{"id":71932,"date":"2017-05-09T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71932"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:47:07","slug":"and-in-the-wtf-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71932","title":{"rendered":"And In the “WTF?!!” Department . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, the linked article’s headline – repeated in the link below – is accurate.<\/p>\n

Seventh grader suspended for ‘liking’
\na photo of a gun on Instagram<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Sheesh. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the idiots come up with something even more idiotic and prove you wrong.<\/p>\n

Yes, I understand the school’s concern about school violence, but c’mon. Here, the district suspended a kid for “liking” a non-explicit picture – a picture of an airsoft pistol with the one-word caption “Ready” – he saw posted on Instagram while web surfing from home at 7PM.<\/u><\/i> And they did it without giving the kid a chance to explain himself.<\/p>\n

Yeah, like the kid’s parents I kinda got a problem with that.<\/p>\n

Really? Do they also monitor their students to see if they visit pr0n sites late at night on the Internet while at home? Or what books they check out from the city library on weekends – or download from Amazon?<\/p>\n

I think Hank Hill described the behavior by the school administration here quite well<\/em><\/a>. Except here, laughter isn’t IMO in any way appropriate.<\/p>\n

Big Brother approves. Those who value common sense and freedom . . . perhaps not so much.<\/p>\n

If school administrators in that school district have nothing better to do than monitor their students’ off-hours off-campus Internet usage, well, to me that suggests a very different problem. Specifically: it suggests that perhaps that district has far too many school administrators. And the fact that they’d suspend a student for liking a picture of any<\/span> gun on Instagram – without even asking the kid for an explanation, and with no other indication of a problem – shows an utter lack of common sense (though that’s regrettably often the case in education these days).<\/p>\n

Maybe instead of playing “after hours Internet monitor”, the district should instead let a few administrators<\/em> go. They could then hire a few more teachers with the money saved.<\/p>\n

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(Author’s Note<\/span>:\u00a0 edited to reflect the fact that the “gun” in question was an airsoft pistol vice paintball.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, the linked article’s headline – repeated in the link below – is accurate. Seventh grader … And In the “WTF?!!” Department . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}