavior adversely affects the educational process.
As the Superintendent of the Edgewood City Schools, I assure you that any social media threat will be taken serious including those who "like" the post when it potentially endangers the health and safety of students or adversely affects the educational process."
Home schooling would be my choice these days.
I hope none of the students watch TV or play video games. Lord help them if they go to the movies.
20-25 years ago Schools were being sued by parents that children were sent home... Not suspended or expelled, just sat home to change from school because of what they were wearing, and they were winning on the grounds of freedom of expression
Now a kid can't press a button that says he likes a photo.
It's time we put some shock treatment in the pool to kill off the bacteria that calls themselves Human
Shame on this school district for this policy.
Read somewhere the students suspension was suspended when they found out it was a picture of a pellet gun.
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quote:Originally posted by wpageabc
Shame on this school district for this policy.
Read somewhere the students suspension was suspended when they found out it was a picture of a pellet gun.
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shouldnt have been suspended had it been a real gun
OR / liking a suicide/ liking a hooker / etc etc........
kinda extreme but examples
parents should deal with it if they see fit.....
BUT also they should be involved in what he is doing on social media
none of schools f'n businesss
I wish I was the superintendent of that school.
The suspension was rescinded.
yea i know..it was yesterday, but doesnt change ....the fact it should have never happened
quote:Originally posted by wpageabc
Shame on this school district for this policy.
Read somewhere the students suspension was suspended when they found out it was a picture of a pellet gun.
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OK, just tryin' to understand something here.
The student was suspended because he "liked" a picture of a gun.
The gun turned out to be a pellet gun.
The suspension was cancelled (presumably because it is OK to "like" pellet guns?).
If the student brought a gun to school, would he be suspended?
If the gun the student brought to school turned out to be a pellet gun, would the suspension be cancelled?
NOTE: The previous situations HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH what the student does or does not "like" on social media and the validity of the school suspended him for it.
I am just trying to understand whether the school knows the difference between a real gun and a pellet gun - either on social media or at school. I am guessing "No", since most schools don't know the difference between real guns and drawings of guns.
Try not to label everyone based on the actions of one idiot.