11 Year Old Arrested After Bringing A Gun And 400 Rounds Of Ammo To School

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Department of Education Spends Thousands of Dollars on ... Guns?

According to InfoWars:

Since at least 2001, the U.S. Department of Education has been building a massive arsenal of guns purchased through steep discounts orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the U.S. Capitol Police.

The Education Department’s Office of the Inspector General somehow found it necessary to spend over $80,000 on Glock pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns in the past seven years for investigations into “fraud, waste or abuse of Department of Education funds.”

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Prior to receiving a firearm, Dept. of Education OIG special agents must complete a training course conducted by the Department of Homeland Security.

WTF does the Dept. of Education need with guns?!

Truancy...
Falling asleep in class...
Failing a test...

It seems governmental department over seeing pretty much everything from schools to fishing are armed to the teeth.  

Seems a little out of hand to me.  I don't even think police should have guns, and here we have random bureaucrats being armed as well?

Police Officer's Gun "GOES OFF" At Elementary School Wounding 3 Children!

Is it any wonder people with even a slightly functioning brain do not want police officers patrolling our nations schools? Or for that matter our streets.  They are a danger to everyone around them.  

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Public School Children Living in Poverty

According to RT:

A new study by the Southern Education Foundation has revealed that the number of low income students enrolled in schools across the United States has surged in recent years to new astronomical numbers.

According to the study, 17 of the 50 states in the country can say that at least half of their students come from households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

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In Mississippi, 71 percent of public schoolchildren placed into the low income category. New Mexico and Louisiana rounded out the top-three states with regards to low income majorities, and the 17 locales listed with as having more than half of their students included states such as Florida and California, with 56 and 54 percent of its public school students, respectively, considered low income.

Taking into account the whole US, the foundation said 48 percent of all public school children came from homes with incomes low enough to earn those students free or reduced lunches. 

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The foundation predicts that within the next few years, “low income students will become a majority of all public school children in the United States.”

Is it any wonder America's public schools are in such disarray?  Of course they are, when half the students that attend them are worried about what they are going to eat for lunch, it makes it hard to focus on learning.  When half the students come from low income neighborhoods the government obviously isn't focusing on their needs.  

There are rich kids to worry about and they are all attending private schools.  There are loaded donors who need subsidies  and bail outs to worry about.  Poor kids being taught at poorly run institutions are the least of our overlords problems.  If this is the level we are at today, I am truly scared to imagine how many American kids will be living in poverty when the SHTF.  

SWAT Team Raids School

According to CBS:

A police SWAT team responded to the north campus of Lyons Township High School in La Grange after an instructor reported — mistakenly — she had possibly heard gunfire.

Police from La Grange and nearby suburbs evacuated the high school as a precaution. But in the end, the response was a practice drill for authorities.

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“There were no reports of holes in any buildings, no injuries, no smell, no odors that would be consistent with gunshots,” La Grange Police Chief Michael Holub said.

The system truly has engrained the fear of God in to students and teachers across the nation.  Someone drops a text book on the floor (only an assumption not what really happened) and a SWAT team clears the school out?!

I understand being on the cautious side of things to keep the kids safe, but I don't know, it seems to me like schools around the country are going a bit far in all of the suspensions and expulsions over gun toys and shirts.  Then we have this paranoid fear that any loud noise may be a gun shot.

Dear God was I lucky when I was in high school that brining a cap gun in to school and shooting it in the cafeteria was just a silly prank that no one even thought about two seconds after it happened.  No cops, no SWAT, no suspension, everyone realized it was a toy and no one freaked out.  

Oh how things have changed in a mere decade.  

American Flag Shirt on Cinco De Mayo

According to RT:

A federal appeals court is considering whether administrators of a school marred by racial tension and gang activity went too far when they sent home students who arrived wearing American flag shirts on a Mexican holiday.

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Administrators said they told the students to hide their clothing because of heightened stress and shouting matches between students on Cinco de Mayo in 2009 at the school, which is located approximately 20 miles from San Jose in central California. The students claim there was no evidence that their clothing had incited any tension and that “American schools cannot logically ban the American flag for any duration or reason.”

Mexican students told KSBW.com that they felt disrespected by the students’ clear decision to coordinate their outfits. “We would never do that on the Fourth of July,” one student said.

“I did nothing wrong,” student Daniel Galli said in 2010. “I’m American and I’m proud to be American, so that’s why I wore it.”

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“Here, the school is saying on this day, in these circumstances, with racism floating around…we’re not going to risk having a blowup here. So one day only let’s defuse this,” Judge Margaret McKeown said. “What’s wrong with this?You have to wait until they duke it out in the courtyard?”

This is a tough one, while I truly would like to say something about public schools trying to subvert traditional American ideals.  I also completely understand the view point of both the Hispanic students and the administration.

In this case I kind of side with the school.  These students were obviously trying to stir something up with their garb, not being patriotic.  While banning wearing an American Flag shirt outright would be insane, asking these kids to have some common decency during a specific ethnic holiday seems completely appropriate to me.