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GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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edited April 2018 in Tug Tavern
Yes, it's about a month old. FO.

HS students' suspension over gun range photo ignites uproar, potential lawsuit

A New Jersey school district that allegedly suspended two high school students this week over a gun photo taken during a family visit to a private shooting range is facing community backlash and the threat of a lawsuit over district policies.

The photo of four rifles, magazines and a gun duffel bag was shared by one of the students on the social media app Snapchat with the caption "fun day at the range," according to Lacey Township resident Amanda Buron, a family friend of one of the students.

A screen capture of the image made the rounds among other students and later brought to the attention of Lacey Township High School officials. Buron said the students received a five-day in-school suspension for violating the school's policy on weapons possession.

N.J. district facing backlash over gun photo suspensions changes policy

The Lacey school district quietly changed a policy last week that prohibited students from legally handling a gun off campus after being threatened with a lawsuit by a gun advocacy organization.

Though the district denied it disciplined two students after one posted a photo of firearms at a range, a family friend said the boys received five days of in-school suspension. One of the boys also said in a Facebook post that he and his friend were punished.

The discipline against the students ignited an uproar on social media and could lead to a big turnout at a board education meeting Monday evening at Lacey Township High School.

Before tweaking the language in the high school's student handbook, the policy said "any student who is reported to be in possession of a weapon of any type for any reason or purpose whether on or off school grounds," would be subject to penalties including up to a one-year suspension.

It now omits any mention of possessing a weapon off school grounds and doesn't mention a specific suspension length. It also includes a note on buses.

Lacey students received five-day, in-school suspension: Letter

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  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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    Pleased to be amending, the ACLU did show up. Good on them.

    Alexander Shalom, a lawyer with New Jersey's American Civil Liberties Union, agreed. Courts have given schools the authority to punish out-of-school behavior only when it substantially disrupts the school day, like threatening a classmate on Twitter.

    And before disciplining students, they must show the off-campus speech or behavior is truly disruptive. They can't just say, we got a phone call, and somebody was upset.

    Even if these Lacey High kids had been breaking the law - smoking marijuana, say, or drinking underage - their school still doesn't have the right to police them off-campus. "The bottom line is, schools are in charge of kids when they're in school, and not in charge of kids when they're not," Shalom said.
  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
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    What's your point? That a school may or may not have punished students for shooting legally at a gun range? If they did punish them, that's fucked up unless there's more to the story that we don't know about, such as using the message to threaten someone.
  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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    2001400ex said:

    What's your point? That a school may or may not have punished students for shooting legally at a gun range? If they did punish them, that's fucked up unless there's more to the story that we don't know about, such as using the message to threaten someone.

    Yore catching on.
  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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    I had a larger point about the ACLU not being involved. Then I got woked AF and saw they did at least make a statement on it and credited them for it. I know they were waiting for the Grundle Endorsement.

    That school district ultimately did the right thing in changing their shithead policy and not discussing disciplinary matters of a minor with the press. But they were also shady AF with the way they did it, in not announcing the change in policy, but just slipping it in like it'd been there the hole tim.

    In the end, if the letter from the classmate saying the two in question were suspended is false; or if the suspensions under the shithead original policy were vacated, then it's a nontroversy in the narrow sense of that one particular incident in New Jersey.

    However, I'm going to be read my kids' school handbook for anything similar.
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