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Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun

by yoster 13y ago

Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was. The teacher rolled her eyes and said "office". I got suspended for it, and was told that I would have to have a parent-principle meeting to go back to school. I ended up "playing hooky" from school for a month because I didn't want to tell my parents. Nowadays if I did this, I would end up with a slew of felonies. Things have really changed from the 90's....

jspark 13y ago
The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.
- yoster 13y ago
  It also seems bullying has grown to astronomical proportions.
  - illuminate 13y ago
    Hasn't changed, people are only aware of it these days.
- CamperBob2 13y ago
  Yeah, imagine how paranoid we'd be if someone had used dynamite to blow up an entire school building full of kids. :( Oh, wait, someone did, in 1927, and nobody launched a generalized war on sanity as a result. There must be something else different.
  - temaki 13y ago
    Media. Back then news spread slowly.
- Daniel_Newby 13y ago
  No, the paranoia and cocooning has been building much longer than that. After the wild period of 1960-1989, the pendulum has swung the other way and America is reliving the straight-laced 1950s.
jerf 13y ago
"Wonder if it has to do with her skin color." While I can't know the internal motivations of those involved, I would observe that neither the race nor the gender issues are necessary, in the Occam's Razor sense of the term [1]. The student suspended for chewing his poptart into a gun was a 7-year-old white boy. The student suspended for discussing shooting a Hello Kitty bubble gun was a 5-year-old white girl. Zero tolerance stupidity has been doled out across the board with no apparent regard for, well, anything, like sanity, let alone race or gender lines. The 1995 Valedictorian of my high school lit off the hydrogen in the hydrolysis experiment, because, you know, it was there. Good thing he didn't pull that stunt today. Though I imagine that experiment has probably been long removed for creating dangerous quantities of explosives in the classroom. [1] As a reminder, Occam's Razor is a heuristic, not a proof. Perhaps racism or sexism is involved, the lack of necessity is not a disproof of their presence, but the Razor suggests that aspect be cut away from your dominant hypothesis, pending future evidence requiring them in the explanation.

by yoster 13y ago

jspark 13y ago

The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.

yoster 13y ago
It also seems bullying has grown to astronomical proportions.
- illuminate 13y ago
  Hasn't changed, people are only aware of it these days.
CamperBob2 13y ago
Yeah, imagine how paranoid we'd be if someone had used dynamite to blow up an entire school building full of kids. :( Oh, wait, someone did, in 1927, and nobody launched a generalized war on sanity as a result. There must be something else different.
- temaki 13y ago
  Media. Back then news spread slowly.
Daniel_Newby 13y ago
No, the paranoia and cocooning has been building much longer than that. After the wild period of 1960-1989, the pendulum has swung the other way and America is reliving the straight-laced 1950s.

jerf 13y ago

"Wonder if it has to do with her skin color." While I can't know the internal motivations of those involved, I would observe that neither the race nor the gender issues are necessary, in the Occam's Razor sense of the term [1]. The student suspended for chewing his poptart into a gun was a 7-year-old white boy. The student suspended for discussing shooting a Hello Kitty bubble gun was a 5-year-old white girl. Zero tolerance stupidity has been doled out across the board with no apparent regard for, well, anything, like sanity, let alone race or gender lines. The 1995 Valedictorian of my high school lit off the hydrogen in the hydrolysis experiment, because, you know, it was there. Good thing he didn't pull that stunt today. Though I imagine that experiment has probably been long removed for creating dangerous quantities of explosives in the classroom. [1] As a reminder, Occam's Razor is a heuristic, not a proof. Perhaps racism or sexism is involved, the lack of necessity is not a disproof of their presence, but the Razor suggests that aspect be cut away from your dominant hypothesis, pending future evidence requiring them in the explanation.