If harmless is fairly serious, how do you rate dangerous?
Bringing a grenade to school for show-and-tell isn’t a terribly bright idea. Howver, I can understand a kid seeing it as no big deal when it was a disarmed WWII grenade that had likely been laying around the house since before he was born.
CBC News reports that in Moncton, New Brunswick, a boy has been suspended for five days for bringing the harmless grenade to school. Central to the story:
The disarmed Second World War grenade turned out to be harmless, but the principal said he won’t tolerate any kind of weapon on school property.
Principal Mike Whittleton said the boy has to face the consequences of his actions.
“The seriousness of the event determines the amount of time that he’ll be suspended,” Whittleton said Tuesday. “This is a fairly serious event, so he’ll be suspended for five days.”
Hopefully no students will bring a rock to school for geology class show-and-tell, since that would be similarly dangerous as a disarmed grenade. I just wonder what it would take for Whittleton to consider an event unimportant.
>>I just wonder what it would take for Whittleton to consider an event unimportant.
The entire world paved over in orange Nerf.
Another incidence of misapplied justice……sometimes I think our school principals have a little too much autonomy.
Yes, the school should apply a little discretion with this one, considering the kid’s intent. But you gotta admit, bringing a hand grenade to school, real or fake, isn’t a very bright idea particularly in this time and age.
Diamond Dave’s right; I’m a big believer in doing away with Zero Tolerance,but there’s no way that in today’s culture a student bringing a grenade (even an inert grenade) into school isn’t going to result in some kind of disciplinary action. If I did something like that at work I’d probably be arrested.
but come on! it says that he brought it for show and tell… thats got to mean hes no higher than the 5th grade!