School suspends student for empty BB gun
Student Suspended After BB Gun Incident
The recent rampage in Minnesota has scholastic administrators all over the states overreacting and striking out against their students. A Tea Middle School student from the Tea Area School District is the victim of an administration in witch-hunt frenzy mode. They have suspended him and he faces expulsion for possessing an empty BB gun after school hours off of school property.
While school officials and police are investigating the incident, the superintendent tells me the boy never threatened anyone with the gun, and he’s not even sure the boy had the gun on school property.
They believe the boy may have walked by the school with the gun after school hours.
These administrators need help. Their actions here show that they are incapable of functioning in a rational manner. They are frightened past the point of a sane response. The BB gun “looked real, so the consequences are real”. Superintendent Dean Jones completely ignored the fact that the school had no authority over the student, that he broke no school rule, broke no law and presented no danger. Jones’ reply was that the school “is taking the report seriously and the boy is being dealt with”. ‘Dealt with’ seems to be synonymous with ‘lynching’. After all, school officials are “taking no chances”.
The police, on the other hand, acted commendably. They investigated a report and closed it when they discovered it was a non-issue.
But as far as the police are concerned, the boy won’t face any charges.
“There wasn’t any damage, there wasn’t any ammo in it, it was just an empty gun, b-b gun,” said [Tea Chief of Police Dick] Dubro.
If only the school administration had the same respect for rationality and the law that the police department does.
Contact Information:
Superintendent Dean Jones
Principal Mark Rockafellow
(Tip credit to Tori in Texas)
Seems like it had nothing to do with school, other than he was near it.
Here’s another story about a boy with a bbgun not on the daycare’s property, but allegedly pointing the gun at kids and teachers:
Boy accused of pointing BB gun at teachers, students at day care. He was arrested “charged with six counts of deadly conduct”.
“We’ve done a very good job of embracing security, but it’s myopic to think that will address the core of the problem,” said Paul Viollis, a former law enforcement official who now teaches safety for schools. “All we’re doing is locking the problem inside.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/education/30counselor.html?pagewanted=print&position=
In the Tea Middle School they have no right to deal with a kid off school property period, end sentence and of paragraph. In the Day care center item: pointing a gun, even a BB gun, at someone is no joking matter. It’s always the “Unloaded” one that shots and injures someone. BB’s take out eyes.
When I was a kid we played ‘Army’ and had almost every imaginable type of weapon the toy makers could make (I’m 50 now so I’m talking late 50’s and early 60’s, some looked real). Parents had no problem with that, and we played after school on the school grounds … no biggie. People were smarter then.
But my BB gun and the other guns in the house. Very different rules. Very different. If I every picked up a gun without clearing it first (checking to see if loaded) BIG trouble. Even pointing an unloaded one was taken seriously. So no sympathy in the second case.
Oh I still have 9 firearms and still respect their use.
dave
My sister hit a bird in the head with a b-b gun. It was at a fair distance, and we were upset the bird was hurt. I don’t know if b-b guns are as powerful today, but this isn’t making anyone safe or teaching a kid about appropriate adult behavior.
Adults are suppose to be there for kids to turn to when they aren’t sure. Kids are suppose to trust adults because they care about the community and will make good judgement. These are relentlessly unforgiving predators who terrorize the community with social power. The only way these guys will ever know what is going on around them is using abuse and suspicion.
You should really get all the facts before you post something like this on the Internet. Get real….