7 Year Old Boy Suspended By School for Shaping Pastry Into a Gun (Update: Letter To Parents)
Sunday, 3rd March 2013Posted in Offbeat
Tags: 7 year old boy, gun, pastry, school, suspended
Written by: Paul Nyhart
You can’t make this stuff up (chances are if you did you’d probably get suspeneded)…
A 7 year old boy was given a two day suspension for shaping his lunch pastry into a gun and reportedly making “bang, bang” sounds with it (it’s been at least a decade since I’ve typed the phrase bang, bang sounds).
The tragedy of it all, according to the boy, was that the pastry was shaped to originally fashion itself after a mountain. Continue reading “7 Year Old Boy Suspended By School for Shaping Pastry Into a Gun (Update: Letter To Parents)” »
15 Year Old Girl Suspended For Anti-Bullying Video
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Keeping it Real, Online Video
Tags: bully, girl, jessica barta, suspended, video
Written by: Paul Nyhart
You ever feel that you were doing the right thing, only to be punished for doing something that, in someone else’s eyes, was actually harmful and breeding negativity?
That’s exactly what one 15 year old student is going through right now. Jessica Barba created a video meant to raise awareness against bullying and explain that it is a “100%” preventable problem, but has instead received a 5 day suspension from the school’s administration.
According to the NBC report when Barta heard the decision: Continue reading “15 Year Old Girl Suspended For Anti-Bullying Video” »
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