Educational lunacy
This is Jimi--my first cousin twice removed, adopted by his grandmother in Virginia.
He is a criminal. He took a swiss-army knife to school to show the children. No history of violence or aggression. The school took a few days to decide on his punishment, and he went from advanced classes---to suspension for 365 days.
No doubt this school district has classes for unwed 14-year-old mothers, and if it follows a lot of schools' curriculum, American history is a politically correct toxic soup of how we have oppressed people instead of how we have become such a fine nation.
When I was growing up in Culo de Pecos, all the boys carried knives; to be fair the coaches would a couple of times a year shake down some of them from a culture which used them for knife fights, but that action, which would today be considered horribly racist, was based on the fact that they did indeed pull them on each other. And only on each other.
The boys with pickups often had a headache rack with guns in the back.
Girls didn't get pregnant.
The worst crime was chewing gum in class. The next worse was holding hands in the hall. Boys and girls I mean.
We left our doors open during vacation.
We left money on the kitchen counter for the milkman to take after he put the day's milk in our fridge while we were at work.
I know, a Leave It to Beaver childhood. And none the worse for it.
UPDATE: this arch criminal, to be played in a movie by Jack Nicholson, also pointed a carrot at someone and said, "Bang!" although the bang point is my extrapolation of his criminality. For that he got in-school suspension. All power to the Virginia educationists for taking rapid action to curtail incipient serial killers.
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Anybody remember "Mumblypeg" ? Used to play that with my Cub Scout knife with the other kids in the 5th grade during recess. Times sure do change.
An entire year? Lunacy is the only way to describe that. I have always been optimistic that the next generation would be important in saving America, but how can we expect anything when this is what they are taught? And there's no recourse, none.
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