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 Azenine wrote:
This whole situation is just plain stupid. And the saddest thing about it, is it's all true and not some weird nightmare, like daedalus has said above me.

Oh, and I second Satan's Little Helper's comment about parents controlling what computer games their child plays.

And I third it. Seriously, a 9 year-old kid should NOT be playing games rated Mature. That's just irresponsible and wrong on too many levels to count.

~Tim?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
HAve you ever even stepped on a lego? Those things are deadly.

exactly,

no one really needs lego anyways.

Vulcan wrote:The whole point of zero tolerance is to avoid using any sort of thought or judgment in dealing with potential violations.

Which makes me wonder how that works in an institution that is supposed to be teaching KIDS how to think and make judgments...

Simple: the institution no longer teaches that; instead it has focused on rote memorization of standardized testing material (thanks, No Child Left Behind).

easysauce wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
HAve you ever even stepped on a lego? Those things are deadly.

exactly,

no one really needs lego anyways.

Shenanigans!

I do not have many regrets, but not buying this thing when it came out and I was working at a Toys R Us makes my top 10.

I filled my rough book in French class with stick-men, tanks, cards and planes flying around blasting each other to pieces with liberal use of red biro to decorate the copious bloodsplatter and conflagration of downed aircraft tumbling down the margins.

I turned out fine as did everyone else who did similar. But had these school people looked in my book they'd have probably called the National Guard to raid my bedroom.

Zero tolerance policies take away the ability for staff to think or have any responsibility for decisions. It's quite shameful because it's pupils that suffer. Is it because teachers are afraid of being accused of bias or not acting properly and being found personally liable for their decisions? Or is it school officials that are too timid to trust the judgment of their staff? If so, there is an issue with the way senior school staff support teachers. There should be a more considered way of managing things than cooking up zero tolerance policies that end up being applied needlessly because staff have no room to take things on their merits. The result of zero tolerance policies is that if a member of staff sees anything slightly inappropriate the schools brings down the hammer full force and start suspending pupils and making a spectacle of it. Which is just ridiculous, any kind of suspension is very disruptive to a child's education and marks their permanent school record.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I filled my rough book in French class with stick-men, tanks, cards and planes flying around blasting each other to pieces with liberal use of red biro to decorate the copious bloodsplatter and conflagration of downed aircraft tumbling down the margins.

Yes! In third grade my best friend and I made a huge (Huge for a third grader maybe) drawing of a Red Alert battlefield. Tesla coils everywhere, ore trucks going about their business, soldiers marching.

The cool part is that because it was so big we were able to keep it on the ground in the corner of class so we could work on it during lunches and whatnot. Imagine trying to do that these days!

 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I filled my rough book in French class with stick-men, tanks, cards and planes flying around blasting each other to pieces with liberal use of red biro to decorate the copious bloodsplatter and conflagration of downed aircraft tumbling down the margins.

Yes! In third grade my best friend and I made a huge (Huge for a third grader maybe) drawing of a Red Alert battlefield. Tesla coils everywhere, ore trucks going about their business, soldiers marching.

The cool part is that because it was so big we were able to keep it on the ground in the corner of class so we could work on it during lunches and whatnot. Imagine trying to do that these days!

Haha, I did that very same thing too.

 Azenine wrote:
This whole situation is just plain stupid. And the saddest thing about it, is it's all true and not some weird nightmare, like daedalus has said above me.

Oh, and I second Satan's Little Helper's comment about parents controlling what computer games their child plays.

Hey, I had a mother scream her head off at me for "trying to pawn a violent & sadistic war game that glorifies killing" to her son... (ie: I just ran a simple demo game)

Then asked Little Timmy what his favourite video game was...
He of course answered Call of Duty Modern Warfare! (or whatever title in the series it is that opens up with you helping a bunch of terrorists blow-up hordes of innocent people to protect your cover identity)

Parents of today for the most part are massive feth-headed idiots. I won't even begin on how stupid hockey parents are...

Experiment 626 wrote:

 Azenine wrote:
This whole situation is just plain stupid. And the saddest thing about it, is it's all true and not some weird nightmare, like daedalus has said above me.

Oh, and I second Satan's Little Helper's comment about parents controlling what computer games their child plays.

Hey, I had a mother scream her head off at me for "trying to pawn a violent & sadistic war game that glorifies killing" to her son... (ie: I just ran a simple demo game)

Then asked Little Timmy what his favourite video game was...
He of course answered Call of Duty Modern Warfare! (or whatever title in the series it is that opens up with you helping a bunch of terrorists blow-up hordes of innocent people to protect your cover identity)

Parents of today for the most part are massive feth-headed idiots. I won't even begin on how stupid hockey parents are...

Ah yes, CoD: MW 2 No Russian mission. The only mission I've ever seen that they let you skip because of the content.

I have had a friend called out on trying to kidnap a kid because the kid waved high to him and he had the gall to wave high back

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I have had a friend called out on trying to kidnap a kid because the kid waved high to him and he had the gall to wave high back

I don't believe your friend.

I saw it with my own two eyes.

I don't believe your eyes.....

You'll need to explain.

Did a passerby say you should not wave to kids because that encourages them to speak to strangers and now you're blowing it into a big deal?

Nope, Me and my friend where eating at McDonalds. We where walking to get our food when A kid waved hi to my friend and he waved back and said hi.
The mother flipped the hell out and said my friend was going to steal her son.

Ah. You didn't tell me this was a McDonald's customer. That's different. Those guys and gals are all weird.

Also, he shouldn't have tried to pick up the kid and run to his car. That's a dead give away that he's up to no good.

 kronk wrote:
Ah. You didn't tell me this was a McDonald's customer. That's different. Those guys and gals are all weird.

Also, he shouldn't have tried to pick up the kid and run to his car. That's a dead give away that he's up to no good.

Well, I know it's anecdotal, but I had a friend who stole someone's kid and brought it to his fan with the legitimate goal of giving it candy!

 kronk wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I have had a friend called out on trying to kidnap a kid because the kid waved high to him and he had the gall to wave high back

I don't believe your friend.

I'd believe it. When I was in middle school at Fort Bragg, parents across the fort got up in arms because a kid told his parents that while walking to school, a soldier running PT offered to walk him the rest of the way. He was late by thirty minutes and went on his own. The parents went a little stir crazy, and the base police launched an investigation to find out who the soldier was.

Irony, it turned out the soldier was the guy they put in charge of the investigation and he just wanted to make sure the kid crossed the street okay.

Parents do crazy things for their kids.

(Looks at news out of Cleveland) and I don't blame them.

nevermind

 Andrew1975 wrote:
This is very stupid, what's next?

Telling off an adult college student for depicting a cigarette in her artwork.

Why does it always seem like real life parodies itself?

For some reason this feels right here.

 Vulcan wrote:
The whole point of zero tolerance is to avoid using any sort of thought or judgment in dealing with potential violations.

Which makes me wonder how that works in an institution that is supposed to be teaching KIDS how to think and make judgments...

They don't see their mission as teaching kids how to think. They teach students what to think. I've had 3 sons go through the school system. I know first hand.

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

 Azenine wrote:
This whole situation is just plain stupid. And the saddest thing about it, is it's all true and not some weird nightmare, like daedalus has said above me.

Oh, and I second Satan's Little Helper's comment about parents controlling what computer games their child plays.

And I third it. Seriously, a 9 year-old kid should NOT be playing games rated Mature. That's just irresponsible and wrong on too many levels to count.

~Tim?

That reminds me of that woman who walked into a GW, watched her son have a trial game then started screaming the moment the first shooting phase started because it was so horribly violent. When the child was asked what his favourite games at home were, he immediately spouted "BLACK OPS!"...

A person can be smart. People are idiots.

When I was working at a game store ages ago a kid, 11-14, came in and wanted to buy Max Payne, but it was Rated M and our policy was not to sell Rated M to under 18 without a parent/guardian. I told him I couldn't sell it to him without his mom so he said Ok and went and got her. She asked why it was rated M I told her it was becuase of graphic violence, which she was Ok with, and then I said it also had some cursing in it, at which point she told him that he couldn't have it.

She was Ok with him shooting people in the face with a shotgun, but not with hearing the word 'gak' on occasion.

I once got suspended for something stupid before

I was in computer class with a poptart and lately we've been having bomb threats at the school as pranks or whatever, so I said, jokingly, "This pop tart is going to blow up"

Teacher heard me and I got suspended. For saying a pop tart was going to blow up... that's it.

But bringing a (excuse my language) fething tiny lego gun the size of a quarter into school and getting suspended? What the feth?
a 6 year old.

Honestly if a fething kid was going to shoot up his fethed up school which has fethed up kids in it he's not going to tell anyone! He's not going to put himself out there so his plans are foiled. The people who end up shooting up their schools wouldn't bring a lego gun to school, they'd bring an actual gun to school (especially not a pink fething bubble blaster)

 Ahtman wrote:
For some reason this feels right here.

Mega landshark ATTACK!

Hey now... some of those weapons are frighteningly realistic..... see below.

Brick Arms

Gotta love the disclaimer though
"(Disclaimer: All BrickArms tiny toy weapons are made of solid ABS plastic, designed to be used with LEGO® toys. They cannot shoot bullets and cannot be made to fire bullets in any way. Again, they are a TOY! T-O-Y Toyee!)"