TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross
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It's just the price of living in a heavily armed nation - that what used to be cute, isn't anymore. (AP Photo/File)

Fair warning, kids

BY Dave Ross  on January 4, 2013 @ 12:27 pm (Updated: 3:50 pm - 1/4/13 )

At Roscoe Nix Elementary in Silver Spring Maryland, Rodney Lynch, age 6, has been reprieved. But for a while he was in pretty big trouble.

On December 20th, six days after the shooting in Connecticut, he was, as he puts it, fooling around.

"I went into my desk, and I got scissors and I just pretended it was a gun," said Rodney.

That got him immediately sent to the office. He got his scolding, and went back to first grade class, but then he did it again, and finally another student, a little girl made a gun gesture at HIM and said "POW", he did it a third time.

"She did the pow sound and I just went like that! And then I got sent to the office again. I'm the one that gets suspended for just nothing," Rodney told a local news station.

The school argues it was Rodney who made the "pow" sound, and that he had been warned such things are inappropriate. That's why he was suspended the following day.

His parents are saying, come on, he's just a cute little kid.

"They're saying 'He threatened a student. He threatened to shoot a student.' He was just playing," said his dad.

His mom agreed, "I don't think the punishment fits the crime."

Rodney said his teacher even wanted to know what video games he played. Which come to think of it, would be interesting to know.

But good news for Rodney - the school system has decided to expunge his first grade rap sheet. This will not follow him for life, except for all the stories about him on the internet. It's just the price of living in a heavily armed nation - that what used to be cute, isn't anymore.

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  • CH wrote...
    AJ was also doing CH . So are we done? . . . .
    January 5, 2013 2:48 pm
    I will try to stop but no Guarantees. You gave the news chick a gotcha moment. you were taking about animal house, I was talking about bottom fish.
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  • Snout wrote...
    No tolerance policies. Now that's not very progressive.
    January 5, 2013 3:06 pm
    Hmmm. They won't tolerate toy guns or even a thumb and finger hogleg on the playground? They won't tolerate a Christmas tree or a star of David or menorah in schools? They won't tolerate the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of the school day? They won't tolerate even a moment of silence to allow students who are religious (regardless of faith) to pray? They won't tolerate a Columbus day celebration? They won't tolerate the celebration of Thanksgiving? Gee, I thought conservatives were the intolerant bigots. Please, these people are like the radical Islamists. Disagree with them and it's off with your head because their beliefs trump everyone else's.
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  • rational wrote...
    No tolerance policies. Now that's not very progressive.
    January 5, 2013 9:49 pm
    True. What you have to remember is when the term "progressive" is used it doesn't mean progress as in improvement, it means incremental. Progressives are fascists at heart.
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  • deltta wrote...
    Remember the Occupy "general"
    January 5, 2013 3:24 pm
    The clown, dressed as a clown.... that went around "shooting" at SPD with his unbrella? So he didn't learn that stuff in school, right?
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQaeRxZMexE
    January 5, 2013 4:45 pm
    BAM....BAM dirty clown
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Rodney said his teacher even wanted to know what video games he played. Which come to think of it, would be interesting to know
    January 5, 2013 5:28 pm
    This would be an infringement on the child's first amendment rights.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Good thing for that school district that was not my child.
    January 7, 2013 9:23 am
    I would have been down there and in the principle, school board, Superintendent, whatever, about how I thought disciplining my Son for something like that was inappropriate!

    I have done so before.

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