Teacher confiscates students phone for pic of Airsoft gun

[Smokepole]

Another example of ridiculous teacher and school system irrational fear of guns. Link: Actor Joseph C. Phillips: Teacher Threatened My Son, Questioned His Mental State Over Photo Of BB Gun - Tony Katz - Page 1

I am growing tired of the irrational morons that have so permeated society. This teacher needs a trip to the woodshed. And so does the wimp of a Principle.

 

[Audie Murphy]

This nanny state mentality has to stop, now kids getting in trouble for pictures of airsoft stuff. Ridiculous.

 

[HoughMade]

I am glad people are waking up to the idiocy. Zero tolerance means zero thought.

Where my kids go to school, they have air-gun range set up out back and a selection of air pistols and rifles for marksmanship and safe handling practice. There are even field trips so that the kids can shoot genuine firearms.

....you don't have to ask....of course my kids are home schooled.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I've always said that zero tolerance policies in public schools were truthfully zero intelligence policies, because it allows the administration to do their jobs without once having to use their brains. All they have to do is parrot the school board's policy and stick to it religiously and they can skate through their educational careers, never once having to make a decision, leaving a raft of ruined childhoods in their wake.

You know what the only possible conclusion of all of this rampant hoplophobia is, right. No more history lessons, because history is full of wars and violent struggles, all of which relied on guns. No more art class, because so much art is based on events which took place during wartime. No more shop class, because those violent power tools could be used to manufacture firearms. All because the school board has (eventually) decided we shouldn't even acknowledge firearms exist.

 

[Jack Burton]

There is a project that is going to be the first thing I fund after I win the lottery for a couple of hundred million.

Working with the SAF or NRA I am going to have a "school book dust cover" designed for high school students to use. It's going to be heavily graphiced with images of the Founding Fathers and their firearms, and are going to have quotes from them about the importance of an armed citizenry.

With a couple of hundred thousand printed up and in the hand of students everywhere it is going to make the PTB head's explode. What teacher or principal is going to face down the public embarrassment of actually attempting to ban the words of Washington, Jefferson, et al from the school?

 

[Sfrandolph]

The teacher was afraid of the phone discharging by accident.....

 

[-Rogue-]

I will actually side on the part of the teacher to an extent, assuming it was an airsoft gun without the required blaze orange tip, etc. As I am an avid airsofter, only rarely could a non gun person tell the difference.

Given my kids in the classroom (I hope none of them are dumb enough to go about flashing gun pictures, real or Airsoft), I would hope that the teacher would ask about the photos from my or another student. It gives the teacher a change to... wait for it... educate someone!

Assuming a tactful and open discussion, a teacher can either teach the student the sensitivity of firearms in the school, talk about firearms safety rules, or in the event the student is slightly "off" warn the administration of possible dangers.

That said, threatening a student with police action over a simple picture without ample questioning is so typically... Californian.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I will actually side on the part of the teacher to an extent, assuming it was an airsoft gun without the required blaze orange tip, etc. As I am an avid airsofter, only rarely could a non gun person tell the difference.

Given my kids in the classroom (I hope none of them are dumb enough to go about flashing gun pictures, real or Airsoft), I would hope that the teacher would ask about the photos from my or another student. It gives the teacher a change to... wait for it... educate someone!

Assuming a tactful and open discussion, a teacher can either teach the student the sensitivity of firearms in the school, talk about firearms safety rules, or in the event the student is slightly "off" warn the administration of possible dangers.

That said, threatening a student with police action over a simple picture without ample questioning is so typically... Californian.

That is just absurd.

 

[88GT]

I am growing tired of the irrational morons that have so permeated society.

You know what contributes to that, don't you?

This nanny state mentality has to stop,

You know how to fix that, don't you?

 

[ZombieApocolypse]

The teacher was afraid of the phone discharging by accident.....

If Glock made it, it could have blown up!

 

[actaeon277]

It is a PICTURE!!!!!!!
NOT a gun.

 

[MikeDVB]

Good thing it was confiscated, all of those errant radio waves were shooting out cancer bullets.

 

[dragun762]

I too learned to target shoot in middle school. they had an airgun range at the school. what about the jrotc programs that they had in high school ? I used to be on the drill team and they used real rifles with the barrel welded closed. i guess it goes to say sheeple scare easily.

 

[griffin]

It is a PICTURE!!!!!!!
NOT a gun.

So what? This kid got suspended for eating a Pop-Tart in a way that made it "look like a gun."

Student suspended for shaping Pop-Tart into gun - www.ktnv.com

 

[actaeon277]

So what? This kid got suspended for eating a Pop-Tart in a way that made it "look like a gun."

Student suspended for shaping Pop-Tart into gun - www.ktnv.com

I know.
I'm just disgusted.

 

[griffin]

Horsewhipping should be legal.

 

[Valvestate]

The teacher was afraid of the phone discharging by accident.....

Man my phone discharges on its own all the time. I have to carry a charger everywhere I go.

 

[jwh20]

It is a PICTURE!!!!!!!
NOT a gun.

I've said it before, and the socialists in Calif are leading the charge. George Orwell had it right in "1984" but he just had the date wrong.

This is "thought crime"? It's here, now.

If you have a picture of a firearm, you are clearly thinking about a firearm. And we KNOW that firearms have NO VALID PURPOSE except to MURDER.

Therefore you are clearly a murderer! REPENT!

 

[Caleb]

Stupid education system is punishing innocent children...don't they got better things to do like take care of all the bully problems?

 

[MikeDVB]

Stupid education system is punishing innocent children...don't they got better things to do like take care of all the bully problems?

Isn't that what the picture of the airsoft gun was for?