This is what happens when the brain dead are in control - Teacher Suspended on 'Weapons' Charge -- For Showing Students Garden Tools!

A kid's first knife is a rite of passage. When our oldest got his first pocketknife it was a big deal for both him and my husband.

Take away those rituals because of fear and you get a generation of pussies who truly believe that carrying around an invaluable tool is somehow backward and wrong.

If i think back to the last ten people I saw or knew that were wearing camo, 9 are nuts/extreme/need to be investigated. Some that I've known for a long time ARE nuts and continually spout anti anything and talk about living off the land yet have no jobs to acquire the necessary goods to start. 2 (meth heads) live in 10-15ft trailers on grandparents/parents property and contribute nothing to society except uneasiness.
These 2 plus one (heroine junkie) other I know that lives in his grandmother's basement are on some kind of pharmaceuticals too. One that shows up at a local pub a couple of times at the end and beginning of each month looks like he lives out of his car. He sits alone and sucks 3 beers done in a half an hour then periodically gives out an war hoop at random customers for a few hours while nursing a half dozen whiskey cokes. All this while he's on what looks to be a 1990's style walkie talkie box phone. My own 61 year old brother has camo pajama bottoms that he wears all the time and rarely goes out because he can't handle people and hasn't had a job since the 90's. He is becoming crazier and refuses to go see a doctor and now has recently became homeless after not paying his mortgage for 8 yrs. It's pretty sad being as nobody including his own mother or kids will take him in being as he just can no longer be trusted. Camo pants wearing knuckleheads are the worst and most likely are the most medicated (or should be), the angriest, homeless AND spout a continual barrage of anti anything. The one person I know that likes wearing a camo hat n shirt on weekends is an avid hunter and has held down a good Boeing job for over 20 yrs. He actually has a life with wife and kids. So yeah...most camo wearing morAns should have an eye kept on them and more than likely if they're stopped and searched, police will find either meth, heroine, perscriptions that don't belong to them, warrants for those drugs or domestic violence offenses as well as any number of other minor traffic offenses. I've had this discussion with many people over the years AND most always, the camo wearing guys DO have some kind of problem/s. So...unless you're fresh out of the military or hunt for a living, leave your camo clothes at home for working in the yard. People don't trust you.

There...I been waiting to use my camo rant.

in 86 i had to change my shirt cuz it said

'van halen kicks ass' on the back

so the shirt thing in school isnt new

it always kills me .......oh no weapons in schools

ok everyone got thier 6 inch long deadly #2 pencils sharpened

lol....but no toenail clippers.....they can really do some damage

why dont they just make everyone use chalkboards like in the old days

ever try stabbing someone with a piece of chalk?

Maybe it's a country boy thing.

The article left the reason for the suspension, the pocket knife, out of the article so it would seem unreasonable. Pocket knives aren't allowed in Chicago schools. Yes it is ridiculous he was suspended and yes they went too far but everyone is getting worked up about 'garden tools' when that was not why he was suspended. This has already been copied to other forums without mentioning the knife. Get the facts before you post (I know that isn't liked around here).

The lesbians started this. They are all gov institutions shoving their pc dildos down everyone's throats.

Don't you worry. I'm sure there's a taxpayer-funded government study in the works that will support your theory.

The lesbians started this. They are all gov institutions shoving their pc dildos down everyone's throats.

If i think back to the last ten people I saw or knew that were wearing camo, 9 are nuts/extreme/need to be investigated. Some that I've known for a long time ARE nuts and continually spout anti anything and talk about living off the land yet have no jobs to acquire the necessary goods to start. 2 (meth heads) live in 10-15ft trailers on grandparents/parents property and contribute nothing to society except uneasiness.
These 2 plus one (heroine junkie) other I know that lives in his grandmother's basement are on some kind of pharmaceuticals too. One that shows up at a local pub a couple of times at the end and beginning of each month looks like he lives out of his car. He sits alone and sucks 3 beers done in a half an hour then periodically gives out an war hoop at random customers for a few hours while nursing a half dozen whiskey cokes. All this while he's on what looks to be a 1990's style walkie talkie box phone. My own 61 year old brother has camo pajama bottoms that he wears all the time and rarely goes out because he can't handle people and hasn't had a job since the 90's. He is becoming crazier and refuses to go see a doctor and now has recently became homeless after not paying his mortgage for 8 yrs. It's pretty sad being as nobody including his own mother or kids will take him in being as he just can no longer be trusted. Camo pants wearing knuckleheads are the worst and most likely are the most medicated (or should be), the angriest, homeless AND spout a continual barrage of anti anything. The one person I know that likes wearing a camo hat n shirt on weekends is an avid hunter and has held down a good Boeing job for over 20 yrs. He actually has a life with wife and kids. So yeah...most camo wearing morAns should have an eye kept on them and more than likely if they're stopped and searched, police will find either meth, heroine, perscriptions that don't belong to them, warrants for those drugs or domestic violence offenses as well as any number of other minor traffic offenses. I've had this discussion with many people over the years AND most always, the camo wearing guys DO have some kind of problem/s. So...unless you're fresh out of the military or hunt for a living, leave your camo clothes at home for working in the yard. People don't trust you.

There...I been waiting to use my camo rant.

Around here, you get looked at if you don't wear camo..
Country boys.

Yup...feminazis as well as their eunuchs.

It was actually for bringing a pocket knife, not gardening tools. It is so nice of the OPs article to leave that part out.

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"School officials say the dress code does ban such shirts because they can disrupt the educational process."

The "educational process" they apply is all about the cessation of thought. Of course any t-shirt with a message would "disrupt" that.

It was actually for bringing a pocket knife, not gardening tools. It is so nice of the OPs article to leave that part out.

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What type of comment is this?

Why is there a link? Because the whole article can't be posted.

We carry pocket knives around all the time as tools here on the farm and in the cars. This is an essential tool to have unless you want to use your teeth... which aren't that effective with twine, twigs, in gardening, opening up packages, etc.

I truly cannot believe how far this nation has sunk to accomendate the brain dead egocentric so-called leaders in various public institutions! How does anyone expect the next generation to learn anything with this kind of crap going on. This happened in Chicago but equally disturbing reports come out of Florida, California and elsewhere. With this crap going on the US will develop a new catagory for stupid, uneducated, no fucking common sense idiots. And for those of us who are older this is fricking scary because these are the types of people who will end up in responsible jobs when it comes to caring for the sick or disabled because no one of intelligence will be left to do a decent job.

Teacher Sues School over Suspension for 'Weapons' Charge: Showing Students Garden Tools
[link to cnsnews.com]

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit against a Chicago public school district on behalf of a second-grade teacher who was suspended after he displayed garden-variety tools such as wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers in his classroom as part of a "tool discussion" in his class.

Despite the fact that all potentially hazardous items were kept out of the students' reach, school officials at Washington Irving Elementary School informed Doug Bartlett, a 17-year veteran in the classroom, that his use of the tools as visual aids endangered his students. Bartlett was subsequently penalized with a four-day suspension without pay - charged with possessing, carrying, storing or using a weapon.

"This school district's gross overreaction to a simple teaching demonstration on basic tools such as wrenches and pliers underscores exactly what is wrong with our nation's schools," said Rutherford Institute Pres. John Whitehead.

Cool...until then maybe you can post a phone number and I'll have my brother contact you for a possible place to live. He says he's going to some lake and live in his 1988 Astro van. Maybe I can get him in here to post as the van down by the lake guy. He refuses to work or help with anything, but being as GLPeers are such givers, I'm sure that won't matter. Maybe you can wear some matching camo together too.

Theory...yeah right. These are real life experiences and not some fanciful GLPeer telling a story.

Pliers, screwdrivers and the humble wrench are gateway tools to things like circular saws blowtorches and the dreaded sledgehammer.

PROTECT THE CHILDREN!