Kid suspended for drawing a gun

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

I'm feelin' ya, CP. I don't understand why people are so afraid.

I think the only people afraid here are teachers and administrators who are afraid of getting their butts sued and/or fired if some aberration did happen. It is a complete and total CYA.

[Gemini Cricket]

MAYER, Ariz. -- A 15-year-old boy made a hit list and threatened to blow up his school on Thursday, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said.

Deputies arrived at Mayer High School around 2 p.m. on reports of a bomb threat.

School officials had placed the school on lockdown in response to threats by a student to "detonate the school," deputies said.

The boy allegedly created a hit list and showed classmates a device in his back pack that he claimed was a bomb.


A Department of Public Safety bomb squad was called in from Flagstaff, which is more than an hour and 20 minutes away.

The bomb squad evacuated the school and destroyed the device. Deputies said the device turned out to be non-explosive.

The student who made the threats was arrested on charges of hoax and disruption of an educational facility, both felonies.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Scottsdale school bus drivers drove their personal vehicles to all the stops on their routes Friday to inform parents that vandals had broken into a Scottsdale Unified School District bus yard overnight, smashing the windows of 79 buses.

The damaged buses were out of service Friday, but school was held as usual. The 19 schools whose bus routes were affected included all elementary, middle and high schools in the Arcadia, Coronado and Saguaro complexes. A total of 237 bus routes and 4,000 students were affected by the vandalism.

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The schools in the state may be on alert because of issues like these above. Maybe that's why the punishment seems harsh. In context with stories like these (granted the 2nd story doesn't say if it's the students or not) I find what the school did to that kid to be just.