Most of the flap is over the fact that possessing the "firearm" on campus is a zero-tolerance offense.

Except when it isn't, apparently.

Snarfangel: I don't mind the BB gun incident, but letting students run around with sharpened pencils? Madness!

well that and the empty shells ... those things can like hurt if you throw them hard enough.. expel them!

Fired from being a parent?

Fire the parents?

Let the pointless hand-wringing & feigned-outrage commence!

Why use a BB gun when you could use CC or DD guns


/bring out the fem-bots!

Kyosuke: Most of the flap is over the fact that possessing the "firearm" on campus is a zero-tolerance offense.

Except when it isn't, apparently.

Which is why zero-tolerance policies should never be implemented in the first place.

Kyosuke: Most of the flap is over the fact that possessing the "firearm" on campus is a zero-tolerance offense.

So, how is it a "firearm" if no "fire" is involved? BB-guns have no gunpowder or other combustion -- it's all just compressed-air.

Using a bb gun to pop balloons doesn't concern me. But these farking balloon ads that Fark has started using are raging me. FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I got expelled from high school for having a BB gun in my car, with no BBs or CO2, so I am getting a kick out of this!

I was thinking, what the fark is the big deal? So what?

Then I read: In the spring of 2008, two high school students were kicked out for the rest of the school year after they bought souvenir swords during a school trip to Britain.


Well, what comes around goes around. Suspend the principal. Without pay...

jshine: Kyosuke: Most of the flap is over the fact that possessing the "firearm" on campus is a zero-tolerance offense.

So, how is it a "firearm" if no "fire" is involved? BB-guns have no gunpowder or other combustion -- it's all just compressed-air.

I seem to remember the school weapons policy in my district enumerated virtually every permutation of "gun" and "weapon" they could spell out.

Manager: That's it, get out of here, you're fired!
Towelie: Yeah!
Manager: Not him, you!
Towelie: Awww.

trouzourt: Snarfangel: I don't mind the BB gun incident, but letting students run around with sharpened pencils? Madness!

well that and the empty shells ... those things can like hurt if you throw them hard enough.. expel them!

Shell casings? What kind of BB gun do YOU have?

When it comes to firearms, however, the rules are different for principals than they are for students.

Since when is a BB gun a firearm?

hot, unlike my counterstike skills

Fano: I seem to remember the school weapons policy in my district enumerated virtually every permutation of "gun" and "weapon" they could spell out.


No doubt true... Man, I hated high school for reasons like this, and if my wife & I ever do have kids, God help the district that farks with them. I'd be *happy* to spend big $$ on lawsuit after lawsuit -- one of the few cases where its worth it to give money to lawyers.

/funny how it changes by the time you get to grad-school
//radioactive material? hypodermic needles? all manor of toxic & controlled chemicals? yea, we've got those all over lab...

Kyosuke: Most of the flap is over the fact that possessing the "firearm" on campus is a zero-tolerance offense.

Except when it isn't, apparently.

You're totally right. Expel the parent.

There should be no difference in treatment between adults and children.

Something something cold dead hands something something.

Chaim Witz: Using a bb gun to pop balloons doesn't concern me. But these farking balloon ads that Fark has started using are raging me. FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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The helium balloons would have fallen down on their own within a day. The BBs themselves probably ricocheted around the gym, and will scratch the hell out of the floor the next time a player steps on one during a basketball game.

Shakespeare's Monkey: This is my weapon, this is my gun,
This one's is for killingfighting, this one's is for fun.

ftfy

Went to school in the 80's in rural Southern Oregon. Between my friends and I we could have repelled an invasion with all the guns in out trucks. Surprisingly, there were no firearm incidents. Not in any way due to our maturity.

One of the article's comments pointed out the danger of a balloon falling and hurting someone.

Thanks alot Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, you idiots.

Shakespeare's Monkey: This is my weapon rifle, this is my gun,
This one's for killing fighting, this one's for fun.

Nice try, though.

Obviously the school should have hired a contractor to come in and safely erect a scaffold throughout the gym and collect all of the balloons removing the safety hazard.

1 week without gym.

$45,000 in cost.

Safety before sanity. Do it for the children.

Was it a Red Ryder? Was the parent's name Ralphie? Article needs more detail.

We set up the BB range in the driveway and shoot into a tarp. The kids love it, some of the neighborhood parents aren't so sure, but we are the "those" people on the street, so they are frightened. And I am good with that.

Dear God I graduated from District 196 so I am getting a kick....

/Since when is marksmanship evil.
//Farking libtards...

vudukungfu: No wonder I get stares when I wear my wifebeater and crewcut on mainstreet USA.

Classy.

Fano: jshine:
I seem to remember the school weapons policy in my district enumerated virtually every permutation of "gun" and "weapon" they could spell out.

Mine too, but strangely enough it specifically said that letter openers were OK. So naturally I got some replica sword letter openers and slung them from my belt and laughed as they found out they couldn't suspend me for it.


Really, zero-tolerance policies are just an excuse to remove thought from administrator/student interaction. "well, I know that 5 kids came after you and beat you into the ground at lunch when you were just standing around waiting for your slice of bad pizza, but we have a zero tolerance policy and that means I don't have to consider the nuances of this particular situation, and can instead just suspend all of you, including you the victim. See you in 3 days."

When I was in high school, the JROTC had an indoor facility made specifically for firearms (pellet rifles) training.

What's this world coming to? Bunch of pussified parents pussifying their kids. Hell, just start passing out foam helmets in the neonatal units now. When our 9mo old son takes a spill crawling around on the floor we just tell him rub some dirt in it (obviously I'm kidding) and keep going. And guess what? He stops crying and goes back to playing. I refuse to go swoop him up into my arms and protect him from the big bad floor, or whatever he ran into, UNLESS he's bleeding or given himself a pretty big whomp. *Thud* + scream = parent save. *Dink* + whine = brush it off.

CSB

when I was in JROTC we had real rifles in our room, not just the fake ones for parades
/shooting practice every Wed.

What a reckless solution! What we need is two union workers on overtime operating a rented lift of some sort. They need to collect the balloons while still inflated state so that no exploding debris might harm anyone down below. The gas should be collected so it doesn't throw off the natural atmosphere of a gymnasium environment.

The first BB gun I ever owned was one of those crossman-air single-pull pistols that kind of resembled a Colt .45

I remember shooting at a balloon and watching the bb bounce off.

That was at show-and-tell.


/times have changed
//get off my lawn

This isn't the Nanny State, is it Danny?

// Shot that balloon right in the lumberyard

If they let them fall down then the story is on choking hazards being left in the gym. Some kid eats one puts one over his head oh boy..

Recall bringing in a compound bow for archery class in college, wonder if that is still a class?

Rich white suburbanites losing their shiat over a trivial incident? That's unpossible!

/two Simpsons references, I am so smrt