Banned from grad for senior prank

[cali]

this reminded me of an incident here, a girl was suspended for 10 days for bring a plastc toy gun to school to play "cops and robbers" with her friend during lunch hour, the toy was put away for the rest of the day. there was a huge outcry of people dclairing that she got what she deserved. what pissed me off the most was the same day this one happend, another incident happed at another school, a kid brought a PELLET gun to school, took it outside at recess and began shooting unsuspecting classmates with the pellet gun. this kids punishment? 1 day suspension and not one single person objected to what the kid did or his punishment. the punishment for that pellet gun should have been WAAAYYY more severe then the punishment for a toy in a girl backpack,maybe if people paid attention to the people that actually needed help schools would not need to be adding securitys guards and metal detectors, instead the heavy punishments goes to the petty "crimes", while the serious "crimes" get only a slap on the wrist..if anything.

[ratdogg]

a pellet gun is not comparable at all to a plastic toy gun...just curious but did the toy gun incident happen in the suburbs? I live in a suburb of SF and people here think they are hot stuff even though they aren't really that wealthy or distinguished.

[cali]

nope, no suburbs, both schools involved were normal middle class schools, neither high end nor inner city. a 1 day suspentions went to the kid with a gun that could injure, and was intentinally used against unknowing students. a 10 days suspention went to a girl who played with an utterly harmless toy gun ONLY with her friend, and had it put away for the remaindor of the day.

[CagneyDog]

Being a kid myself, I don't think that was a fair punishment. Although I do see the other end of spectrum too.

I've made mistakes, I've said things I shouldn't have. I know that we all have regardless of age. Was it a stupid thing to do? Yes. Was that a bad way to react? Yes. However, in my opinion putting a damper on a teens future because he swore and glued some trays together is going a bit far. With that being said, I do think he needs to learn a lesson and the fact that he clearly has no respect for his teachers is appalling.

[K9soul]

However, in my opinion putting a damper on a teens future because he swore and glued some trays together is going a bit far.

Actually it would do nothing to put a damper on his future. He will still get his diploma, probably mailed to him. He just can't go to the actual ceremony at the school and get it in public. He wasn't denied graduating, just going to the ceremony.