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Florida boy accused of assault with rubber band
posted by Matt on 10:44 PM February 23rd, 2005
Boys/Young Men Clancy writes "13-year-old suspended 10 days after confrontation with teacher.

I guess he didn't have a conceal/carry license. Yes, folks, rubber bands are deadly and they can hurt you really, really bad. Looks like hard time for this hoodlum. Alcatraz is reopening, I hear."

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Beware! Don't offend the aristocracy! (Score:1)
by Ragtime on 12:11 AM February 24th, 2005 EST (#1)
Gomez said when his science teacher demanded the rubber band, the student said he tossed it on her desk.

It's a God-damned rubber band, folks!

Rojas said she was shocked to learn that her son was being punished for a Level 4 offense -- the highest Level at the school. Other violations that also receive level 4 punishment include arson, assault and battery, bomb threats and explosives, according to the Code of Student Conduct.

I'm speechless.

Let this be a lesson to any boy who might do something or behave in a manner that is not suitably flattering or subservient to his feminist masters. This is a true totalitarian regime.

Seig Heil!

Ragtime

The Uppity Wallet

The opinions expressed above are my own, but you're welcome to adopt them.

Re:Beware! Don't offend the aristocracy! (Score:1)
by Ragtime on 12:25 AM February 24th, 2005 EST (#2)
Geez, I just can't get this out of my mind.

The spineless f**king ass clowns (male AND female) in these schools just make me want to deposit last night's steak on their shoes.

Do these pukes not have even the most rudimentary concepts of right and wrong? God f***ing forbid they should exercise, or be EXPECTED to exercise any decent humane judgement.

Just think of the irreversible HARM that's been done to this poor young lad because some simpering, one-celled, feminist pansy of an excuse for a teacher was possibly 'offended' or 'in fear' of a heinous rubber-band attack. God help us all.

What have we come to, people, when such insane horror shows can actually happen? How far have we fallen?

Land of the Free?
Home of the Brave?

Well, it was a glorious, beautiful dream while it lasted...

How do I get off this insane planet?

Ragtime.

The Uppity Wallet

The opinions expressed above are my own, but you're welcome to adopt them.

Re:Beware! Don't offend the aristocracy! (Score:1)
by Kyo on 01:02 AM February 24th, 2005 EST (#3)
"They said if he would have aimed it a little more and he would have gotten it closer to her face he would have hit her in the eye," mother Jenette Rojas said.

Burn him at the stake!
Justice is . . . Seen to be done ! (Score:1)
by Gang-banged on 01:49 AM February 24th, 2005 EST (#4)
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"A district spokesman said there is still a series of meetings the district will have before Gomez is officially expelled."

Typical . . . can anyone explain the point of the meetings - if the sentence is to be carried through regardless ?
No one is saying he shot it at her ...right?! (Score:1)
by LSBeene on 11:46 AM February 24th, 2005 EST (#5)
I was reading this and ... am I reading this right?

Is ANYONE saying he SHOT the rubber band at her?

He TOSSED it at her (or as he says "her desk") and is being suspended!?

If he had shot it AT her I could see him getting sent to the principle's office, but not suspended.

But, according to his story (*and kids do tend to minimize what they did - read: lie) he tossed it at her desk.

This is so beyond nuts.

Welcome to PCism and her hateful sister Aristocratic Feminism.

Steven
Guerrilla Gender Warfare is just Hate Speech in polite text
I could be out of line, here... (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 12:19 PM February 24th, 2005 EST (#6)
...but the boy is Hispanic.
I could be wrong but I am wondering if that has to do with any of this. You know those "hot-blooded" hispanic males, and how violent and dangerous they can be. (sarcasm) I say this because as an Indian I have been through similar circumstances.
On a job one time a Black co-worker and I got into an arguement with another man in the biulding. The Black and the other (white) man got into it pretty heated. I basicaly kept my mouth shut. The man complained to our supervisors. My Black co-worker was never reprimanded but I was suspended for two months without pay. This, despite the fact I only told the white man to be quiet and mind his own buisness. My co-worker had cussed him out and even made a threat of violence. But I WAS SUSPENDED!
Needles to say I quit that job soon after.
I later met another co-worker from that job, and asked if they knew why I had been suspended. My ex co-worker said that management was afraid I'd "go on the war path".(?????!!!!????)
So in other words since we Indians are so savage and war-like they thought it best to suspend me.

Anyway, I do have to wonder if this boy is under similar circumstances. It happens more often than one might think. The media just never reports it.
Just my two cents...,

  Thundercloud.
  "Hoka hey!"
Re:I could be out of line, here... (Score:1)
by Bert on 01:39 PM February 24th, 2005 EST (#7)
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So in other words since we Indians are so savage and war-like they thought it best to suspend me.

Thundercloud,

About 20 years ago I met some native people (men, women and children) from the US and Canada. As a white male I can assure you that never before and never after I have met people more polite, gentle and peaceful than your people. What impressed me most was the loving and caring way they treated their children.

People like that feminist teacher can learn a lot from your people.

Bert
-------------------- From now on, men's rights first.
Re:I could be out of line, here... (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 11:01 AM February 25th, 2005 EST (#8)
Bert-
Thank you very much.
we try.

  Thundercloud.
  "Hoka hey!"
Conflict in testimony (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 02:41 PM February 26th, 2005 EST (#9)
Well, all the following is just my opinion on all this, but this story seems to me to be just one more example of the mindless zero tolerance garbage that plagues our femi-ninny educational system today.

The boy is saying he tossed it at the teacher's desk, and the teacher is saying he aimed it (implying) he put it over his finger and let zing. It sounds like the teacher asked for it and he may have returned it to her in a somewhat flipant manner.

As a little boy I never was able to master one of those cool, one-handed rubber band fires like some of my chums could do. It always took two hands, but the rubber band always went were I aimed it - at some other little boy - usually. I recall most of rubbedr band shots being let go after some other little boy fired one at me, and usually at recess. I have a hard time remembering exact details on something that insignificant, but I still remember how to shoot a rubber band (horror of horrors). I probably nailed myself more times when the rubber band slipped off my finger than I did other little boys, at least until I got proficient at it. Hey, little boys are developing their motor skills.

Little boys played this way when I was a kid and it was okay. No one was ever disciplined. No one was ever hurt, and this behavior never led to any behavioral problems later in life that I ever knew of.

If the boy aimed it at the teachers desk it sounds like he was being a little rebelious to authority, which wasn't treated nearly so harshly when I went to school. Minor discipline is appropriate for that. It's kind of insulting to imply the boys aim was anything but what it was. There was a time in America when marksmanship was highly valued.

If I had a nickel for every time I've been hit by a rubber band I could go out and buy a lot of heavy clothes to protect me from all those raving rubber band lunatics roving our streets and destroying society.

More physical outlets are needed for boys in our schools not less. This story reflects the absolutely intolerably boring conditions boys must put up with in our femi-ninny run public schools.

Lastly, I remember my Dad telling a story over and over again as I was growing up about his younger brother, when they were little boys going to a one room school house. Whoever wound up with "the ball" after recess had to return it to the teacher. My Uncle wound up with it one time, stood at the school house door, shouted, "Here's the ball," threw the ball, hit the teacher on her nose, knocked her glasses off, got paddled, and wound up growing up to be one of the finest most honorable men I ever knew (not a violent or mean bone in his or my Dad's body).

The oppresive way we are raising boys today is pure crap.

If a boy is a discipline problem, and has repeated offences, then more serious intervention is needed, but often this type of femi-ninny zero tolerance school discipline is happening on a first offence and terrorizing innocent boys who don't need this kind of garbage interferring with their efforts to get ahead in life.

Some one should really start jailing gender feminists for all the hateful acts they are commiting against innocent males for nothing more than having been born male, and commiting the crime of "unforgiveable maleness." They are really doing some serious, violent harm, unlike shooting a rubber band.

Sincerely, Ray


I just sent a letter to the editor (Score:1)
by mbr (spamproofed address: mbr at arlsoft dot com) on 07:14 PM February 26th, 2005 EST (#10)
We can have more of an impact by writing to the paper than by just talking among ourselves. I just sent a letter to the editor of Florida Today. You can do the same by emailing letters@flatoday.net and lettercopy@flatoday.net. Here's what I wrote:
One mark of a high quality school administration is the ability to make sensible rules and impose punishments appropriate to the offense. Incompetent administrations, on the other hand, take disproportionately tough stands against minor offenses to prove to the public how tough they are.

The idea that throwing a rubber band constitutes the same level of offense as arson or a bomb threat is an absolute outrage!

Back when computers were programmed with punch cards, the computer center at my school had a seemingly infinite supply of rubber bands for holding the decks together and a frustratingly slow turnaround time. The results were predictable. While waiting for our deck to be run, we perfected our rubber-band shooting technique.

At a very conservative estimate, the number of rubber bands we shot during four years in college works out to over a quarter million. In all that time, not a single soul suffered any injury whatsoever.

Rather than suspending a student for throwing a rubberband on the absurd pretext that the teacher could have suffered an eye injury, Orange County ought to be seriously investigating dismissing those school officials so drunk with power that they've lost all common sense!


Mark Rosenthal
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