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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 30, 2005 18:43:18 GMT -5
Florida boy accused of assault with rubber band
13-year-old suspended 10 days after confrontation with teacher WKMG Local 6
A 13-year-old student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school over an alleged assault with a rubber band, according to a WKMG Local 6 News report.
Robert Gomez, a seventh-grader at Liberty Middle School, said he picked up a rubber band at school and slipped it on his wrist.
Gomez said when his science teacher demanded the rubber band, the student said he tossed it on her desk.
After the incident, Gomez received a 10-day suspension for threatening his teacher with what administrators say was a weapon, Local 6 News reported.
"They said if he would have aimed it a little more and he would have gotten it closer to her face he would have hit her in the eye," mother Jenette Rojas said.
Rojas said she was shocked to learn that her son was being punished for a Level 4 offense -- the highest Level at the school. Other violations that also receive level 4 punishment include arson, assault and battery, bomb threats and explosives, according to the Code of Student Conduct.
The district said a Level 4 offense includes the use of any object or instrument used to make a threat or inflict harm, including a rubber band.
Rojas plans to fight the ruling but her son still faces expulsion.
"It's ridiculous, it's a rubber band," Rojas said.
The school's principal could not comment because the case is still under investigation.
A district spokesman said there is still a series of meetings the district will have before Gomez is officially expelled.
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Post by bsutravis on Dec 31, 2005 6:08:14 GMT -5
WOW! Thank God he didn't make a spit-ball! They would have called out SWAT!
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Post by cambygsp on Dec 31, 2005 7:13:13 GMT -5
My guess is that this kid is a "problem child"...........
If he flicked the rubberband AT the teacher...or anything other than politely handing it to her when she asked for it....he should have had his butt beaten!
The worst thing schools have ever done is quit WHACKING these kids.
I got "hit" with the "board of education" more times than I care to remember..... But it got my attention real quick!!!!
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Jan 3, 2006 10:01:17 GMT -5
I gotta agree with you cambygsp, "PAIN" is a great deterrent. I got 3 deserving wacks by our big ole principal that actually lifted me off of the floor & drove my head into his office door 3 times. Man those wacks hurt plumb to the bone, and made me think twice before I engaged in futher stupid activities @ school. And to add insult to injury, I received a deserved encore performance by my dad with the leather when I got home. Ah, the joys of painful lessons learned in our youth.
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Post by jstalljon on Jan 3, 2006 10:20:42 GMT -5
My dad used to keep a horse brush in his top dresser drawer....and we didn't keep horses in the house! OUCH!!! I still winse from time to time on that one!
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Post by Decatur on Jan 3, 2006 14:52:30 GMT -5
I agree he probably is a juvenile delinquent, but come a news story give me as break!
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Post by parrothead on Jan 5, 2006 11:29:10 GMT -5
I agree. I had a 5th grader arrested 2 years ago for throwing and hitting me with and eraser. Assult and battery. They cuffed him right in my room.
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Post by mbogo on Jan 5, 2006 11:50:59 GMT -5
Wow, that all sounds a little ridiculous to me given the little that is known about the situation. Then again while I was in high school, one of my teachers armed my whole class with rubber bands marched us down the hall and into another teacher's class room. Once there we formed a firing squad and on orders opened fire on the other teacher. It was the target teachers 45th birthday and both teachers were good friends, but I'm still glad my "Super Deadly Assault" band was a little off the mark.
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