Nanny and Police States Converging on Our Next Generation

"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur.  I bought the gun to take care of the business."

 

A 16 year old South Carolina student wrote these words on his "Fakebook" account in order to complete an assignment at his school.  But alas, his teacher saw the word "gun" and "take care of the business" and called the local police and contacted school officials after seeing the message.

 

When Stone was asked by school officials about the comment written on the assignment, he became "very irate" and said it was a joke, according to police accounts.  Stone's locker, book bag and person were all checked by police officials without finding a gun or evidence of a dead pet dinosaur.  The police report states that Stone continued to be disruptive and was placed in handcuffs, and was told that he was being detained for disorderly conduct at school.

 

Stone was suspended for the rest of the week, according to his mom, who was never contacted throughout the ordeal:  "If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point-of-view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me."

 

Sounding a bit more reasonable than the adults involved, Stone concluded:  "I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don't see the harm in it.  I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn't matter unless I put it out towards a person."

 

The Stone's have retained Attorney David Aylor, who has said his client's arrest over a creative writing assignment on Tuesday was "completely absurd" and is seeking to appeal the suspension and "proceed with the legal issues of [Stone's] arrest."

“This is a perfect example of ‘political correctness' that has exceeded the boundaries of common sense," Aylor said in a statement released on Thursday. "Students were asked to write about themselves and a creative Facebook status update – just days into the new school year – and my client was arrested and suspended after a school assignment."

 

"The information that is being reported is grossly incorrect in reference to what led to the juvenile being charged," said Capt. Jon Rogers in a Summerville police statement released on Thursday.  "The charges do not stem from anything involving a dinosaur or writing assignment, but the student's conduct."  No specifics on Stone's disorderly conduct were therein noted.

 

Story condensed and added onto from this article found at:  http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-st...

 

I saw this article and thought it was totally crazy, but indicative of the crazy that exists in our high schools.  The teachers urge their students to be creative and trot out some of history's greatest literature to help them figure out how to write.  But then idiots like this boys teacher, the school's administrators and the local flatfoots beat the creativity out of them when they react like this to the fantastic story of shooting the neighbor's pet dinosaur. 

 

But where do our children get such ideas?  Let's take a look at the Most popular high school reading lists.  Once you get past the three Shakespearean titles in the top nine (Hamlet, MacBeth, and Romeo & Juliet-- all involving large amounts of violence, depravity, and killing in the era before guns) and The Scarlet Letter, another oldie which remarkably has no guns mentioned in it, you are left with five novels where guns feature prominently, along with a lot of other crazy behavior

 

I include .pdf files of each novel along with some statements about guns found in each of these most popular high school books.  I also include a brief plot synopsis detailing some of the violence within.  Obviously if a sixteen year old student wrote anything remotely like these novels, they would be finding themselves suspended from school for the rest of their teens, and spending some time in the local jail with our current brand of crazy academicians in the schools:

The Great Gatsby a novel of wild parties, bootlegging, infidelities where the title character is killed by a gun in the end, and then the murderer turns the gun on himself: 

"a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns"

"he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns."

"In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far forward"

 

Lord of the Flies a group of kids get on an island and start torturing and killing each other as they revert to savagery without the benefit of using guns: 

"Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy."

"High up among the bulging clouds thunder went off like a gun."

"In the stern sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun."

 

Of Mice and Men a mentally slow but strong man accidentally kills a puppy and a lady due to his desire to stroke soft things and winds up being shot by his guardian out of love:

"I’d put the gun right there.” He pointed with his toe. “Right back of the head. He wouldn’t even quiver.”

"Carlson squinted down the barrel of his gun. “Lookin’ for his old lady. I seen him going round and round outside.”

“I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself. I’ll shoot ‘im in the guts. Come on, you guys.”

 

To Kill a Mockingbird  An innocent black man accused of raping a white woman gets shot and killed when trying to escape from prison.  The young narrator's neighbor kills with a knife the person who attacks the boy. 

"as I tripped the roar of a shotgun shattered the neighborhood."

"“Don’t you ever let me catch you pointing that gun at anybody again,”

"I saw him shift his gun to the crook of his arm."

 

The Catcher in the Rye Several shootings have been associated with the novel, including Robert John Bardo's shooting of Rebecca Schaeffer and John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Following Mark David Chapman's shooting of John Lennon, Chapman was arrested with a copy of the book that he had purchased that day, inside which he had written, "To Holden Caulfield, From Holden Caulfield, This is my statement".:

"We were going to take our lunches and all, and our BB guns"

"we were kids and all, and we thought we could shoot something with our BB guns."

"Don't you think if someone starts out to tell you about his father's farm, he should stick to his guns"

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Some of the foolish people who run the schools do not seem to have much common sense. This situation could have been avoided if the teacher or someone in charge  would have sat down and discussed the situation with the student. The first order of business would have been to contact a parent if they were planning on involving the police but instead some nit-wit over reacts and causes a lot of grief for the student and his family. And then we have the silly police officer making the statement, "The charges do not stem from anything involving a dinosaur or writing assignment, but the student's conduct." Did he stop to think that the students conduct was directly related to the idiocy of the adults involved with this fiasco?

I found another crazy summer education story in today's news.  A girl is suspended for saying "bless you" in school.  It's enough to drive college presidents to drink:

A high school senior in Tennessee says she was given an in-school suspension for saying "bless you" to a classmate who had sneezed.

Kendra Turner, a student at Dyer County High School, told WMC-TV that when her teacher told her she had broken a class rule against invoking religious terms, she complained.

“She said that we’re not going to have godly speaking in her class," Turner said, "and that’s when I said we have a constitutional right. ... It’s all right to defend God and it’s our constitutional right, because we have a freedom of religion and freedom of speech."

Turner was sent to the administrator's office, where she finished the class period with an "in-school suspension," WMC said.

According to Turner, school officials told her parents that their daughter had shouted "bless you" and had disrupted the class.

Local pastor Becky Winegardner said this wasn't the first time Turner's teacher had clashed with students over religion.

“There were several students that were talking about this particular faculty member there that was very demeaning to them in regard to their faith,” Winegardner told WMC. “This was something that had come up previously in the last few weeks just since the beginning of school, and I shared with all of those students what their rights were.”

Turner said that "bless you" is listed among several other banned terms on the teacher's whiteboard.

"'Bless you,' 'hang out,' 'my bad,' 'dumb,' 'stupid,' 'stuff' and just things like that," Turner told WBBJ-TV.

She added that after her suspension, fellow students wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Bless You" to support her.

The Dyer County Schools superintendent's office could not immediately be reached for comment. According to WBBJ, school officials declined "multiple requests to talk on camera about the incident, but said [the incident] has been blown way out of proportion."

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