The Glade 4.0

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Remember, if schoolchildren are allowed to turn their friends invisible the terrorists win.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I've seen this article a few times over the last few days, and each time I see it, I struggle to figure out how using the Ring of Power(TM) to make someone invisible can be seen as a threat. Unless the administration is interpreting "disappear" as a euphemism.

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Because it makes them a target for Sauron? Why is this so hard to understand?

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The Dude abides.

I like the father's comment, quoted in the NY Daily News (so apply grains of salt as needed): "I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend’s existence."

Also, it seems his kid has been suspended two other times in the last six months - once for referring to a black kid as "black" and once for bringing a children's encyclopedia called "The Big Book of Knowledge" to school, apparently because his teacher objected to an illustration it had of a pregnant woman. So, yeah...awesome school there.

I found a blog that independently comments on The Big Book of Knowledge and the pages in question: https://leonsmom.wordpress.com/tag/the- ... knowledge/. You can make your own decision on if the pages are worthy of the disciplinary action.

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Nice! Thanks, Mookhow. My Google-fu failed me when I tried to find the illustrations.

There's a simple answer to this and its called School Choice.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Very obviously this.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

I thought this was a thread about the recently released Obama Budget.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Yay Texas.

My favorite article about the idiocy: http://www.avclub.com/article/fourth-gr ... dar-214678

Texas is a large state. Pretty sure one particular example of total idiocy is not related to it being in Texas. We see school ridiculousness pretty much everywhere.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

This logic prevails in all but one place: Baltimore. There are no exceptions in the disgustingness that is that muckhole. If there is some source of universal justice, Kaiju will spawn in the Chesapeake until that place is destroyed.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Hang on, now - we shouldn't be granting an exception to the rules for this special little snowflake.

http://www.gladerebooted.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10318&hilit=teacher#p241543

You're completely right. I missed where Kermit Elementary School'sl rules bar Ainur-crafted tools of power and control from the premises. My mistake.

So, by your sarcasm you must be assuming then that they did not have any policy reason at all to suspend the child? That this is blatant abuse rather than simply idiotic application of an existing policy? If so, do you have any evidence for this?

No. There are no "terroristic threats" that were made by the child. The school is being stupid.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I am not quite sure how "idiotic application of existing policy" differs from "blatant abuse" when the action banned by the policy is something which can't even be attempted in the first place. It should be obvious that it is not a terroristic threat to threaten to do something which is..., well, completely impossible- and if the argument is made that the other student is too young to understand that and therefore was in fear anyhow, then obviously the other child is too young to understand the concept of a "terroristic threat" and why not to make them.

Normally, we should not assume malice when incompetence will suffice, but at a certain point the incompetence is so outlandish that it essentially becomes malice when committed by a person of normal intelligence - and I am fairly certain that these school administrators are fully functional by any accepted measure.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm surprised they only suspended him, and didn't try to burn him for witchcraft. Or Trafficking with Dark Powers or some other BS.

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Holy shitsnacks!

He should have told them Jesus Lion from Narnia said it was ok.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn