A Dragonfly in the Ointment

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I'm 45 years old, married for 22 of them, and the mother of 2 teenagers. I'm a software test engineer by profession, and rather geeky. I've spent almost my entire life in Northern CA.

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JANUARY 24, 2010 4:02PM

UPDATE: Student brings guns to school, school board says OK

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The boy who was expelled for having his gun on his truck has had his expulsion overturned by the county Board of Education. I expected it, Boards of Education are not noted for having the intestinal fortitude to make unpopular decisions.

 

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2483630.html?storylink=pluck_commented

 

Think about this, this was an unsecured gun, plainly visible on the back seat of the truck, only a couple of feet off campus, readily available to any young hot head, and the school board thought is was none of the school’s business.

 

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I hate these kinds of posts, because the Zero-Tolerance policies at most schools are a joke. Suspending 1st graders for bringing fingernail clippers to school. But this, a gun in a truck is a horse of a different color. Common sense is all it takes. Great Post!
scanner
January 24, 2010 06:08 PM
Thanks, scanner. I thought it was common sense too. Guns should not be readily available during the school day to students.
Dragonfly
January 25, 2010 11:52 AM
I don't see the big deal. This student didn't view the gun as a weapon but as a hunting tool. I'm glad that his high school career wasn't ruined for a lapse in judgement. For once, zero tolerance wasn't applied, and of course, people are unhappy.
perdidochas
January 25, 2010 02:13 PM
The gun not just available to the one kid, it was readily available to the entire high school. It was only parked on the other side of the sidewalk, in plain view. And the kid sounds like he is well on his way to ruining his high school career with many discipline problems and F’s in core classes.
Dragonfly
January 25, 2010 02:34 PM
First, his truck wasn't on campus. Yes, it was very close to campus, but from the video I watched on Channel 10, there was a fence in between the sidewalk and the campus.
Second, his truck was locked, not open for everybody.
Third, from the picture on one of the news articles, it appears his truck is some kind of extended cab. The back seat has tinted windows. The news report says the guns were "in the back seat" by which I presume means under the back seat. Since they were found by gun-sniffing dogs and not by general observation, the situation is not as open and closed as some think.
perdidochas
January 25, 2010 02:48 PM
My husband used to have the same model truck, the tinted windows really did not do anything to hide the stuff on the back seat. There was a picture in another paper, I think it was the Marysville Appeal-Democrat that showed him stowing his guns ON the back seat, not under it. The fence you saw, was the fence that surrounded the tennis court, and student walking right past the spot where the truck was parked all the time.
Dragonfly
January 25, 2010 03:44 PM
I'm pretty sure being expelled wouldn't stop him from shooting up the whole school if he planned to.
RavingBits
January 26, 2010 09:46 AM