The One Ring located in Kermit, Texas

[GrumpyBunny]

Did the kid walk around talking about his Precioussssss?

Then leave him alone!

On a serious note, the parents should move to an area with fewer stupid people. I’d donate to a kickstarter fund to get the kid into a private school run by educated people.

[MrAtoz]

@Tom_Tildrum

I know everyone’s going to get mad at me for suggesting it, but instead of suspending him, the school district could have just had the Eagles come and take the Ring away from him.

How many times do we have to go over this? The Eagles are ancient beings with their own minds and wills. You can’t just order them to go ferrying Rings around like some kind of feathered delivery service!

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@MrAtoz

How many times do we have to go over this? The Eagles are ancient beings with their own minds and wills. You can’t just order them to go ferrying Rings around like some kind of feathered delivery service!

Well, Henley is 67, and Frey is a year younger, but ancient? I 'unno…

[Drunky_Smurf]

@MrAtoz

How many times do we have to go over this? The Eagles are ancient beings with their own minds and wills. You can’t just order them to go ferrying Rings around like some kind of feathered delivery service!

Gandalf can.

[MrAtoz]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

Well, Henley is 67, and Frey is a year younger, but ancient? I 'unno…

Have you taken a good look at Joe Walsh lately?

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

^ Welllll, you DO have a point, there.

[Anon01245]

I thought that this thread was going to be about the one ring in Kermit the Frog.

[G0sp3l]

@MrAtoz

How many times do we have to go over this? The Eagles are ancient beings with their own minds and wills. You can’t just order them to go ferrying Rings around like some kind of feathered delivery service!

I thought the Eagles were supposed to take Frodo AND the Ring and drop them into the volcano at Mount Doom?

[astorian]

@The_Second_Stone

When I read this story 15 minutes ago, I used my google-fu powers (on Bing, nonetheless) and found the telephone number for the school. I immediately telephoned the school and asked for Principal Greer, who was unavailable as she was in the school cafeteria. I kid you not. I then asked the school secretary to convey to Principal Greer that those of us in California were really proud of her. I think that the good people of Texas have found their next governor.

We really ought to get a kickstarter campaign going so that this kid can find afford a private school that is operated by Texas non-natives.

The principal was probably busy fending off calls from wacky zany morning deejays and assorted wiseacres.

Steronz has it right- this COULD be just a case of a dumb teacher or a dumb school administrator overreacting, but it could ALSO be that there’s more to this story (perhaps this kid has gotten in trouble before) and some oversensitive parents went to the media instead of trying to handle things in house.

[Battle_Pope]

“Aiden, go to Principal Greer’s office”

“One does not simply walk into the administration block!”

[Freddy_the_Pig]

God help us when Aiden sees Harry Potter and starts bringing his wand to school.

[Colibri]

@Little_Nemo

I’m trying to figure out the first suspension. The one for “referring to a classmate as black”.

The term Mordorian-American is preferred.

[Mahaloth]

@steronz

Half the time with stories like these, the parents go to the media and completely misrepresent the actual reason for the disciplinary action. The other half of the time, the school is overreacting over something dumb and the parents are only slightly misrepresenting the actual reason for the disciplinary action. If we’ve learned nothing from the dozens of RO stories that have come before this, it’s to either withhold judgement until the other side comes out, or to ignore clickbait articles.

I have no idea if this case will be like this, but it is true that this frequently turns out to be the case.

[TBG]

@CGav8r

Why didn’t the teacher just challenge him to some riddles, with the ring as a prize? Surely a teacher knows better riddles than some 5th grader.

You must have had a much better 5th grade teacher than I did, to think this.

[Aquadementia]

@Freddy_the_Pig

God help us when Aiden sees Harry Potter and starts bringing his wand to school.

That Potter kid didn’t get along well with his teachers.

“You want give me a C? You know what C stands for? Centaur. Umbridge could tell you all about those.”

“Lockhart tried to give me a B. Ask him if he remembers how that turned out.”

“I got an A- from Quirrell once. Once.”

[Count_Blucher]

@G0sp3l

Having been to Texas, if there’s a place where orcs are goblins reign, it’s there.

The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge’s fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
With news that comes from Texas Stalls;
A shadow lies upon its tomb
Dumb as rock from grave to womb.
But still the sunken stars appear
On ugly helmets, half the year;
There lies its crown in silver paint,
Til its people wake from Evil’s Taint…

[Little_Nemo]

@Tom_Tildrum

I know everyone’s going to get mad at me for suggesting it, but instead of suspending him, the school district could have just had the Eagles come and take the Ring away from him.

Not possible. The school’s in Texas and the Eagles would never make it past the Cowboys on the road.

[rbroome]

@Bricker

As many of you know, Isildur’s Bane, AKA The One True Ring, the method by which Sauron planned to subjugate the wielders of the other Rings to his will, was thought to have been finally destroyed after falling, along with Gollum and part of Frodo’s finger, into the Crack of Doom, thereby ending Sauron’s mad quest for power.

However, all was not as it seems. Unbeknownst to the commentators of Middle Earth, the One True Ring survived that event and somehow ended up in the possession of Aiden Steward, a fourth grade student in Kermit, Texas. Aiden brought the Ring to school and advised a classmate that he could use the ring to make the classmate invisible. Alarmed at the prospect of a fourth grader wielding the kind of power that turned Smeagol into Gollum, school officials acted swiftly and decisively in the face of this evident threat.

I think I speak for all of us when I say, “Whew. That was close.”

The superintendent issued an official statement stating that all the teachers and administrators at the school are well-trained and acted in accordance with district policy. He did not detail (because he can’t-privacy issues) why making an impossible to perform promise deserved a suspension. The district will send the parent a letter detailing the reasoning.
FWIW, the kid got off on the wrong foot by bringing subversive literature to school-The Big Book of Knowledge. That got him his first suspension. He should have learned his lesson that time. Some people just take longer to break than others.

[Senegoid]

I saw this news on-line yesterday (Feb. 1), and mentioned it in “Even The Stupid Is Bigger In Texas” Pit thread.

ETA: I see this news item now has a Pit thread of its own too.

[Measure_for_Measure]

@steronz

Half the time with stories like these, the parents go to the media and completely misrepresent the actual reason for the disciplinary action. The other half of the time, the school is overreacting over something dumb and the parents are only slightly misrepresenting the actual reason for the disciplinary action. If we’ve learned nothing from the dozens of RO stories that have come before this, it’s to either withhold judgement until the other side comes out, or to ignore clickbait articles.

Well there’s been some clarification.

The kid practices magic and some of his classmates are persuaded that his powers are real. Methinks 4th graders are little old to be that gullible. I’m wondering whether a meltdown preceded this event.

Sounds like a teaching moment, and not for ring bearer.

Via Amazon preview, those of stout heart can view a pregnant woman as well as a fetal image machine in The Big Book of Knowledge. It’s on a page devoted to sound.