Homicidal Teen Writes Dinosaur Story, Only Gets Suspended and Misdeamor Arrest
From Summerville, SC (
WCSC):
A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested
Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur
using a gun.
Alex Stone said he and his classmates were told in
class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a "status" as if it
was a Facebook page.
Stone said in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."
"I
killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said
I bought the gun to take care of the business," Stone said.
What a fucking sociopath.
According to police, when Stone was asked by school officials about
the comment written on the assignment, he said it was a joke.
Summerville police officials say Stone was disruptive and was told that he was being detained for disturbing schools.
Stone was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. District officials say the student has been suspended.
If anything, this was an under-reaction. Cops should've taken Alex behind the music building and put a bullet in his brain.
Proportional response and all.
(h/t
Reason Magazine)
Labels: education, gun, police, reason magazine, school, school to prison pipeline, south carolina
AL teacher keeps job after using Obama assassination as math example
In Alabama,
a math teacher used the hypothetical assassination of President Obama as a geometry example. Coach Gregory Harrison of Corner High School, Jefferson County, Alabama, has forfeited 10 days of pay, will undergo "sensitivity training" and has apologized for "the inappropriate comments" and an "error in judgement."
Now, joking about Lincoln and Booth could be considered "inappropriate".
Definitely Kennedy and Oswald
or King and Ray. But joking about someone who isn't dead and who gets regular death threats? And is the goddamned president, is black, and you're in fucking Alabama?
That's "inappropriate"? Let's flip this around. Imagine if a student were given the task of writing a word problem for a geometry lesson; if that student had used ANYONE living, they would have been expelled. Gone. Fini. Imagine if an Alabama student had done that about President Bush (43) during his presidency? Wanna guess there'd be criminal charges for "terroristic threats" by the local cops?
You know I'm right. So how come this teacher gets a (hard) slap on the wrist? Is it because it was Obama and not Bush? Is it because he's a teacher, not a student? Is it because "Coach" wins games and is popular?
Let's ask one of his former students:
Shea Cameron, one of Harrison's former students and supporters on the Facebook page "Keep Coach Harrison," says she understands the need for consequences, but doesn't think Harrison recieved an "accurate punishment."
"I believe that the example that the student gave was if you were to shoot the presidents ear off and Coach Harrison said that would be the point of tangency," she said.
"I honestly don't believe a reprimand was necessary," Cameron said. "I believe that he had a lapse in judgement, absolutely, but it was not intended to harm anyone."
Teachers should set the example for students to follow. This goes beyond "inappropriate" or an "error in judgement." The man should have been fired. Obviously, the community at large thinks this kind of thing is ok and would do nothing to deter it.
So the next time some kid gets expelled or arrested for joking about something like this, bring up Coach Gregory Harrison of Corner High School, Jefferson County, Alabama. Ask why he gets to keep his job.
Labels: alabama, assassination, corner high school, education, gregory harrison, high school, jefferson county, obama, police, president, terrorism
QOTD: Degrees + Studying = Elitist
"It seems rather elitist to me for people who maybe have degrees in this field to feel that they, because they've studied it, somehow know better than the parents..."
Rep. John Duncan (R-TN), on the support of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association for comprehensive sexual education, rather than abstinence-only classes. I shit you fucking not.
Labels: daily show, education, john duncan, jon stewart, qotd, sex, tennessee
