We’ve only just completed January and the competition for Most Stupid Thing of The Year is off to a roaring start. I believe this is at least even money with the Army defeated by “chinks in the armor“.
Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his “one ring” to school.
Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom.
“It sounded unbelievable,” the boy’s father, Jason Steward, told the Daily News. He insists his son “didn’t mean anything by it.”
The Stewards had just watched “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” days earlier, inspiring Aiden’s imagination and leading him to proclaim that he had in his possession the one ring to rule them all.
“Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly,” Steward said.
Aiden claimed Thursday he could put a ring on his friend’s head and make him invisible like Bilbo Baggins, who stole Gollum’s “precious” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series “The Lord of the Rings.”
“I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend’s existence,” the boy’s father later wrote in an email. “If he did, I’m sure he’d bring him right back.”
Principal Roxanne Greer declined to comment on the fourth-grader’s suspension, citing confidentiality policies, according to the Odessa American, who first reported Aiden’s troubles Friday.
“Principal Roxanne Greer” … let me leap to an assumption that this female has some issues with the nature of little boys.
It is NOT a good thing that k-6 teachers are almost exclusively female.
And this wasn’t the first time little Aiden has been slapped down by Greer’s goblins ..
Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: “The Big Book of Knowledge.”
“He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,” Steward said.
But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.
Seriously, this is child abuse. The principal and every teacher who participated in these actions need to be fired.
But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.
So, then. What to do when some fourth grader’s mother turns up pregnant with a soon-to-be sibling? Explain that Mom accidentally left the coffee ground sit in the Keurig overnight?
Of course, a pregnancy illustration in a book brought from home will get you suspended, but they’ll allow GALA to do school assemblies about various alternative lifestyles and anyone who objects to that is just a Christian-ist prude.
The teachers and administration will never be fired. Better to remove one’s children from such lunacy before they’re irreparably damaged.
The case for tarrings and featherings strengthens.
And perhaps some burnings, pillagings, and salting of the earthings….
Not to mention sex-segregated schools.
One Ring. The Hiss heard ’round the World.
Kids these days.
If I had kids they would not be in public school.
The principal and every teacher who participated in these actions need to be fired.
Taken out and horsewhipped. When they’re fired, they just get another job inflicting the same misery elsewhere.
Cranky, the best decision I ever made some 19 years ago was deciding to send my kids to parochial school.
It’s almost a pity the kid wasn’t suspended for necromancy, sorcery, heathenism, our outright pagan idolatry. Because then the right sacred cow would’ve been gored, and maybe something could have been done about the oppressive moral conformity on display here.
It is for the type of woman teacher that Glenn Reynolds is posting on all the time. I think they call that “grooming,” but only when male perverts (redundancy intended) do it).
And sending your kids to parochial school won’t save you for too much longer. Not after the Supreme Court gets through with reconceptualizing marriage it won’t.
[…] Evidently there are some conservatives who would like to consider this part of the ‘war on boys’ but, if you read the 2nd comment, it may tell the entire story. It is a school in crises. You would think, with a school where the teacher student ratio was 14:1 they would be doing better, but evidently not. […]
He was told in the language of the ruler, by a grown up and less successful than expected mean girl, that his sperg-tard nerd shit makes him fair game before the elect.
“I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend’s existence,” the boy’s father later wrote in an email.
If the child’s father has shown this lack of respect since the first incident, then it’s little wonder that there have been more since. Petty tyrants cannot bear to have their authority questioned, nor to have their position mocked.
I hope this guy makes it his life’s work to publicly embarrass the Administration at every opportunity. Shouldn’t be difficult, though I imagine it would grow tedious after a while.
“Children, this week’s Word of the Week is ‘martinet.’ Who can tell me what the definition of ‘martinet’ is?”
As reported by a relative of a friend:
On the plus side, young Aiden has learned the valuable lesson: “Women, they be crazy!”
Present company excepted, naturally.