The parents of a student in the Houston area are stunned after their daughter was suspended and accused of making a terroristic threat after she was spotted making the shape of a gun with her hand.
The girl says she and her friends were pretending to be police officers. The schools says the teacher feared for her life.
In Texas even c’mon everyone old enough to pick up a gun is carrying. I have a fellow officer who transferred to our dept from Texas. He said his cousins ages 7 and 8 carried guns into the store with them and their dad, when going out shooting. Jesus guess Texas isn’t as loose as they used to be with their gun laws these days.
If the teacher feared for her life when a child pointed a finger at her, I wonder what must go through her mind each time the entire class raises their hands to answer a question.
Im ok with zero tolerance for weapons, real weapons, but this stuff is ridiculous, I remember having one of my rifles in the rack in the window of my pickup in high school because I was going hunting after school with a few buddies, and the principle seeing it and asking to check it out, i showed it to him and he told me what a fine rifle he thought it was, gave it back, and sent my on my way to class…
Every day our country takes one step closer to complete insanity.
Please clarify your statement. You say you’re OK with zero tolerance for “real weapons” and then describe a story about yourself that totally contradicts what zero tolerance is. I’m not tracking what you’re saying.
Because times have changed. What was ok back in my day won’t fly now. There were a few times I had a 12ga in the trunk of my car at school. Was it a big deal? Nope… But times are definitely different. This story, while completely over the top and ridiculous, clearly illustrates that.
Funny how sticking out my index finger, and raising my thumb is considered as heinous as pulling down my pants and aiming my SBR at her.
I’m not surprised by this. I hear about some pretty moronic crap going on in the Houston schools from some of my friends. When my wife and I decide to have kids, I do believe they’re gonna get home schooled. I’ll have to figure out some productive way to socialize them aside from the public school system.
I always hear older people describe a better society in the same breath that they acquiesce to the kind of stuff that made that society disappear before I was born.
To say that the teacher overreacted does not even begin to describe how inane her response was. If she was truly that frightened by a pointed finger maybe she should just crawl under a rock and hide from the world. Recognize also that the school principle and administrators are fully culpable for the child’s suspension, because it was their decision. I have ‘heard tell’ that Texas has more conservative values and common sense than some other states, (e.g. my CA), but apparently, stupidity knows no state boundaries.
Now barring the sarcasm, this is really an issue of the Progressive/Liberal mindset: Individuality and personal freedoms will not be tolerated, the Progressive/Liberal Agenda can control/change human nature to create a socialist utopia, and the answer to all of our problems is a larger, more controlling government that will dictate the acceptability of all actions, speech and beliefs.
The only way to correct our country’s current descent down the toilet bowl is to campaign for, support, and vote for, true conservative candidates in each and every election. The Progressives within both the Dem. & Rep. parties are truly the enemies of our Constitutional Republic, and are far more dangerous than all of our external enemies combined.
