12-year-old boy suspended for
5 days, deputies visit house after
toy gun seen during online class
WGHP-TV [Greensboro NC],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/4/2020 2:19:45 PM
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –A boy received a week’s suspension after a teacher spotted a toy gun during an online class, KDVR reports. On Aug. 27, 12-year-old Isaiah Elliot, a Grand Mountain student, was in his online art class when he allegedly flashed a toy gun across his computer screen. It was neon green and black with an orange tip. On the side were the words “Zombie Hunter.” According to the sheriff’s report, the teacher said she assumed it was a toy gun, not a real gun. When the principal found out, Isaiah was given a five-day suspension. The El Paso
Reply 1 - Posted by:
901AtTheRiver 9/4/2020 2:30:40 PM (No. 531475)
This kid was in his OWN HOME. When I went to high school all the guys myself included, had shotguns hanging from gun racks in their pickup trucks during hunting season. Ammo was stashed under the seat. The hunt started after the last class of the day. Nobody got excited about it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mushroom 9/4/2020 2:30:46 PM (No. 531476)
I leave the absurdities of this for others to discuss. My question is simple. Exactly *WHO* was going to be harmed?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/4/2020 2:31:49 PM (No. 531477)
As they say, "Public education is child abuse." It is good the school can't be sued for stupidity.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 9/4/2020 2:33:12 PM (No. 531479)
This is a good thing. This chid will never ever trust a teacher or police again. He will never trust the goobernment to do what is right. He will, in essence, become a true believer in limited goobernment. This is how to change the attitudes of the young.
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In high school everyone had a shotgun in the window rack of their pickup. Almost everyone also carried a folding knife in the building. You never knew what you would need out for in shop or Ag classes...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
tearza 9/4/2020 2:43:57 PM (No. 531488)
Ridiculous!!! When I was a young lad back in the fifties we use to wear our holster and fake guns to school and nobody said a thing...
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Snowflake principle. The teacher said she knew is was a toy--sounds like a nerfy-kinda thing. Best to homeschool. Principle and teacher are a parental team...probably give the nerfy toy guns to their kids and no one is the wiser.
This gestapo stuff is really getting out of hand!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/4/2020 2:51:43 PM (No. 531492)
We had cap guns growing up. I remember my grandfather coming to visit and bringing us rolls of caps. The police would better serve us if they'd go after gangs and rioters.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mathman 9/4/2020 2:55:54 PM (No. 531495)
Public School Gestapo.
What a farrago of nonsense. 5 day suspension? Why not just expel the kid?
Get him out of the school system. Don't let him get educated. He does not deserve an education.
For that matter, why not just kill him? Serves him right. School system is just too weak to do what is needed. My G_d, he might even defend himself when the State comes to punish him for his thoughts. And we can't have that.
The State will tell you what you can do. The State will tell you what to think. Always the State. The noble, glorious State. The Incorruptible State.
Yeah. Right.
The State is coming to put'cha all in chains.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 9/4/2020 2:56:01 PM (No. 531496)
Too bad the authorities don't go after the 'hackers' that are getting into the online school sessions and showing porn and themselves naked, as enthusiastically as they are with a kid having a toy gun in his own room.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Osprey21 9/4/2020 2:56:02 PM (No. 531497)
The new 'Sturmabteilung' are everywhere, and they're watching you and your families.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
PostAway 9/4/2020 3:00:54 PM (No. 531499)
Suspend a kid from a closed school’s online classes and then what? Lock him in a closet? I can’t believe that because someone is on an internet call to a home that gives them any control over what is in that house. What if there’s a copy of “Mein Kampf” on a bookshelf behind a child or a family heirloom musket or sword? I hope some lawyers chime in here. Public schools are out of control.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Republic Can 9/4/2020 3:05:36 PM (No. 531502)
When I was a kid, there were as many .22's in the umbrella rack in the hallways as umbrellas. SMH
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Kowgirl 9/4/2020 3:06:02 PM (No. 531503)
Parents need to make sure the their home computer camera is situated in a way that only the student's head and shoulders are visible, and not give the teacher a panaramic view of the room at home. A bonus to this is that a parent can sit off camera and observe/listen to any potential propaganda the teacher may be inclined to share.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/4/2020 3:10:12 PM (No. 531510)
When I was a kid, the 6th graders brought their shotguns and .22 cal. rifles to school, so they could go small game hunting as they walked home after classes. Brought them on the bus, along with ammunition and turned them in at the Principle's office for safe keeping till the end of the day.
A toy gun is not a threat. The Principle needs suspended, without pay for five days to consider his insipid bow to political correctness.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 9/4/2020 3:12:16 PM (No. 531512)
If the police showed up to my house under those circumstances, I would not let them enter and invite them to get the heck off of my property unless they had a warrant.
A lawsuit for harassment against the teacher should be filed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NYbob 9/4/2020 3:14:01 PM (No. 531513)
If the parents don't sue the jackbooted principal, they invite more of the same for themselves and everyone else. I would be at every school board meeting, every school night, every public event involving that school board and that police department. Also make sure the 'social welfare' crowd is involved as well. FTA - The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office was also asked to do a welfare check at the boy’s home without notifying his parents beforehand.
We are at the mercy of hidden cowards.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
geoguy 9/4/2020 3:14:37 PM (No. 531515)
My school in Upstate NY had a champion rifle team (as in you could earn a high school letter like any other sport) and kids would bring their guns from home, in a soft gun case, onto the school bus. Being out in the country and being more mature in the 1960s than the general population of today, we all knew not to play with the gun on the bus or anywhere else. We understood it was not a toy. (BTW, the bolt was always removed during transport).
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 9/4/2020 3:16:02 PM (No. 531516)
IN HS for a few weeks a dozen or so of us, maybe two dozen, carried "bean guns" which looked exactly like a Walther PPK, in black plastic. You poured the butt full of dried white navy beans and the system would feed them and fire them out straight for about 10-15 ft. Not hard enough to even be painful on bare skin.
We had bean gun fights in the hallways between classes until the rolling and slipping mashed beans became a mess and slipping hazard and the teachers ordered "no more bean guns in school"....so we
complied and that was that.
Having a pocket knife in one pocket and a realistic looking handgun in your other pocket was no big deal in 1969 in central Fla.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 9/4/2020 3:17:06 PM (No. 531517)
Was she wearing a brown shirt when she turned him in??? The damned principal needs a 5 day suspension for stupidity..even if it was a toy gun, 'flashed' across the screen, that boys home and computer do NOT in any way constitute a threat...these freaking bed wetting 'educators' are really beginning to tee me off...Homeschooling is the only answer.
I used to have a cap gun way back when, you took the cartridges out, took them apart, inserted a round cap and put it back together and fired it...LOTS of fun and it 'killed' a lot of Indians in it's day..wankers...just stupid wankers..
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 9/4/2020 3:20:13 PM (No. 531522)
Recently I came across a bunch of pictures of my sisters and brothers as well as a lot of kids from the old neighborhood. We had about 60 kids on our street and our house in the middle of the block was usually the gathering point. I decided to share the pictures on my Face Book page because I'm "FB friends" with most of those kids today who are scattered, literally, across the world.
Some of the pictures were of us preparing for The Fourth of July parades,(lots of flags and bunting on display) our picnics, plays, and one was of our front yard with dozens of bikes, complete with banana seats, sissy bars, and a bunch of kids just hanging out. What I failed to see was that two boys were holding toy guns, the same "cowboy guns" that all of us had at that time.
All of my neighborhood friends loved them and commented, about their own memories, a couple jokes about how much times have changed for kids in this country. Every comment was positive.
Face Book pulled the post and sentenced me to FB jail for violating their "violent" content rules. George Orwell was a true prophet.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
coyote 9/4/2020 3:33:34 PM (No. 531534)
When I was in high school (long time ago), I could walk into a hardware store and buy a .22 rifle, no problem. Murders were virtually non-existent where I lived.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LonestarM3 9/4/2020 3:52:03 PM (No. 531552)
Reply #6 is right. In the 1950s I once asked the HS principal to let me borrow his car during lunch to go home and get my shotgun and shells so I could go hunting with a teacher and several other students. I asked to leave in his trunk till after school.
He let me borrow his car and the only admonition was, "Don't forget to give me my keys back before you leave. I don't have a spare."
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Sandbar 9/4/2020 3:53:38 PM (No. 531553)
This boy is 12 years old. I remember my 12th birthday like yesterday. The night before we had overnight company so the young'n (me) slept on the couch. When i woke up the next morning, leaning against a chair next to the couch was a Stephens .410 bolt action. My birthday is in June. Squirrel season didn't start until Aug. 1st. Damn!!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/4/2020 3:53:46 PM (No. 531554)
Hey Leftist Pigs, I've got a 'toy gun', come and visit me!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 9/4/2020 3:56:09 PM (No. 531556)
The lad was at home, not in school. Is it now illegal to own a toy gun at home ?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
TJ54 9/4/2020 4:19:09 PM (No. 531565)
Sounds like the school district should be shut down for rank idiocy
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Hoosier 9/4/2020 4:30:52 PM (No. 531577)
#2 - You must have been a good kid. Waited until classes were over.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
fourpmfox 9/4/2020 4:43:05 PM (No. 531586)
When i was a kid in elementary school South Jersey, many of the boys brought their rifles to school since they would go out hunting after classes. Rifles were hung in the "cloak room " and often provided dinner for their families !!! Nobody ever gave it even a thought !!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
edgar 9/4/2020 4:58:09 PM (No. 531605)
It is the students home, not the school. Turn your camera off.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Right Time 9/4/2020 5:04:59 PM (No. 531613)
Call the cops because a 12-yo has a plainly fake toy gun that is visible in his home for a brief instant?
Suspend that student from school?
If I were the parent, it would be hard for me not to use a right cross on that principal. In a closed room, with no witnesses, of course.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 9/4/2020 5:11:27 PM (No. 531621)
Second Amendment minority report.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/4/2020 5:12:42 PM (No. 531623)
Even though no active firearm was involved, this is an egregious violation of Second Amendment protected freedoms. Sue the daylights out of them.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/4/2020 5:36:52 PM (No. 531651)
Poor judgment on the part of the principal. In seventh grade, we used to goof around with gadgets far more alarming than a plastic pistol purchased from walmart.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Cindiana 9/4/2020 5:48:14 PM (No. 531669)
This article should be a MUST READ, simply because of the fabulous stories related by so many readers.
Honestly, this chain made my day!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
dbdiva 9/4/2020 6:13:26 PM (No. 531690)
I had a cap gun during my tom boy years;
those transparent pastel water pistols were also popular. We took them to school and when the teacher's back was turned we'd shoot streams of water across the room.
Now we need to caution kids not to point their finger guns at others.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
XCenturion 9/4/2020 6:23:32 PM (No. 531695)
Keep in mind people these people are responsible for educating our children. They are mere morons, collecting a pay check while relegating their duties to parents and grandparents to teach Common Core crap at home! We need a Ronald Reagan moment where he fired all the air traffic controllers that went on strike in 1981. Fire the teachers that are refusing to return to the classroom!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
red1066 9/4/2020 8:18:01 PM (No. 531770)
My wife is a teacher, and this week was filled with computer meeting after computer meeting. The running of the bulls has nothing on the running of the mouths from what I heard this week on the speaker from her computer. If I heard the terms racial injustice and Covid-19 mentioned once, I heard it a thousand times. It got to the point I couldn't take it anymore and made my feelings known verbally a little louder than I was supposed to, when somebody on the other end asked if somebody wanted to speak. My wife quickly waved me away, and I left the house. Marxists have completely taken over our educational system with PC culture. No dissent is allowed.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/4/2020 10:38:58 PM (No. 531827)
Incredibly stupid. The teacher should have kept her mouth shut and the principal should be fired for incompetence.
About twenty five years ago, I gave a demonstration in Tae Kwon Do and self defense at a middle school at the invitation of the parents of one of my students and her teacher. I used a toy gun to show a few disarming techniques. This was before all of this anti-gun liberal madness began but it was mentioned later that the principal was not happy with having a toy gun at school but I was not contacted about it.
During my childhood, kids running around the neighborhood with cap guns, cowboy hats and bows and arrows with suction-cup tips was a common sight in every small town across the country. When did the mass hysteria take over?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/4/2020 10:50:13 PM (No. 531834)
What better way for the government teachers to snoop into the childrens' homes. I hope the parents pursue this with the school district.
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If anyone is on the fence regarding home schooling their children...you literally could not do worse than these idiots who have control of your kids all day!
Rescue those poor kids from the insane asylum!!!
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