We have yet another case of lunacy in our schools as part of the zero tolerance policy regarding guns. We have previously explored how teachers and school administrators are expelling or suspending students for everything from finger guns to stick figures. (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here). For a prior column, click here. Now, Josh Welch, 7, was suspended for two days because he nibbled on his strawberry tart and made it look like a gun. He picked up the fearsome Danish and said “bang, bang” and a teacher reported was irate.
In the latest example of a zero-tolerance policy concerning weapons brought to school that some see as having been taken to an extreme, a 7-year-old boy was suspended for two days over a breakfast pastry.
William “B.J.” Welch, the boy’s father, insists “It was harmless. It was a danish.” Yet, the teacher and the administrators at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Md., were irate. An assistant principal said in a letter to all parents that a student had “used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class” and offered counseling to any student who might need it. Counseling for a lethal pop tart? At what point do administrators or teachers actually get fired for such foolishness?
By the way, Josh Welch suffers from ADHD and has a particular flare for art.
He told FOX45, “All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn’t look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun kinda.”
I simply cannot imagine the thought process of the teacher who was reported visibly upset with the nibbled pastry and took it upon herself to seize the child and his tart. Then you have the school administrator who did not simply tell the teacher that her reaction was absurd and instead suspended the child. In this story, the most reasonable party appears to be the seven-year-old with the ADHD. He apologized and could have been simply told not to nibble his tarts into gun shapes. These cases continue to arise because there is no response to teachers and administrators in taking such actions. These officials hide behind “zero tolerance” policies as an excuse for zero judgment or thought.
Source: Kansas City
I agree with P. Smith. The real crime is giving your child a poptart. No wonder the poor kid has ADHD.
Yes, Darren Smith, lets all play patacake & sit around while Rome burns…
travelinglimey:
As another commenter said in a previous blog:
“Your rabid froth is not helping your perspective”
You, OS, are the lazy fat pig sitting on his duff! You might endlessly research some stuff as that’s what you like to do, probably to confirm a fixed opinion, but you are too lazy to check out the simple fact of Psychiatry Germany admitting to its complete involvement of the Nazi holocaust! You don’t even have the backbone to tell me if you are or are not a psychiatrist yourself. Its a blog blog, not reserved for learned scholars that are too set in their ways to think outside of the boxes they trap themselves & others in. And some of those psychs who escaped Germany that you seem to befriend, a lot depends on from where and when, but hundreds escaped Nazi war crime trials & many were recruited for Psychiatry USA & US Government departments, as well as Interpol, which also recruited the Gestapo. A guy like you could GET THE ANSWER IN SECONDS! Cut the bull! I’m not going to waste my time sending you something you refuse to read or understand!
I already see how skewed your logic is, just a little on so many essays & totally skewed on some subjects. Just the fact that you come up with a cock & bull remark like ‘Conspiracy Theory’. I hold to very few, no, I hold to NO conspiracy theories! There are so many PROVABLE FACTS out there, I have no need of further theories. You are so ignorant & narrow minded that you cannot see where you are being scientific & where you are not! I would let that go, but not with your superior, high & mighty, ‘scholarly’ attacks on me & truth in general. The debate between you & me has ended. Get off your duff & look up that one fact: psychiatry, official Psychiatry Germany, admitting to its complete involvement in the Nazi Concentration Camps, & formally admiting this & apologizing for it right there at one of their get togethers in 2012 before November. If you can’t find that you are a piss poor researcher, & I only charge you with that because you are arogant & presumptious.
Perhaps you are scared of finding out the truth but I suspect you already know the lie you are living. Oh! It was the Citizens Commission on Human Rights that exposed the truth & got them to confess after years of savage attacks on Scientology & other churches by lying & planting false evidence to multiple German governments. Truth prevailed in Germany; psychiatry stopped short of admiting its curent wrongdoings, druggings & illegal incarcerations, but much was exposed & Germany is freer to that degree. The USA is next & obviously that scares the hell out of you. You won’t use this number, but I’ll leave it again for others. It is 800 869 2247 for CCHR. Exposed the Nazi Holocaust cover up; Got the recent enquiries into the terrible rate of veteran suicides (22 a day per the other Turley blog); Know why the shootings are occuring: & Answers to All Three! Many are not used to expecting real answers and Otteray Scribe does NOT want you to call this number!
Onlooker from Troy,
You are welcome. Glad to help out.
The hubris of school administrators turning down assistance, at the same time admitting in the local news media they have serious concerns, boggles the mind.
Here is a way to fight this. It will take some parents with guts and kids with guts and humor. The kids need to Assemble to express their free speech about matters of public concern, such as the suspension and defamation of kids for speaking out on matters of public concern such as the right to arm bears. Sorry, bear arms. Then at the meeting, with their parents present and supervising, they need to draft materials to Petition Their Government to redress their grievances about their right to free speech and to comment on their right to arm bears. They can then make Tee Shirts with guns depicted and a school house with a swaztica and an upside down American Flag on the pole in front of the school house. Each kid wears a tee shirt to the Board of Education Meeting, to the town hall, to the state Legislature on Assembly Square in front of the State House. Each parent wears the Tee Shirt and some lawyers and some video cameras accompany the Petitioners. Then on Monday morning, they go file suit in federal court under 42 United States Code Section 1983 and allege that state actors, being the principal and school board members, suspended little Johnny for getting his gun out of a piece of pasta. Seek damages for Johnny in Count I and for the others similarly situated, and in Count II, sue the same defendants for the right to wear the tee shirts to class, for a declaratory judgement and an injunction ordering the nitwits to cease and desist from interferring with the kids, parents, and others rights to free expression, to assemble, and to Petition their government for redress of grievances. Seek attorneys fees under Section 1988.
First Amendment, Second Amendment rights are being violated.
And by the way, I have known several psychiatrists who managed to escape Nazi Germany. Barely. Got out of town one jump ahead of the Gestapo agents who were looking for them. They were hardly fans of ol’ Adolph.
I look forward to your proofs, travelinglimey.
travelinglimey,
Since you claim documentation is available, get off your butt and provide links to credible peer reviewed journals or sources. Conspiracy theory blogs do not count as credible or reliable. If you don’t have any sources, or are too lazy, just come right out and admit it; no one will take your birthday away from you.
This is a law blog, not junior high. People commenting here should not expect to get away with making undocumented outlandish claims without being challenged.
Limey.
Otteray Scribe has a doctorate in psychology and is also a forensic psychologist. You may refer to him as Doctor. He may refer to you any way he pleases.
So why don’t you research my statement, OS? You can easily find the speech & confession that Psychiatry Germany made about its complete involvement in the Nazi holocaust. Its been well documented & video’d & of course I have seen that. Do I take it that you are a psychiatrist? Or is there some other reason for this attack?
Wow! Mr OS, you really seem to be unaware that you’re doing exactly what you accuse me of doing! I reread my essay & the only name calling was a reasonable retort to someone name calling without inspection, not yourself at all. Now that you have had your unthinking, illogical, unresearched name calling attack on me personally I must include you among the dim witted too.
OS, Sad and disturbing. Most problems in the world come down to the seven deadly sins. Sloth is one of them.
travelinglimey,
Did the Scientology people send you over here? Do you have some scientific or scholarly documentations to support your claims, or did you find your notions among the used Sears and Roebuck catalog pages in the outhouse?
Name calling and ad hominem attacks are easy. Thinking, logic, and actual research is much harder.
Onlooker from Troy,
Here you go:
This link goes to the Secret Service document I mentioned. Scroll down near the bottom of the page to see the downloadable links.
http://development.ancomm.com/code_of_silence/secret_service_safe.html
This is the FBI paper. It is in PDF format, and downloadable.
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/school-shooter
Let me add that when I looked at the FBI web site itself and typed “school shooting” into the search bar, a number of documents popped up that have been published since the original one linked to above. I did not take the time to do more than open a couple of them to see what they were about.
The search feature on the Secret Service web page also shows a number of documents which appear to be newer as well. Just type “school shooting” into the search bar.
Thanks OS
Otteray Scribe, read my post four before yours. I can tell you did not read it or not enough to get it; perhaps because of a post by a dim witted Gene H just before you who thinks he knows CCHR, but clearly does not. Allowing psychiatry to stand up in court as an authority for sanity is like using Mein Camp (spelling?) by A Hitler for the same purpose. Psychiatry Germany totally admitted to causing the Nazi Holocaust in 2012! That the media did not spend much time on it condemns them too.
Darren,
My son when he was very young and sitting in the seat in the grocery store cart used to pick up ketchup bottles and use those as guns. I guess I would be visiting him in prison today under these standards!
Good thing the boy and his friends didn’t grab bananas and start “shooting” at each other like we did in grade school.
Bananainsanity
Offering counseling services..unbelievable. That statement just shows how ingrained this who ridiculousness is with school officials and their warped sense of human behavior.
Otteray Scribe
Can you give me a pointer to the FBI and SS white papers you referred to? I’d sincerely like to read those and can’t seem to find them with a search. Maybe a specific title or something I can search for. Thanks
Read my last post Walter Reed! Do you want to turn that teacher into a mass murderer of his/her own students! Jokes about psychiatrists may have been fun for a while, but this is deadly serious, mate! The sooner we all get this through our noggins, the sooner we can ward off these worst case scenarios & relax with a joke or two. Obama would not have passed the NDA Act at the begining of 2012, along with the “Don’t demonstrate while I’m in town” Act & the “We can bomb you with drones in Ameirca” Act a few months later if he or his bosses didn’t have plans to use these bills. The NDA Act, remember, strips you of every right you ever had the moment martial law is declared. Don’t wish a psychiatrist on your worst enemy! (it can backfire)
She must have read how to create lambs for the slaughter and going off the deep end