"It also highlights the way the "education system" is also an indoctrination system, imparting beliefs and conditioned reactions to produce disapproval and fear of armed citizens."
“A Kermit [Texas] parent said his fourth-grade student was suspended Friday for allegedly making a terroristic threat,” the Odessa American reported Friday. After seeing “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” nine-year-old Aiden Steward allegedly brought a ring to school and told a classmate it was magic and could make him disappear.
The boy’s father, Jason Steward, said Kermit Elementary School Principal Roxanne Greer informed him "threats to another child’s safety would not be tolerated -- whether magical or not.” For her part, Greer declined to comment, citing confidentiality requirements.
The incident does illustrate the seeming paradox of schools that have programs against bullies essentially assuming that role. It also highlights the way the "education system" is also an indoctrination system, imparting beliefs and conditioned reactions to produce disapproval and fear of armed citizens. As this column has shown before, things were not always that way, and many of us remember a much different time.
The ultimate problem is that schools, via illusory “gun free zones,” provide those intent on making a name for themselves through acts of unspeakable evil a practical guarantee they will get what they most desire: success. Until that paradigm changes, expect ever more ridiculous examples of “zero tolerance” insanity to continue to make the news.
http://www.examiner.com/article/hobbit-ring-school-suspension-merits-closer-look?CID=examiner_alerts_article
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