Ohio’s Celina Middle School suspended eighth-grader Tyler
Carlin for including a “Nerf gun” in his school project to honor fallen troops.
Master Carlin wanted to create a “battle cross” monument for his history
project, in part because a family friend told him about his time in Vietnam. He
also replied to a question from “Fox & Friends’” Brian Kilmeade that the
project meant so much to him because a soldier’s brief time in front of a battle
cross is “the last chance that…the military, their friends get to say goodbye
to them” before going back out to fight and leaving their fallen comrades-in-arms
behind.
Carlin
said his teacher knew about his plans, yet administration officials suspended
him anyway for bringing a toy gun to school, a violation of school policy. The
student appeared on “Fox & Friends” with attorney Travis Faber. Faber
stated: “After
he had started serving the suspension and we had some time to look into this,
we said ‘this is ridiculous,’ can you make the suspension go away and apologize
to Tyler for what you did and we’ll make this all go away’ and they refused to
do that.”
When queried
about the suspension, the Celina school board said it would not make any
statement, as that might violate a “student’s right to privacy.” Funny, the
board certainly had no qualms about violating a student’s First Amendment
rights (or his right to sanity and dignity).
Shining a ray
of hope on the issue, supporters staged a protest at the school shortly after
Carlin’s suspension was announced. Faber said, “We’re going to do whatever we
have to, to make this right.”
Nerf “guns”
are cheap plastic toys that shoot soft
foam darts. Will we ban Styrofoam “knives” too? Conversely, maybe we could
get abortionists to show up for work with Nerf-like soft foam curettes, pliers,
scissors and catheters.
Banning Nerf
guns from school grounds or replacing abortionists’ metal tools with soft foam
substitutes, which would save more lives?
Young Mr.
Carlin wasn’t suspended for possessing a Nerf toy. He was suspended for
honoring the military, believing in Second Amendment rights, and generally
acting as if he might grow up to be a conservative and a patriot. All of which
are anathema to most of today’s educator-indoctrinators, who wouldn’t mind
seeing the Tyler Carlins of the world end up like those for whom he wanted to erect
a battle cross.
“Happy”
Veterans of the Vietnam War Day.
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