The Muscatine Journal reports on a student expelled from school for the rest of this year and half of next for bringing an Air-soft pellet gun to school to show his friends. The police took a look at it and declined to arrest the boy (this time the police are on the side of sanity, at least,) but the school has expelled him anyway.
Now the school district is working with the parents to figure out how to continue his education despite the expulsion. Don’t worry, though, taxpayer money will cover the costs for, say, homeschooling assistance. I guess the idea of giving him three days of in-school suspension and getting him back to his studies was out of the question?
H-M-S board expels student for three policy violations
A student in the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn School District threatened another student. He said he was going to bring a gun to school. Although the student did not actually have access to any firearms he was expelled as the district has made the idea of a gun equivalent to actually possessing one.
The vote, which was taken in open session, calls for a 12 calendar month expulsion of an unnamed student. During the hearing, it was determined that the student had violated three school policies: 502.8, student to student harassment/bullying; 503.1, student conduct; and 502.7, weapons, which covers weapons, look-alike weapons and the threat of weapons, according to Superintendent Lynn Evans.
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School with Indian name won’t play ‘Braves’
The University of Iowa teams are nicknamed the “Hawkeyes”. The name is of Indian origin.
The policy � initiated in 1994 in response to outrage over stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans in sports � reads: “In recognition of the UI policy on human rights, the university bans from its athletics facilities any mascot that depicts or represents Native Americans.”
The baseball team canceled a recent game with Bradley University, ostensibly because the Illinois school teams go by the nickname of the Braves. Bradley actually got rid of their Indian mascot in 1989, well before Iowa went politically correct. They have also played against Iowa the past two years without incident.
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