Far as I know kids in school have only limited first amendment rights, and the whole thing means nothing without details on the disturbing part.
Hah, man, if I were in school these days, I would have gotten arrested for writing a story that I did about two guys who robbed a bank, stole a minivan, led the police on a high-speed shootout, then crashed the van, got shot, and arrested. Nobody died, though. Well, maybe some bystanders from the random bullets flying everywhere.
People now days are too goddamn sensitive about shit, and Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence.
Hah, man, if I were in school these days, I would have gotten arrested for writing a story that I did about two guys who robbed a bank, stole a minivan, led the police on a high-speed shootout, then crashed the van, got shot, and arrested. Nobody died, though. Well, maybe some bystanders from the random bullets flying everywhere.
People now days are too goddamn sensitive about shit, and Zero Tolerance is Zero Intelligence.
Chances are the school officials couldn't offer any leniency as their hands are tied by code of conduct from school/district board voted guidelines. I'm sure as hell not going to risk my job over something like this.
I do think arresting him probably was overboard even if he was being an ass about it (and if they had him arrested solely over what he wrote that's pretty shitty, hell I could understand calling police as a precaution and so they could help check it out, but an arrest is pretty ridiculous) but again a lot of schools are taking a very hard stance over stuff and handing it off because they don't want to be held liable for it.
Not enough actual information to really make an adequate assessment.
Wow, this story is bullshit. And, not the part about what he wrote.
"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.
He first status wasn't what got him in trouble... He wrong something to the effect of "I bought a gun to take care of business." How is that not inappropriate for school?
And for those that think this is new, when I was in 9th grade my math teacher sent a kid to the principle because he said "9 millimeters" and that is all she heard. It happened that he wasn't talking about a gun, but rather the answer to some problem (which was 9mm). This was in 2001. Columbine changed schools and how they are to deal with students and guns. It didn't help that a few months prior to that, some jerkoff brought a gun to school and accidentally shot his friend in the face in the bathroom.
Something tells me we might not be getting the whole story.
In an earlier report on the incident, district officials told WCIV that a student wrote about bringing a gun to school, for which he was taken into custody.
He was detained for disorderly conduct, based on what police describe as his irate demeanor during the search. Stones mother told WCSC that her son was suspended from school for the rest of the week.
I watched an old Whose Line episode from their days in the UK.
Funny part...the school overacted and called men to "take care of business" who had real guns! All in a gun free zone too boot!
I can remember a short story or essay about a town where they picked people by lottery and stoned them to death. This was a required reading for my wife's English Class. This literary piece originally appeared in the "New Yorker", in 1948. The first time I read this story I thought is was pure liberal trash.
Here is a link describing it:
http://americanliterature.com/author/shirley-jackson/short-story/the-lottery
The story is suppose to relate the human condition in a time when conformity and government regulation have all gone to such an extreme that no one at the time (1948) could understand. However, I think today people of the USA could better relate to the story.
I watched an old Whose Line episode from their days in the UK.
One of the guys on stage did the motions like he was drinking excessively, shooting up with a needle, and finally snorting cocaine until passing out on the floor.
It's not even a full day later and I've already turned into a hopeless meth addict.:\
Little messed up I guess to arrest the kid, but I think it's a good idea. Now a days, everybody has to be aware of the political climate we live in, not just parents. Even though this kid is still young, he should be old enough to be aware that even joking about guns in the school setting can get you in serious trouble.
If he's at all mentally unstable/missing a few screws, it's a good thing that he now has an arrest record in case he does try to buy fire arms when he's older. I mean, who writes a creative story about killing your neighbors pet? Unless he's the next Steven King, it's probably not so great...