School suspends student for empty BB gun

Jim | South Dakota | Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

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.

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Plastic pellet shooter equals deadly firearm under zero tolerance policy

Jim | South Dakota | Thursday, February 12th, 2004

Gun Scare At Lincoln High School

Two students face lengthy suspensions, and criminal charges, after bringing what looked like a real gun to school Tuesday. As they were leaving class Tuesday, a Lincoln High School student saw a classmate flash a handgun in the parking lot. That student told school officials immediately. Within a matter of minutes police surrounded a car and started searching for a weapon.

The police were called and they found the weapon to be a plastic pellet shooter that looked very much like a real gun. That’s good enough for zero tolerance.
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