Schoolteacher Responds to 'Schools' Sinister War on Guns'
Jun 7, 2013 18:23:10 #
June 7, 2013 American Thinker
Schoolteacher Responds to 'Schools' Sinister War on Guns'
Selwyn Duke
A high-school teacher sent me the correspondence below in response to my piece, " Comments." It provides some valuable feedback from the front lines, so I urge you to read it. Anonymous Teacher wrote (edited for style):
I am a high school teacher who teaches at a school with its share of gang and other urban problems. The irony is seeing how the l*****ts respond when their hatred of guns conflicts with another one of their sacred cows: protecting teenagers from the legal consequences of their actions. So if an administrator finds a student in possession of a gun during a search and feels confident he can get away with it, [he] will quietly dispose of the gun. The student is neither suspended nor reported to the police so he can be arrested. If a school employee claims to have seen the gun, the administrator says it was just a toy gun.
The reasoning is twofold: the administration does not want the bad publicity when a gun-on-campus story hits the news, and they want to protect the student from the consequences of being arrested for a weapons charge. That would result in an expulsion and would stay on the student's record forever and likely prevent him from being accepted into a college. Out of safety concerns, many colleges will not admit students who have been suspended or expelled from a school for bringing a weapon onto school grounds. Finally, the student might end up in the juvenile justice system where he will be unjustly treated for something that was not his fault because he did not understand the consequences of his actions.
Now, if the student brings a toy gun to school, especially one that looks like a real gun, he is treated as if he brought a real gun to school. The student even gets a visit from a police officer for a lecture on the consequences that could result if the toy gun was mistaken for a real gun by a law enforcement officer or if it had actually been a real gun. By the way, we have a zero-tolerance policy for guns, unless of course it is a real gun and had only been carried in a concealed fashion and kept hidden from all but two or three. We do not want to alarm the parents and make them think the school may be a more dangerous place than they believe it to be.
I would like to add something to this. This teacher works in an urban school with gang problems; thus, the student body is likely majority-minority, which means that political correctness and group patriotism will come into play. Minority teachers will be reluctant to "finger" a minority student for the authorities, which are very often viewed in these communities as the enemy and part of a white power structure. And white teachers may not want to open the can of worms of reporting a minority child to the police, with white guilt or even the fear of being called "r****t" being the impediment. Also remember that in recent times there have been efforts -- on the part of certain localities and the Obama administration -- to apply quotas to punishment and balance out the suspension and expulsion rates between white and minority students.
And, of course, there is the overarching politically correct notion that minority students deserve a special dispensation from rules and responsibilities due to "past injustices." White-privilege theory is everywhere.
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Schoolteacher Responds to 'Schools' Sinister War on Guns'
Selwyn Duke
A high-school teacher sent me the correspondence below in response to my piece, " Comments." It provides some valuable feedback from the front lines, so I urge you to read it. Anonymous Teacher wrote (edited for style):
I am a high school teacher who teaches at a school with its share of gang and other urban problems. The irony is seeing how the l*****ts respond when their hatred of guns conflicts with another one of their sacred cows: protecting teenagers from the legal consequences of their actions. So if an administrator finds a student in possession of a gun during a search and feels confident he can get away with it, [he] will quietly dispose of the gun. The student is neither suspended nor reported to the police so he can be arrested. If a school employee claims to have seen the gun, the administrator says it was just a toy gun.
The reasoning is twofold: the administration does not want the bad publicity when a gun-on-campus story hits the news, and they want to protect the student from the consequences of being arrested for a weapons charge. That would result in an expulsion and would stay on the student's record forever and likely prevent him from being accepted into a college. Out of safety concerns, many colleges will not admit students who have been suspended or expelled from a school for bringing a weapon onto school grounds. Finally, the student might end up in the juvenile justice system where he will be unjustly treated for something that was not his fault because he did not understand the consequences of his actions.
Now, if the student brings a toy gun to school, especially one that looks like a real gun, he is treated as if he brought a real gun to school. The student even gets a visit from a police officer for a lecture on the consequences that could result if the toy gun was mistaken for a real gun by a law enforcement officer or if it had actually been a real gun. By the way, we have a zero-tolerance policy for guns, unless of course it is a real gun and had only been carried in a concealed fashion and kept hidden from all but two or three. We do not want to alarm the parents and make them think the school may be a more dangerous place than they believe it to be.
I would like to add something to this. This teacher works in an urban school with gang problems; thus, the student body is likely majority-minority, which means that political correctness and group patriotism will come into play. Minority teachers will be reluctant to "finger" a minority student for the authorities, which are very often viewed in these communities as the enemy and part of a white power structure. And white teachers may not want to open the can of worms of reporting a minority child to the police, with white guilt or even the fear of being called "r****t" being the impediment. Also remember that in recent times there have been efforts -- on the part of certain localities and the Obama administration -- to apply quotas to punishment and balance out the suspension and expulsion rates between white and minority students.
And, of course, there is the overarching politically correct notion that minority students deserve a special dispensation from rules and responsibilities due to "past injustices." White-privilege theory is everywhere.
Contact Selwyn Duke, follow him on Twitter or log on to SelwynDuke.com
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/schoolteacher_responds_to_schools_sinister_war_on_guns.html#ixzz2VZVeMyIN
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Jun 7, 2013 23:10:45 #
Yankee Clipper wrote:
June 7, 2013 American Thinker
Schoolteacher Responds to 'Schools' Sinister War on Guns'
Selwyn Duke
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/schoolteacher_responds_to_schools_sinister_war_on_guns.html#ixzz2VZVeMyIN
Schoolteacher Responds to 'Schools' Sinister War on Guns'
Selwyn Duke
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/schoolteacher_responds_to_schools_sinister_war_on_guns.html#ixzz2VZVeMyIN
Exactly what is wrong with this country today, Reverse r****m flooding this country as a major part of the obozo's class warfare plan to destroy this country from within.
Jun 8, 2013 01:39:23 #
Escalating in arms, having violence as the basis of our response to the element of threat, is a serious mental disorder. This is the way of the world since Civilization began. Continuing to do so perpetuates war and misery. Daring to find another way to respond, through pacifism, is our only hope.
Jun 8, 2013 10:08:14 #
rumitoid wrote:
Escalating in arms, having violence as the basis of our response to the element of threat, is a serious mental disorder. This is the way of the world since Civilization began. Continuing to do so perpetuates war and misery. Daring to find another way to respond, through pacifism, is our only hope.
So tell us please just how these pacifist ways are working so well in Chicago where they have the strictest gun laws in this country and yet have the highest gun violence, murders and most of them children.
Once again you have succeeded in convicting me and most likely a lot of others that you are in fact not the brightest bulb on the tree, that your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor. You sir are definitely one of c*******ms useful i***ts!
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under
the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without
knowing how it happened."
Norman Thomas (1884-1968)
Defining liberal (AKA) useful i***t
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Jun 9, 2013 03:44:12 #
Why insult, even if what I propose is absurd? What's the point of being offensive?
Rush calling a woman a "s**t." Beck claiming Obama a r****t: he "h**es white people." Issa stating that Obama is the most corrupt president ever; he is practicing "gangster politics." What does this help?
You disagree with me, fine, but rather than relate your point, you insult. Fine. Its America. You're free to answer as you please. But you don't look very good doing it.
Rush calling a woman a "s**t." Beck claiming Obama a r****t: he "h**es white people." Issa stating that Obama is the most corrupt president ever; he is practicing "gangster politics." What does this help?
You disagree with me, fine, but rather than relate your point, you insult. Fine. Its America. You're free to answer as you please. But you don't look very good doing it.
Jun 9, 2013 05:35:50 #
rumitoid wrote:
Escalating in arms, having violence as the basis of our response to the element of threat, is a serious mental disorder. This is the way of the world since Civilization began. Continuing to do so perpetuates war and misery. Daring to find another way to respond, through pacifism, is our only hope.
When MS13 shows up in your neighborhood, you are welcome to go out and attempt to pacify them. Let us know what hospital and your room number for the get well cards.
Jun 9, 2013 08:02:58 #
hprinze
Loc: Central Florida
rumitoid wrote:
Why insult, even if what I propose is absurd? What's the point of being offensive?
Rush calling a woman a "s**t." Beck claiming Obama a r****t: he "h**es white people." Issa stating that Obama is the most corrupt president ever; he is practicing "gangster politics
Rush calling a woman a "s**t." Beck claiming Obama a r****t: he "h**es white people." Issa stating that Obama is the most corrupt president ever; he is practicing "gangster politics
Simply stating some simple t***hs
Jun 9, 2013 10:42:22 #
Jun 9, 2013 10:57:04 #
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