Teacher Bans Pencils from Class, Cited Potential ‘Weapon Making’

• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-11-30 20:12

  Matt Ryan
  Infowars.com
  November 30, 2010
  
  In another example of children being considered potential terrorists, a Massachusetts teacher sent home a note to each parent of her sixth-grade class banning all pencils and pens from school including the student’s person, backpack, and on the bus citing that they could be used in “weapon making”.
  
  The letter read:
  
  students would no longer be allowed to bring writing implements to school. It said pencils would be provided for students in class and any students caught with pencils or pens after Nov. 15 would face disciplinary action for having materials “to build weapons.”
  
  After receiving several calls from the media, the school district quickly retracted the ban, stating that the teacher sent the notice on their own authority without prior approval of the school board.
  
  This isn’t the first case of a teacher or school taking a drastic stance against minor and otherwise harmless items at school. A school in Rhode Island banned one student from wearing a hat that featured an American flag and plastic toy soldiers made in honor of soldiers. The 8-year-old boy made the hat as part of an assignment when they were to meet their pen-pals. He decided it would be a good idea to decorate it to be patriotic. The school disagreed.
  
  A 7-year-old was expelled for over a year after a teacher found a toy gun in his backpack. The toy never left his bag, and wasn’t used in any threatening manor. The school board determined that the young boy should have to risk repeating the second grade as a just punishment for bringing a toy with him to school.
  
  If that wasn’t crazy enough, a student was nearly expelled over a 2-inch Lego gun made for a policeman figure. The Staten Island student was playing with Legos during his lunch period when a teacher spotted a tiny toy gun no bigger than a quarter. This landed him in big trouble resulting in threatened suspension and even expulsion.
  
  Are teachers, principals, and school board members taking their zero-tolerance policies just a little too far? While there is no denying that bringing a live firearm on school property should be strictly forbidden, instilling fear of retaliation by public employees for even possessing a toy leaves a lasting and potentially harmful mark on a child’s psyche. This is an early conditioning that teaches students to fear their own actions, and with notes like the one above banning writing utensils, to possibly submit to restrictions on creativity and expression. Keeping a journal or writing about your experiences was also banned in Orwellian 1984.
  
  Note from Alex Jones: This is a form of mind control to teach children that the image of a gun in a slave’s hand is evil, while the same weapon in the hands of a swat team is good.

  
  
  Link to article: Teacher Bans Pencils from Class, Cited Potential ?Weapon Making?
  
  It's come to the point where nothing surprises me anymore...
• Piko wrote on 2010-11-30 20:19
  I've been not surprised by anything that happens in the world anymore for the most part. Seriously, do you not even trust the future generation enough to hold a pencil? Teacher's a paranoid douche who probably thinks "Videogames" are brainwashing kids into becoming terrorists or murderers. Well ya know, when I was a kid and watched Godzilla, I wanted to be just like Godzilla, but that ain't happening.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-11-30 20:30
  *facepalm*
• Drifter wrote on 2010-11-30 20:32
  -.- The sad part is that the newer generations aren't screwing themselves over, it's the older generations that are doing this...
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-11-30 20:34
  Ok, I'll go murder people with my pencil.
  
  
  
  Does that include stylus like soft touch capacitive stylus, like the following?
  [video=youtube;smBOaEP3ut8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smBOaEP3ut8[/video]
  
  
  Nevermind the last thing I said about the pencil, I'll go murder people with my carbon fiber tube and conductive foam iPhone stylus.
• Kenny? wrote on 2010-11-30 20:38
  What even... just. what?
• Akemii wrote on 2010-11-30 20:43
  No offense but some Americans are stupid. o -o
• psyal wrote on 2010-11-30 20:46
  Wonder if they'll ever ban people in general from school, seeing as a person's body can be a lethal weapon.
  
  I'd say to leave these teachers to teach online classes, then they'd never have to worry about a weapon threat.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-11-30 20:52

  Quote from psyal;233402:

  Wonder if they'll ever ban people in general from school, seeing as a person's body can be a lethal weapon.
  
  I'd say to leave these teachers to teach online classes, then they'd never have to worry about a weapon threat.

  
  
  No no no. They will have rules that require surgical removal of all limbs.
• Kansi wrote on 2010-11-30 21:55
  Right... so now whoever has a brain and can use it is now a reasonable threat to everyone.
• Tatsu wrote on 2010-11-30 22:03
  Pencils are actually pretty decent weapons. Not something you'd bring to a fight, but easily capable of killing someone you don't like if you don't mean to!
  
  Then again, that applies with EVERYTHING. So does that mean children aren't allowed to go to school wearing clothes because they're potential weapons?
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-11-30 22:09

  Quote from ScoutNinja;233461:

  Right... so now whoever has a brain and can use it is now a reasonable threat to everyone.

  
  
  That's right, we had better give up all rights to free thought to big brother so we don't hurt ourselves with it! If we become vegetables and let the government think for us, then we will all be a lot safer.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-11-30 22:13

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;233473:

  That's right, we had better give up all rights to free thought to big brother so we don't hurt ourselves with it! If we become vegetables and let the government think for us, then we will all be a lot safer.

  
  
  Then there'll be a rebel force, and it'll be a box office hit.
• Kansi wrote on 2010-11-30 22:20
  That's right, make us all robots or wrap us all in straitjackets to learn, can't trust us with each other or anything. Knowledge is power, and obviously power is dangerous. There goes being unique.
• Magenera wrote on 2010-11-30 22:31
  The stupid meter hasn't broke yet? I mean seriously, those pencils are gonna be gone by next week of that date. No teacher ever trust students to return their pencils and pens back. Now no one will get work done now, because no one has pencils.