Banned from grad for senior prank

[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.