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  Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(URL) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) school (which is good), you are not allowed to think about a gun. Thought police. Wonderful. Yet another reason the USA's public school system is way to messed up. eric (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Sure, have a talk with him. Yes, discuss things and talk to him about why it's inappropriate to be casual with mock violence. Suspension is just a bit severe for an 8 year old. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) DaveE (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) I think you're too chicken to blame the school system. (now don't get saucy with me) ;) -Tim (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Oh, Tim. That was fowl. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) I agree. Clearly it let *you* down somewhere along the line, at least in a minor way. :-) (Way to mess up on the too/to thingie, eric. Don't you hate it when that happens to a post you wrote? I do too. It happens too much. ) (an eric slips (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Assuming I went to public school. eric (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) I read about that story, and I have a bone to peck with it, too. How can they justify giving him a poultry three days suspenshen?! Chicken is a dangerous, dangerous weapon! Someone breast not come down with salmonella, or the principal there (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) I don't care how old he is. Suspension is a bit severe for pointing a piece of *POULTRY* at someone. Imagine trying to defend feeling so threatened by someone pointing a peice of (presumably boneless, even) food at you that you wanted to get a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) It's fine to joke about it, but you're ignoring the serious possibility that the teacher might have wound up with a poulet lodged in her brain. Dave! (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) If not.... demand a refund from your english teachers! :-) GRIN ++Lar (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Now this is egg-sactly the kind of reactionary idea we need to avoid. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) You mean ovoid. Dave! (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Man this stuff is lay-m. None of these puns are anything to crow about, actually. Still, when it's time to pun, it's time to pun. OK, then: Last one to make a bad pun is a rotten egg. ++Lar (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Don't count your chickens before they're hatched, or the yolk's on you. Dave! (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) I admit I was wrong to go around pointing a finger at anyone. DaveE (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) This kind of thing happens way too oft-hen. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) And it's way to e-cluck-tic for me... ROSCO (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) how incredibly undeniably ludicrous it is to punish someone for pretending poultry is a gun, let's focus on the scary comment in the last paragraph: "Sullivan said punishment for a threat "depends on the tone, the demeanor, and in some manner (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
"Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:G83qD0.469@lugnet.com... (...) Your brain just isn't coop-erating with the way we're thinking - don't keep yourself penned up. -Tim (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Time to come out of my shell, eh? ROSCO (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Egging each other on (was Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Ross Crawford writes: <I just snipped the whole thing, it was flopping around like a chicken with its head cut off. Someone had to pullet together. The weight of all the puns was making it hard to keep my Chanticleer> But I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Egging each other on (was Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Jeez Lar, quit raggin' on these guys, will ya? James (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) You crack me up. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) Would it be at all different if the 'victim' was peer? Would it be at all different if the aggressor were also saying "I'm going to shoot you with a gun" or something? Would it matter if the victim were traumatized by the event? Would it (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) nice pun. (...) no. no. I hope not. not really. Did we remember that the kid was 8 years old? I'm sure some of you have children this age and I have a brother who is currently 8. This kid probably would have gotten less punishment if the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Keeping Our Schools Safe
 
(...) cut (...) the (...) I know a little boy who was expelled from a private school for the first offense. I thought it was a bit dramatic, but was wondering if that was the general perception. Chris (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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