Wow. How was your first week on the job?

My son's fiance was hired by a school system in a very rich end of town (to be nameless). Rich people don't want crazy kids so each school has at least one child psychyatrist on the clock.

School bus gets in a fender bender, she has to ride the bus with a first grader because he is traumatized and won't get on the bus.

School nurse gets arrested for stealing controlled stuff out of the school nurse's office.

Fourth grader comes to school with a hand grenade, OK it for practice only, hollow and made of cast iron but you understand their concern. Lock down, cops, all kinds of activity. Luckily he displayed the thing to his friends after school, otherwise you may be hearing about it on the national news. The kid's father threatens to "storm the school" because you put my kid in the back of a cop car.

Can't wait to see what the high schoolers offer for entertainment.

914Driver wrote: Fourth grader comes to school with a hand grenade, OK it for practice only, hollow and made of cast iron but you understand their concern.

I'd have soooo gone to jail. Hell, I have one of those on my desk right now.

Skaneateles? Fayetteville-Manlius? (just curious, PM if I'm close...)

I dunno, after the list of what the kids were up to, I can sorta understand what the school nurse was up to...

I had a friend who had to organize campus security reports at an Ivy League college.

The first week she had a nudist flute playing stalker and a guy who after being bitten by the porcupine once while trying to pick it up, decided a second attempt was an ivy league level idea.

What sort of asshattery leads a cop to take an 8yr old out of school in the back of a cruiser for a fake hand grenade? Once you figure out its hollow - aren't you really just breaking his stones for bringing a toy to school?

All the cub scouts in my 3rd grade class had pocket knives on Wednesdays. Can you imagine - they would have needed a SWAT team to take us all down! 15 armed kids wearin' a uniform with colored scarves would be considered "gang related" now.

Tom Heath wrote:

914Driver wrote: Fourth grader comes to school with a hand grenade, OK it for practice only, hollow and made of cast iron but you understand their concern.

I'd have soooo gone to jail. Hell, I have one of those on my desk right now. Skaneateles? Fayetteville-Manlius? (just curious, PM if I'm close...)

Skaneatles? Where did you learn that word? I,m guessing White Plains, buncha wackos down there.

TRoglodyte wrote:

Tom Heath wrote:

914Driver wrote: Fourth grader comes to school with a hand grenade, OK it for practice only, hollow and made of cast iron but you understand their concern.

I'd have soooo gone to jail. Hell, I have one of those on my desk right now. Skaneateles? Fayetteville-Manlius? (just curious, PM if I'm close...)

Skaneatles? Where did you learn that word? I,m guessing White Plains, buncha wackos down there.

Suburbs of Syracuse. This end of the state is big on Indian names, ie. Tonawanda, Gowanda, Cheektowaga. I think Ian and girlfriend live downstate, in the Apple.

About 45 minutes into the first day on the job in a leadership position I had in the past, I had two ladies arguing over a stapler, which escalated to yelling and throwing things at each other, and climaxed with one lady biting the other. I didnt have authority to discipline employees, only observe and report, so I tried to report to my immediate manager, who was off site on a coffee break - nextel off. So I went over her head, to her manager, who was not in the office that day either. So I went over her head to the site director, who said he didnt have time for that, and said I needed to handle it.

An adult biting an adult is assault, So I called the authorities and they both got silver bracelets and a free ride downtown. All my superiors had wanted to do it in the past, as these 2 were constantly at each other over something, I just happened to be the (un)lucky bastard who was there when it finally turned physical.

I shoot at my co workers when they piss me off.

Ok, so it's only a nerf gun, but still. It's a MODIFIED nerf gun, that sumbitch HURTS!

Follow the lead of Austin, Texas:

http://www.policeone.com/juvenile-crime/articles/3165901-With-more-police-in-schools-Texas-kids-get-more-tickets/

Or, let the parents apply swift justice to an offender's bottom-end.

Waiting for the corporal-punishment-is-bad-and-supporters-should-be-jailed responses.

oldsaw wrote: Follow the lead of Austin, Texas: http://www.policeone.com/juvenile-crime/articles/3165901-With-more-police-in-schools-Texas-kids-get-more-tickets/ Or, let the parents apply swift justice to an offender's bottom-end. Waiting for the corporal-punishment-is-bad-and-supporters-should-be-jailed responses.

You have got to be kidding. That is the biggest bunch of malarkey I have ever read. I thought Texas knew better than that. Then again it is Austin. I guess every state has something to be embarrassed about.

Would that be Saratoga or Ballston ?

Schools are really paranoid about such things. Kid had a rifle in a locked truck in the parking lot and got busted. And there are some that are even silly.

Tom Heath wrote:

914Driver wrote: Fourth grader comes to school with a hand grenade, OK it for practice only, hollow and made of cast iron but you understand their concern.

I'd have soooo gone to jail. Hell, I have one of those on my desk right now. Skaneateles? Fayetteville-Manlius? (just curious, PM if I'm close...)

Yeah I remember taking a similar training grenade to school when I was in third or fourth grade.

Heck in 9th grade I was taking a Vietnam studies course and did a presentation on weapons used on both sides of the conflict. I took both an AR-15 and an AK-47 to school to show the differences between the two weapons.

minimac wrote:

TRoglodyte wrote:

Tom Heath wrote:

914Driver wrote: Fourth grader comes to school with a hand grenade, OK it for practice only, hollow and made of cast iron but you understand their concern.

I'd have soooo gone to jail. Hell, I have one of those on my desk right now. Skaneateles? Fayetteville-Manlius? (just curious, PM if I'm close...)

Skaneatles? Where did you learn that word? I,m guessing White Plains, buncha wackos down there.

Suburbs of Syracuse. This end of the state is big on Indian names, ie. Tonawanda, Gowanda, Cheektowaga. I think Ian and girlfriend live downstate, in the Apple.

LOL I grew up in Tonawanda. The Town of Tonawanda to be specific, not to be confused with neighboring North Tonawanda or the City of Tonawanda (all Buffalo 'burbs).

I had two ladies arguing over a stapler, which escalated to yelling and throwing things at each other, and climaxed with one lady biting the other

You don't want to know how I read that

All the words were there, but not in that order.

Toyman01 wrote:

oldsaw wrote: Follow the lead of Austin, Texas: http://www.policeone.com/juvenile-crime/articles/3165901-With-more-police-in-schools-Texas-kids-get-more-tickets/ Or, let the parents apply swift justice to an offender's bottom-end. Waiting for the corporal-punishment-is-bad-and-supporters-should-be-jailed responses.

You have got to be kidding. That is the biggest bunch of malarkey I have ever read. I thought Texas knew better than that. Then again it is Austin. I guess every state has something to be embarrassed about.

When I lived in SC they did a story on the news about a child who got corporal punishment from the schools principal. Apparently, The law was on the books that if you did NOT want your kid hit by a teacher or principal you had to send in a note requesting him/her to not hit your little one... I wish I could remember the town.. Ughhh..

rebelgtp wrote: Heck in 9th grade I was taking a Vietnam studies course and did a presentation on weapons used on both sides of the conflict. I took both an AR-15 and an AK-47 to school to show the differences between the two weapons.

That would get you in jail quick in my hometown. I used to do civil war reenacting and when we would go to do presentations to students at schools we had to get permission from the local cops to walk on the school grounds with a enfield. There were stories of reenactors being tossed in jail because they came to do paid talks at schools but did not get the proper permits.

My brother lives in Manlius. I always thought it was a fun name.

Times have changed. I used to bring my shotgun to school so I could go duck hunting before school with my history teacher. I'm thinking that might not be acceptable any more.

In reply to Streetwiseguy:

At my university it is not uncommon for students to have their shotguns and rifles in their trucks. Many come into class directly from coming in from the field hunting, even some of the teachers.

Ignorant wrote:

Toyman01 wrote:

oldsaw wrote: Follow the lead of Austin, Texas: http://www.policeone.com/juvenile-crime/articles/3165901-With-more-police-in-schools-Texas-kids-get-more-tickets/ Or, let the parents apply swift justice to an offender's bottom-end. Waiting for the corporal-punishment-is-bad-and-supporters-should-be-jailed responses.

You have got to be kidding. That is the biggest bunch of malarkey I have ever read. I thought Texas knew better than that. Then again it is Austin. I guess every state has something to be embarrassed about.

When I lived in SC they did a story on the news about a child who got corporal punishment from the schools principal. Apparently, The law was on the books that if you did NOT want your kid hit by a teacher or principal you had to send in a note requesting him/her to not hit your little one... I wish I could remember the town.. Ughhh..

Ig, my first ten years of ejimacation occurred sixty miles east of where you are now. My only exposure to corporal punishment was personal or what my friends and aquaintances experienced; never saw or heard any evidence of it at school.

A transplant to the south revealed a whole 'nother concept of classroom discipline! High school kids sent to the principal's office didn't go there for milk and cookies; I guess a few swats were more humiliating.

Things were different then, and more so now.............

Re-reading this entire thread I can only come to the conclusion that 4cylndrfury has the most interesting workplace. Adult bitings never happen where I work.

oldsaw wrote: Follow the lead of Austin, Texas: http://www.policeone.com/juvenile-crime/articles/3165901-With-more-police-in-schools-Texas-kids-get-more-tickets/ Or, let the parents apply swift justice to an offender's bottom-end. Waiting for the corporal-punishment-is-bad-and-supporters-should-be-jailed responses.

Notice that the study in that article was done by a "non-profit law advocate" type of group and determine that since black children are only 30% of school enrollment but they received 62% of the "tickets" then the schools must be racists.

I once had a 427ci Chevy engine that had a "Team Tonawanda" sticker on it. The Big Apple is a never ending source of amusement.

TRoglodyte wrote: I once had a 427ci Chevy engine that had a "Team Tonawanda" sticker on it. The Big Apple is a never ending source of amusement.

That's because it was built there at GM's Tonawanda Engine Plant - where more than 70 million engines have been built since the late 30s.