Child Still Expelled for Toy Gun - a Year Later | NBC Miami
Parents want their child back in school. School board says no way
The 8-year-old boy hasn't been in school for a year and will likely miss another year if the Broward County School Board has its way.
Burgos was suspended from school in November after a teacher found a toy gun in his backpack. But when the boy went to register to go back to Pembroke Pines Charter School, he was told he will be expelled for this school year, too, as part of the county's zero tolerance weapons policy.
"He made a mistake, but why the severe punishment? I don't understand that," said Magdiel Burgos, Sam's dad.
Way overboard and borderline crazy, if not crazy.
He was 7 when this happened... he's a little boy, and I remember I liked toy guns at that age too. He was probably excited to show his buddies, anyone with half a brain could understand that.
I would have thought a month would be overboard... in fact I think a week is overboard.
A year... now two!!!?
Kick the idiots on the school board out. They have shown they lack common sense.
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Way overboard and borderline crazy, if not crazy.
He was 7 when this happened... he's a little boy, and I remember I liked toy guns at that age too. He was probably excited to show his buddies, anyone with half a brain could understand that.
I would have thought a month would be overboard... in fact I think a week is overboard.
A year... now two!!!?
Kick the idiots on the school board out. They have shown they lack common sense.
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this is absurd... are they trying to permanently destroy this kids life?!?!?
As for relocating, can the parents do that? I don't know about where they live or their economic circumstances...
I know, relocation is hard - but I think it would be the ideal solution.
I'm not excusing the school, but he'll never get past this. He'll be behind in school when/if they let him back in - he'll be back at least one entire grade level, probably - it's *very* hard to keep pace with public-school standards when you homeschool (I've done it before). . . and once you get a bad reputation it's *very* hard to let it go.
I know, relocation is hard - but I think it would be the ideal solution.
I'm not excusing the school, but he'll never get past this. He'll be behind in school when/if they let him back in - he'll be back at least one entire grade level, probably - it's *very* hard to keep pace with public-school standards when you homeschool (I've done it before). . . and once you get a bad reputation it's *very* hard to let it go.
Not disagreeing with any of this. This is the problem with Lib-nazis in control of the education system in America. Absolutely absurd...
So the answer is to let the real bully's win?
j-mac
So the answer is to let the real bully's win?
j-mac
Lib-Nazis? Which ones? The ones running school boards that want to push for creationism to be taught as science? Or the ones who print school books showing Thomas Aquinas as a more important political influence than Thomas Jefferson? What about the ones who try to force kids to pray in school regardless of their religion? Are they Lib-Nazis? What about the school boards who cancel proms because one of the kids attending is gay and wants to go with their partner? Tell us about these 'Lib-Nazis'. Who are they? What system are they running?
Love how you pull out a handful of isolated instances to try to hide the fact that the national educational establishment is controlled by liberalism who seek to push their agenda on everyone -- the teachers and the kids... I am a professional educator and have experienced it first hand in the public schools
teaching in Georgia... one reason I am not longer a public educator in the U.S.
Love how you pull out a handful of isolated instances to try to hide the fact that the national educational establishment is controlled by liberalism who seek to push their agenda on everyone -- the teachers and the kids... I am a professional educator and have experienced it first hand in the public schools teaching in Georgia... one reason I am not longer a public educator in the U.S.
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