Play Prop Gets Student In Trouble
Just when you think schools can't get any more stupid, they go and prove me wrong. A student has been suspended for walking thru the school w/ a plastic gun (it was a play prop). Where this gets really stupid is that the gun in question is being used by the student in a school play thats being rehearsed in the school auditorium.
The "prop" Mark Ott admits to taking out of Lincolnway's Auditorium is a plastic gun. He had a small part playing the role of a "police officer" in the school play. Ott says he forgot he had the gun tucked into the waistband of his pants when he left rehearsal to take a bathroom break. "He left the washroom to go back into the auditorium and had the gun in his hand, visible hanging down at his side in his hand," said Wyllie. At least one adult saw -- what appeared to be a real gun -- called school administrators who in turn called police. After a two-hour search of the school, the fake gun was found right where it belonged on the prop table in the auditorium.
And he ends up getting suspended for 5 days, and banned from being in or attending the play ... and in his school file, the reason for his suspension is cited as "possession of a look-a-like firearm." I wonder if it also says that the look-a-like firearm was actually school property that had been lent to the student. Doubtful.
The "prop" Mark Ott admits to taking out of Lincolnway's Auditorium is a plastic gun. He had a small part playing the role of a "police officer" in the school play. Ott says he forgot he had the gun tucked into the waistband of his pants when he left rehearsal to take a bathroom break. "He left the washroom to go back into the auditorium and had the gun in his hand, visible hanging down at his side in his hand," said Wyllie. At least one adult saw -- what appeared to be a real gun -- called school administrators who in turn called police. After a two-hour search of the school, the fake gun was found right where it belonged on the prop table in the auditorium.
And he ends up getting suspended for 5 days, and banned from being in or attending the play ... and in his school file, the reason for his suspension is cited as "possession of a look-a-like firearm." I wonder if it also says that the look-a-like firearm was actually school property that had been lent to the student. Doubtful.
# | November 21, 2002