Students Expelled - for Touching a BB Gun
Wow, can you imagine what could have happened to Ralphie in A Christmas Story? He actually shot the darn thing, and almost took his eye out, too.
In Georgia, three seventh-grade students have been expelled from school - for touching a BB gun. All right, all right, one of them actually brought the gun onto a school bus.
Andre Bussey, Alfred Burns and Darius Allen were expelled when Allen brought a BB gun onto a Cowan Road Middle School bus. Burns and Bussey touched the gun. When Spalding County school administrators found out, all three were expelled.
A school tribunal kicked Allen out of the school system. Bussey and Burns were given more lenient punishment - expelled for a year and a half for touching the gun.
"And just being put out of school for just touching a gun, I don't think that fair at all," said Burns' mother Audrey Hightower. However, a school spokesman said the boys committed a serious violation and that the school stands behind the punishment.
What do you readers think? Over the top, if you ask me.
2 comments:
I agree with you. This is definitely over the top. We keep making knee-jerk reactions that affect everyone, in order to limit bad behavior of a vast minority.
Should guns be brought to school? Probably not. But as a seventh grade kid, who wouldn't think it was cool just to see or hold it?
I'm curious if this violated a crime or a standing school policy. I don't know how specific the rules are. Do they say that touching a toy gun is cause for expulsion? If they took such drastic action against something that wasn't illegal or against school policies, then there are solid reasons for protest here. What other unwritten rules are cause for expulsion?
Just some thoughts,
BJ
Stupid Scholar
I cannot believe the punishment for the two kids. I would be furious if I were the parents. Did they point the gun at other students, or did they simply touch the gun? Crazy!
Post a Comment