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OK, wow. This is right up there with banning Harry Potter because of witchcraft. I may not have done exactly this, but I did a wide variety of just-as-silly things when I was in 4th grade and never wound up hurting anyone. I wasn’t suspended either.
Ah! So a troublemaker, right? This was just the latest in a long string of disruptive activities from a problem kid and the teachers and principal were just exasperated, right? Tell me that’s it, right?
Hm. I am underwhelmed by this child’s trouble-making ability.
It’s hard to imagine a scenario where the school is in the right here. So fuck them, as tradition demands at least one swear in the Pit.
On the other hand, the school seems to be prevented by policy from telling its side of the story - so this could be a completely made-up thing and it’s possible the NY Daily News didn’t talk to any of the classmates to verify the story.
I heard this on the radio and was astonished. The kid was suspended from school for bringing a children’s encyclopedia that had a picture of a pregnant woman?
Unless there’s a lot more to this, the school administrators are batshit insane.
I assure you, good sir, that goat was of age in the jurisdiction in which I was found with her, and none of those implements were banned until the following spring!
“You nasty thing from beyond the dead: no matter what you think or do, good things will never come to you. And if evil is your black design, you can bet the goodness of the light ones will kick your bad behind.”
It’s for the best, really. Oh, sure, at first carrying the One Ring is all fun and merry japes, but soon enough it’s talking to oneself in the third person and chomping people’s fingers off… Kids, just say NO to Rings of Power.