He shall not pass (for a few days, anyway...)

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-02-2015 02:07PM #1

You know how it is. You watch The Hobbit and you bring a ring from into school to indulge in a little bit of fantasy role play with your mates, and...

... you get suspended for "threatening" behaviour!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-boy-suspended-bringing-ring-power-school-article-1.2099103

I don't think it helped that the kid in question looks like Gollum.

calanus · 02-02-2015 02:09PM

He's only 9 and this is his third suspension..... Must be a cheeky little git anyway at the best of times.

The Backwards Man · 02-02-2015 02:10PM

There must be muppets running Kermit Elementary School

shruikan2553 · 02-02-2015 02:13PM

calanus wrote: »

He's only 9 and this is his third suspension..... Must be a cheeky little git anyway at the best of times.

He called another kid black and brought in an encyclopaedia.

We need to stop him now before he becomes the next Hitler.

hatrickpatrick · 02-02-2015 02:14PM

Can't read the article now but I'm assuming this happened in the United States, right?
Where they suspend kids for making fake guns out of fingers and drug them up for not behaving like dull adults?

Little CuChulainn · 02-02-2015 02:14PM

calanus wrote: »

He's only 9 and this is his third suspension..... Must be a cheeky little git anyway at the best of times.

Suspension number one - referring to a black person as "black"

Suspension number two - Bringing to school a book containing an illustration of a pregnant woman

Suspension three - Offering to make his friend invisible.

I'd be taking my kid out of that school pretty sharpish. It's obviously run by lunatics.

The Peanut · 02-02-2015 02:15PM

I could have stopped reading after Texas.

Duckworth_Luas · 02-02-2015 02:16PM

I think I passed through Kermit, Texas once but my recollection is a bit fozzie!

K4t · 02-02-2015 02:20PM

The Peanut wrote: »

I could have stopped reading after Texas.

The only time most Texans use their imagination is once a week at church.

The Backwards Man · 02-02-2015 02:22PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I think I passed through Kermit, Texas once but my recollection is a bit fozzie!

Our talents are wasted here Duckie, these kids have probably never even heard of Waldorf and Statler.

suicide_circus · 02-02-2015 02:25PM

Tried to watch The Hobbit there the other night, got about 40 minutes in and turned it off due to extreme boredom. Really liked the LOTR movies but this was just piss poor.

anncoates · 02-02-2015 02:26PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There must be muppets running Kermit Elementary School

Probably just making a Tolkien gesture, tbh.

02-02-2015 02:27PM

I bet that the principal just wanted the ring for herself

Peregrine · 02-02-2015 02:28PM

Who wouldn't want to be invisible? :eek:

The kid offers him to make him invisible and he goes off and gets him suspended. How ungrateful :mad:

floggg · 02-02-2015 02:29PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Can't read the article now but I'm assuming this happened in the United States, right?
Where they suspend kids for making fake guns out of fingers and drug them up for not behaving like dull adults?

Texas. Nuff said.

The Peanut · 02-02-2015 02:30PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Our talents are wasted here Duckie, these kids have probably never even heard of Waldorf and Statler.

Waldorf and Stadler were at least funny......;)

"That opening was catchy".
"Yeah, so is smallpox".

Duggy747 · 02-02-2015 02:30PM

A good days work in the salt mines on Mars will straight him up quickly.

valoren · 02-02-2015 02:30PM

If he does the "rat-at-at-at-at-at" machine gun sound, will he be suspended for assault with a deadly weapon?

calanus · 02-02-2015 03:08PM

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

Suspension number one - referring to a black person as "black"

Suspension number two - Bringing to school a book containing an illustration of a pregnant woman

Suspension three - Offering to make his friend invisible.

I'd be taking my kid out of that school pretty sharpish. It's obviously run by lunatics.

looks like I certainly didn't bother reading the article! Ooops....

K4t · 02-02-2015 03:56PM

Over 73% of the people in Kermit, Texas are religious.

26.37% are Catholic and 0.45% are another Christian faith. But of course that couldn't possibly have anything to do with why this kid was suspended for professing to possess a magical ring or for literally possessing a book with the title "The Big Book of Knowledge". Leave people alone they say, stop criticising people's beliefs they say, they're not doing any harm they say. These are just minor examples of what can potentially happen when those beliefs or the respect for those beliefs replaces common sense.

Ficheall · 02-02-2015 04:18PM

Nim wrote: »

Who wouldn't want to be invisible? :eek:

Hmm... Interesting...
Would you date an invisible (permanently invisible, as opposed to having the ability to switch back and forth) person ? Ceteris paribus* and all that...

*Ceteris paribus = all other things being equal.
That is the only thing I learned in Economics in college, so I have to use it when I can, so forgive me.

Philo Beddoe · 02-02-2015 04:21PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Can't read the article now but I'm assuming this happened in the United States, right?
Where they suspend kids for making fake guns out of fingers and drug them up for not behaving like dull adults?

It's Texas, the kid could have brought in a real gun and nobody would have blinked an eye.

Philo Beddoe · 02-02-2015 04:24PM

Ficheall wrote: »

That is the only thing I learned in Economics in college, so I have to use it when I can, so forgive me.

So how are things working out in the Department of Finance?

BeerWolf · 02-02-2015 04:30PM

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

/snip

This PC'ing is getting more disgusting everyday...

kylith · 02-02-2015 04:31PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Can't read the article now but I'm assuming this happened in the United States, right?
Where they suspend kids for making fake guns out of fingers and drug them up for not behaving like dull adults?

Texas

Wossack · 02-02-2015 04:34PM

Proper order - you cant use the the one ring to make people 'disappear' at will. Kid should take the suspension time and go back and rewatch the movies

Timberrrrrrrr · 02-02-2015 04:35PM

Texas, Surprised they haven't tried to force an exorcism.

One eyed Jack · 02-02-2015 04:58PM

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

Suspension number one - referring to a black person as "black"

Suspension number two - Bringing to school a book containing an illustration of a pregnant woman

Suspension three - Offering to make his friend invisible.

I'd be taking my kid out of that school pretty sharpish. It's obviously run by lunatics.

It's the parents are at fault here, not the school. The parents get the same student handbook as all the other students, and yet this one child seems to be such a "trouble maker".

We're missing context here, so I wouldn't be too quick to jump to conclusions about why the school chose to suspend the child.

Adamantium · 02-02-2015 05:20PM

valoren wrote: »

If he does the "rat-at-at-at-at-at" machine gun sound, will he be suspended for assault with a deadly weapon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDztrw_0N8M

Little CuChulainn · 02-02-2015 05:53PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

It's the parents are at fault here, not the school. The parents get the same student handbook as all the other students, and yet this one child seems to be such a "trouble maker".

We're missing context here, so I wouldn't be too quick to jump to conclusions about why the school chose to suspend the child.

A 98 page rule book for a kid to follow?

K4t · 02-02-2015 06:01PM

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

A 98 page rule book for a kid to follow?

This x 98

Lunatics.

He shall not pass (for a few days, anyway...)

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