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VA_Jill

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3. Oh, for pity's sake!

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2014, 04:20 PM

Apr 2014

So he did the same thing the day before. So what. A gun-shaped pop tart is a THREAT to exactly WHO? (or whom, don't confuse me with grammar issues, I'm no longer in school!) This whole thing is beyond silly and shows nothing so much as the ridiculousness of zero tolerance, and the necessity of some grown-ups (I can't dignify them with the name adults) to aways be in the right.
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Arundel school officials say boy wasn't suspended solely for 'pastry gun' incident [View all] alp227 Apr 2014 OP

zero tolerance = zero sense bossy22 Apr 2014 #1

The school and district yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #2

Oh, for pity's sake! VA_Jill Apr 2014 #3

Horseshit. Arkana Apr 2014 #4

Remember, pastry doesn't kill people, people kill people. KamaAina Apr 2014 #5

I live in Anne Arundel County LibertyLover Apr 2014 #6

Apparently if your special snowflake is a gun lover alp227 Apr 2014 #7

Local news reports mention the earlier incidents LibertyLover Apr 2014 #9

Thanks. both stories quote the dad alp227 Apr 2014 #11

I think there his behavior did warrant it because LibertyLover Apr 2014 #12

what it boils down to is whether the school fully informed the parents of their son's misbehavior alp227 Apr 2014 #13

We are just going to have to disagree LibertyLover Apr 2014 #14

Equating chewing a pop tart into the shape of a gun Scruffy Rumbler Apr 2014 #8

No, it was a repeated pattern LibertyLover Apr 2014 #10

My problem is that if they find a 'gun shaped' pop tart to be a major disruption to lunch penultimate May 2014 #15