A 7th grade student from Virginia Beach, VA was discovered to be playing in his yard with his friends using a $25 toy gun, given to him by his mother. Although the 7th grader, Khalid Caraballo, was off school grounds, he and one of the friends who was playing with the toy gun with him, are being suspended and threatened with expulsion for “possession, handling and use of a firearm.” The boys are accused of having used the airsoft pistol to shoot two of the other boys in their play.
Has the school over stepped its authority in punishing these students for activities taken place off school grounds?
In some cities, these boys could find themselves in legal trouble for this activity, as well as trouble from their school authorities. In one city I lived in, the regulations forbid discharging any device—whether air rifle, BB gun, or airsoft pistol, etc.—that propels a projectile via expansion of compressed air or spring within the city limits.
The parents of the children under suspension expressed their feelings that “common sense” wasn’t employed in punishing the children for something that didn’t happen on school property. Carabello’s mother stated that she thought the suspension, and potential expulsion her son faces is unnecessarily harsh for his use of the $25 air pistol she bought him. What do you think?
Sources: theblaze.com, wavy.com
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The kid was suspended until June for shooting his buddies while they were heading to the bus stop. No expulsion. He’s being transferred to one of those alternate middle school programs for naughty children.
The school’s response here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BU9hzLjCUAAVdbC.jpg:large
So the kid had a bad rep before; maybe the school was just itching for a chance to suspend him.
Still, can’t argue with the fact he was in his yard, not on school grounds or the bus stop.
The school district overstepped their authority. If the kid was shooting other kids and not on school property the police department should have hauled the kid in. It is clear that this kid has some problems BUT proper jurrisdictions need to be involved and instead BS was.
My great nephew is six. He has been shooting since he was three. He also has his own compound bow that he uses under adult supervision. Does this mean that some limp dick school employee can get him suspended because he is talking to his friend about his shooting of and SKS or some other firearm at the cabin……that school employee would be facing a circimscision about the neck first from me.
The school district overstepped their authority. If the kid was shooting other kids and not on school property the police department should have hauled the kid in. It is clear that this kid has some problems BUT proper jurrisdictions need to be involved and instead BS was.
My great nephew is six. He has been shooting since he was three. He also has his own compound bow that he uses under adult supervision. Does this mean that some limp dick school employee can get him suspended because he is talking to his friend about his shooting of and SKS or some other firearm at the cabin……that school employee would be facing a circimscision about the neck first from me.
Again I am not saying I agree with the laws, but at the HS I work at, the school will suspend students for incidents that happen on the way to or from school. We had a problem with kids being jumped on the way to the school bus. From what the dean’s tell me, according to state law, the students are under the the supervision of the school once they leave the house/apartment, and right up to they get home from school. So the state give the schools the ability to discipline in cases like this. Again, I am not agreeing just trying to give and insiders point of view.
Your deans are giving you a line of BS and exceeding their authority. Once on the bus students are under district supervision.
hartcreek we have a lot of students who walk to and from school as well. And yes they are under the district supervision who then reports the info to the dean’s, is what I am being told.
Well it’s what I said conform to political correctness or else. These people are crazy fanatics that will not tolerate anything except their own viewpoint. It is exactly what Rush said. These people cannot be negotiated with they simply must be defeated.
Muskrat It seemed bizarre (and unfair) to me too.
JoeFabeetz I found it mind boggling, to a degree.
triathlete98 I think it may also be a product of our time… Newton is still very fresh in the public’s memory.