7th-grader suspended for having gun keychain

[Locutus]

COVENTRY, R.I. - A 12-year-old boy was suspended from a Coventry middle school after his parents said he brought a small gun keychain to school.

Joseph Lyssikatos said the keychain was in his backpack at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School on Thursday when it fell out. A classmate picked it up and started showing it to other students.

A teacher confiscated it and before Joseph knew it, he was suspended.

"This boy was the one waving it or showing it to other kids. Not Joseph. Joseph wasn't doing that so why weren't both of them reprimanded," said Bonnie Bonanno, Joseph's mother.

The keychain in question is slightly larger than a quarter. Joseph told NBC 10 he bought it for 25 tickets at an arcade.

School officials released a statement that said, "Because this is a student discipline issue, we cannot comment on any specifics."
The school's zero tolerance policy states that suspensions are determined by the principal.

However, Joseph and his parents said he was told of the suspension by the school's behavioral specialist, and the principal and superintendent won't return their calls.

The school also informed Joseph's family that he would not be allowed to attend a class field trip to Salem at the end of the month.

"That's disgraceful because, OK, being suspended for three days, and this big punishment is enough for him mentally," Bonanno said.
Said Joseph: "I'm missing the NECAP testing and I'm in advanced math so I'm going to have to re-do all the homework I'm going to miss for advanced math."

7th-grader suspended for having gun keychain - News, Weather and Classifieds for Southern New England

 

[taxslave]

This anti gun phobia by leftards has gotten out of hand.

 

[PoliticalNick]

8O:roll:

 

[JLM]

This anti gun phobia by leftards has gotten out of hand.

I'm not so sure it's a political thing, more to do with being born without a brain!

COVENTRY, R.I. - A 12-year-old boy was suspended from a Coventry middle school after his parents said he brought a small gun keychain to school.

Joseph Lyssikatos said the keychain was in his backpack at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School on Thursday when it fell out. A classmate picked it up and started showing it to other students.

A teacher confiscated it and before Joseph knew it, he was suspended.

"This boy was the one waving it or showing it to other kids. Not Joseph. Joseph wasn't doing that so why weren't both of them reprimanded," said Bonnie Bonanno, Joseph's mother.

The keychain in question is slightly larger than a quarter. Joseph told NBC 10 he bought it for 25 tickets at an arcade.

School officials released a statement that said, "Because this is a student discipline issue, we cannot comment on any specifics."
The school's zero tolerance policy states that suspensions are determined by the principal.

However, Joseph and his parents said he was told of the suspension by the school's behavioral specialist, and the principal and superintendent won't return their calls.

The school also informed Joseph's family that he would not be allowed to attend a class field trip to Salem at the end of the month.

"That's disgraceful because, OK, being suspended for three days, and this big punishment is enough for him mentally," Bonanno said.
Said Joseph: "I'm missing the NECAP testing and I'm in advanced math so I'm going to have to re-do all the homework I'm going to miss for advanced math."

7th-grader suspended for having gun keychain - News, Weather and Classifieds for Southern New England

The world has come a long way since the days at school in the community where I spent my child hood. It was a little before my time probably in the late 30s or early 40s the kids were bringing stumping powder to school c/w caps and at recess they set a charge under a stump in the school yard and just as the kids were going up the steps into the school there would be a big bang while a stump was blown into the air. Different breed then, these kids weren't busy texting. -

 

[PoliticalNick]

The irony of this is Rhode Island has some of the laxest gun laws in the country permitting open-carry of handguns and rifles, no duty to retreat on private property, and permits issued with only a safety exam (no background checks).

Gun laws in Rhode Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You would think given this that a toy gun keychain the size of a silver dollar might not be much cause for concern.

I think the parents should go pass their safety test, buy a couple of .45s and express their right to open-carry right into the principal's office to discuss the suspension.

 

[Omicron]

COVENTRY, R.I. - A 12-year-old boy was suspended from a Coventry middle school after his parents said he brought a small gun keychain to school.

Joseph Lyssikatos said the keychain was in his backpack at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School on Thursday when it fell out. A classmate picked it up and started showing it to other students.

A teacher confiscated it and before Joseph knew it, he was suspended.

"This boy was the one waving it or showing it to other kids. Not Joseph. Joseph wasn't doing that so why weren't both of them reprimanded," said Bonnie Bonanno, Joseph's mother.

The keychain in question is slightly larger than a quarter. Joseph told NBC 10 he bought it for 25 tickets at an arcade.

School officials released a statement that said, "Because this is a student discipline issue, we cannot comment on any specifics."
The school's zero tolerance policy states that suspensions are determined by the principal.

However, Joseph and his parents said he was told of the suspension by the school's behavioral specialist, and the principal and superintendent won't return their calls.

The school also informed Joseph's family that he would not be allowed to attend a class field trip to Salem at the end of the month.

"That's disgraceful because, OK, being suspended for three days, and this big punishment is enough for him mentally," Bonanno said.
Said Joseph: "I'm missing the NECAP testing and I'm in advanced math so I'm going to have to re-do all the homework I'm going to miss for advanced math."

7th-grader suspended for having gun keychain - News, Weather and Classifieds for Southern New England

>head warps<

~mind~discomberates~

Imagine if the kid had brought a cap gun to school.

Something is driving Americans into frantic socio-paranoia.

How come as a teen me and my pals knew all about how to shoot 22's and shotguns, and we'd go out into the coolies to shoot for weekend entertainment, and we *never* thought about taking our weapons to school. I mean it wasn't even a supressed desire. We *litteraly* never thought about it.

Maybe it was because we got strapped according to a system such that by the time we got old enough to use guns, we didn't know why we never thought about running downtown shooting store windows.

(And yes I already know about all the debates about corporal punishment, and it boils down to when it's used according to a pattern, the kid can sanely choose to agree or disagree with his adult enforcer, but when it comes random, people get messed up, such that they think the solution is to disallow it altogether).

I just got an idea.

American universities rule at post-grad stuff, but Canadian universities shine at under-grad. How about if the karma-debt of the total wrong of forcing natives into bording schools gets paid back in a roundabout way by turning those schools built by the ancient anglo Canucks with their UEL temporal lobes spun around the British Crown like cotton candy into bording-house high-schools for American parents desperate for their kids to get a good education. Imagine, the extra dime chargable for their kids learning another language (for American that would mean Spanish, whereupon Anglos and Canuck-French get into heated debates over who can learn Spanish easier... but that's later... it wasn't until I as an Anglo was resting in a hotel in Edmonston that I found a channel with French-Canadian game shows, and my head got knocked out by how Quebec's got it all. The have a bigger population that Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland.

I did business in the States, and I learned that Canadians keep secrets.

Anyway... bla bla bla... Quebec is now officially protected by the Canadian shield, where they can do what they want, etc. etc. bla bla bal... but you know ... that was the original deal.

It wasn't until a bunch of Americans pushing north to carve Ontario out of Quebec because they were UEL's that the crap came down on what was supposed to be a french colony got hammered by those bitter pricks kick out of the USA for being on the side of the Crown.

Anyway... back to modern business. Quebeque has the best chemistry, and I'd like to see what Quebec can do with ear-piece language translators.

Think logically. Quebec has chemistry dominance.

Quebec gets ear dominance of babble-fish translators. We know they're dorkole enough to do that.

I know that because they're Canadian they got structured enough into stability for that to happen.

 

[Sal]

I find several things interesting about these toy gun occurrences that seem to keep popping up lately.

With the exception of this board I find very few Canadians interested in guns, or willing to fight to the death to keep their guns, and most people within my world couldn't care less about guns with the exception of a few hunters. But even those hunters don't speak constantly about their weapon stash, they are not fuking obsessed about their guns and speaking about the need to defend and protect themselves and/or killing everyone on sight that might break into their house.

If a kid came to school in my area with that type of toy it might at most be confiscated. Why is this such a big deal in a country that would support every man, woman, and child going back to carrying a six shooter on their hip. I don't understand . They want their kids fully armed and loaded. Why the discrepancy?

The other thing about this particular article which is fully revealing is that they state that in spite of this type of decision usually being made by the principle who then contacts the family, it was the school behaviorist who contacted the family. Also the school refuses to comment on other behavior (because legally they can not) and the parents seem like a really upstanding pair wondering why the other student was not suspended.

My guess would be in order to generate a news story a whole lot has been trimmed about the kid, previous behaviour and problems that have already occurred such as last warnings for acting out.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I find several things interesting about these toy gun occurrences that seem to keep popping up lately.

With the exception of this board I find very few Canadians interested in guns, or willing to fight to the death to keep their guns, and most people within my world couldn't care less about guns with the exception of a few hunters. But even those hunters don't speak constantly about their weapon stash, they are not fuking obsessed about their guns and speaking about the need to defend and protect themselves and/or killing everyone on sight that might break into their house.

I know only one gun collector and if you get him taking about his guns, he will talk your ear off. It is a passion. Now if they tried to take them away, I don't think it would be the OK corral but I would expect him to use all legal means possible to fight it.

He is very opinionated that it is not really there for self defense. He just likes shooting at the range.

 

[Sal]

I know only one gun collector and if you get him taking about his guns, he will talk your ear off. It is a passion. Now if they tried to take them away, I don't think it would be the OK corral but I would expect him to use all legal means possible to fight it.

He is very opinionated that it is not really there for self defense. He just likes shooting at the range.

exactly which proves my point, one... out of all the people that you know and he is likely a very balanced individual with a passion not a nut with three teeth who can barely spell his name... my Facebook crawl is disturbing...

 

[Locutus]

I'm more concerned about head-shrinkers, bureaucrats, 'educators' and other erstwhile busybodys that find possession of keychains, pens, drawings of guns and other heinous behaviour a problem.

Those types of dangerous arseholes need to be put down, cleansed from society. ;-)

 

[Sal]

I'm more concerned about head-shrinkers, bureaucrats, 'educators' and other erstwhile busybodys that find possession of keychains, pens, drawings of guns and other heinous behaviour a problem.

Those types of dangerous arseholes need to be put down, cleansed from society. ;-)

the balance is gone...their pendulum keeps swinging haphazardly too far right, too far left...there is never peace when there is no balance and there never will be...people have to have a middle ground that doesn't infringe on them...as soon as it swings too far to one side chaos ensues.

It is not about busybodies, individuals have no power...it's systemic.

And as I pointed out this issue in this particular case is not about a keychain, but it was convenient to make it appear so.

Wouldn't have a story otherwise.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I find several things interesting about these toy gun occurrences that seem to keep popping up lately.

With the exception of this board I find very few Canadians interested in guns, or willing to fight to the death to keep their guns, and most people within my world couldn't care less about guns with the exception of a few hunters. But even those hunters don't speak constantly about their weapon stash, they are not fuking obsessed about their guns and speaking about the need to defend and protect themselves and/or killing everyone on sight that might break into their house.

Pssst! Um, right. . . nudge, nudge; wink, wink. . . long, round, hard, spits out a powerful load. Get my drift? Eh? Eh? Nudge-nudge, wink-wink. Say no more, squire!

 

[Goober]

the balance is gone...their pendulum keeps swinging haphazardly too far right, too far left...there is never peace when there is no balance and there never will be...people have to have a middle ground that doesn't infringe on them...as soon as it swings too far to one side chaos ensues.

It is not about busybodies, individuals have no power...it's systemic.

And as I pointed out this issue in this particular case is not about a keychain, but it was convenient to make it appear so.

Wouldn't have a story otherwise.

No middle ground and no sense at all from both ends of the spectrum.

 

[JLM]

I find several things interesting about these toy gun occurrences that seem to keep popping up lately.

With the exception of this board I find very few Canadians interested in guns, or willing to fight to the death to keep their guns, and most people within my world couldn't care less about guns with the exception of a few hunters. But even those hunters don't speak constantly about their weapon stash, they are not fuking obsessed about their guns and speaking about the need to defend and protect themselves and/or killing everyone on sight that might break into their house.

If a kid came to school in my area with that type of toy it might at most be confiscated. Why is this such a big deal in a country that would support every man, woman, and child going back to carrying a six shooter on their hip. I don't understand . They want their kids fully armed and loaded. Why the discrepancy?

The other thing about this particular article which is fully revealing is that they state that in spite of this type of decision usually being made by the principle who then contacts the family, it was the school behaviorist who contacted the family. Also the school refuses to comment on other behavior (because legally they can not) and the parents seem like a really upstanding pair wondering why the other student was not suspended.

My guess would be in order to generate a news story a whole lot has been trimmed about the kid, previous behaviour and problems that have already occurred such as last warnings for acting out.

Actually Sal, I don't think across the entire population there is a great deal of difference in gun attitudes in the two countries. Of course every time there is a massacre in the U.S. you hear from the noisy minority who are vehemently opposed to guns and the shrill ones opposed to them. You are probably only hearing from 5% of the population on either side and out of over 300 million that can be a lot of noise. Of course the entire west and mid west is comprised of farmers and ranchers so they have good reason to want to retain their weaponry.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Of course the entire west and mid west is comprised of farmers and ranchers so they have good reason to want to retain their weaponry.

What reason is that? I ask in all seriousness, not sarcastically or laying a trap for you. What reason do farmers and ranchers have for weapons that others don't have?

 

[JLM]

What reason is that? I ask in all seriousness, not sarcastically or laying a trap for you. What reason do farmers and ranchers have for weapons that others don't have?

Ask a rancher whose sheep have fallen prey to cougars.

 

[#juan]

the balance is gone...their pendulum keeps swinging haphazardly too far right, too far left...there is never peace when there is no balance and there never will be...people have to have a middle ground that doesn't infringe on them...as soon as it swings too far to one side chaos ensues.

It is not about busybodies, individuals have no power...it's systemic.

And as I pointed out this issue in this particular case is not about a keychain, but it was convenient to make it appear so.

Wouldn't have a story otherwise.

I've been here about as long as anyone and I am shocked that supposedly educated people would go to the trouble to suspend a student for the mere ownership of a keychain toy. Just thinking about this topic leads one down ridiculous paths. If a student uttered "bang bang", would he be suspended for possession of the sound of a gun? Too silly...:roll:

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Ask a rancher whose sheep have fallen prey to cougars.

Ah, OK. Got it now. Sorry, seem to have a bit of density in the brain-pan today.

 

[#juan]

Ah, OK. Got it now. Sorry, seem to have a bit of density in the brain-pan today.

At least....:smile:

 

[Sal]

I've been here about as long as anyone and I am shocked that supposedly educated people would go to the trouble to suspend a student for the mere ownership of a keychain toy. Just thinking about this topic leads one down ridiculous paths. If a student uttered "bang bang", would he be suspended for possession of the sound of a gun? Too silly...:roll:

it's just bizarre to me too