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Unyielding
10-year-old suspended for bringing ‘level 2 lookalike firearm’ to school [UPDATE]
Sounds pretty serious! It wasn’t just any old “lookalike firearm” that got Nathan Entingh, a fifth-grader at Devonshire Alternative Elementary School…
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Education
Two elementary school students ARRESTED for bringing toy gun to school
Suspension from school? Expulsion? Meh, chickenfeed. Kids who bring toy guns to school need is a stronger deterrent. They need to…
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Education
Social worker, principal called in to disarm 8-year-old … of his Lego gun
An upstate New York school averted yet another domestic terrorist threat when administrators swiftly dealt with an 8-year-old boy who…
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Education
6-year-old expelled from school for bringing unhealthy snack in lunchbox
And there’s more … much more. From MailOnline: A headteacher who expelled a six-year-old boy after he brought in Mini Cheddars…
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Unyielding
FL bill would give schoolchildren right to bear make-believe arms
Think of it as zero tolerance for zero tolerance. It is to a bill introduced in the Florida state legislature…
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Education
Obama Administration pressures schools to adopt racial quotas in discipline
Crime rates are not the same for different racial groups, and student misconduct rates aren’t, either. The Supreme Court ruled…
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Education
Teacher reportedly threatens student with fake gun
This column has taken a dim view on schools that take a dim view on the use of imaginary weapons…
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Education
School suspends 7-year-old for accidentally biting breakfast pastry into shape of gun
Maryland educators have struck again. In their quest to become stewards of the safest schools in the country, administrators in…
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Education
Student suspended for having picture of gun on his laptop
The thought police have struck again in their crusade to stamp out gun violence by nipping crimes in the bud.…
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Law and Government
Bridge too far: 6-year-old expelled for bringing toy gun to school
There have now been some half dozen stories of school administrators overreacting to toy (or imaginary) guns in the wake…
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National Security
5-year-old suspended from playtime for making toy gun out of Legos
It is a time for a stop-the-lunacy campaign where firearms are concerned. The reference here is not the lunacy that…
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Law and Government
Kindergartner suspended for threatening to 'shoot' a classmate with bubbles
She’s forever blowing bubbles, and now a 5-year-old from Mount Carmel, Pa., has been suspended after threatening to turn her…
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