Student forced to undergo five-hour physical and psychological evaluation
Mikael Thalen
Infowars.com
April 6, 2014
A 13-year-old boy in Vernon, New Jersey was suspended from school last week after being accused of holding his pencil like a gun.
Ethan Chaplin, a seventh-grade student at Glen Meadow Middle School, was twirling his pencil in math class when a fellow student suddenly yelled out, “He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie!”
Ethan was immediately taken to the principal’s office, suspended, and told he would not be able to return to school until he passed a psychological evaluation.
“I was shocked because I’m like, how am I not going to come back to school? I didn’t even do anything,” Ethan told News 12.
Despite telling school administrators that his classmate had been bullying him and was simply attempting to get him in trouble, Ethan says his comments were completely ignored.
When questioned, Vernon Schools Superintendent Charles Maranzano stood by the principal’s decision, insinuating that Ethan could be plotting a violent attack against his school.
“We never know what’s percolating in the minds of children,” Maranzano said. “And when they demonstrate behaviors that raise red flags, we must do our duty.”
Michael Chaplin, Ethan’s father, was just as shocked by the school’s handling of the situation.
“I’m absolutely livid,” Michael said. “I think it’s gross misconduct at its finest. They took something so minimal and took it so far over the edge.”
Speaking with Infowars, Michael detailed his son’s horrific experience during the five-hour long physical and psychological evaluation.
“The child was stripped, had to give blood samples (which caused him to pass out) and urine samples for of all things drug testing,” Michael said. “Then four hours later a social worker spoke to him for five minutes and cleared him. Then an actual doctor came in and said the state was 100 percent incorrect in their procedure and this would not get him back in school.”
According to Michael, the school has since scheduled a meeting regarding his son’s return for Monday morning.
Ethan’s story is yet another example of innocent children being targeted for completely mundane behavior. In multiple cases, young students have been suspended for simply having items that resemble the shape of a firearm.
A 7-year-old child from Maryland was suspended last year for allegedly chewing a “Pop Tart” breakfast pastry into the shape of a handgun.
A 6-year-old Massachusetts boy was given detention and forced to write an apology letter to fellow students last year after bringing a plastic Lego gun, the size of a quarter, onto his school bus.
Just last month, a fifth-grade student from Ohio was suspended for three days after shaping his fingers like a gun. The child was accused of brandishing a “level 2 lookalike firearm” by the school’s principal.
Quick – ban all the electric drills in wood and metal shop because they look like large pistols!
As I understand it wood and metal shop classes were disposed of some time ago.
I’ve heard that too. It’s a shame, it’s like they expect everyone is going to be a liberal arts “professional” and we don’t need anyone who knows how things work or how to repair and maintain them.
If I were a young guy today I’d take a good trade any day of the week, I know lots of folks who do very well for themselves with HVAC, plumbing, auto repair, as an electrician, etc.
Pity the kids. Psychologically abused by the the unionized thug thought police for 6 or more hours a day. All that is missing is barbed wire and German Shepherds.
Did you see what the poor things are eating in school lunch these days?
Dinners from Death Row – Obamagruel
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/michelle-obama-school-lunches-in-pictures-is-that-photo-taken-from-death-row_04082014
Two Minutes of Hate against David Icke, Ron Paul, Alex Jones – I Love Dear Leader Barack, and Big Brother Gov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTbrcg3mkZs
Typical response of the Red state/Blue State NLPD.
N.L.P.D.: Non-Libertarian Police Department. Law enforcement in America, brought to you by liberals and conservatives:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/nlpd-non-libertarian-police-department/360224/
This is so far down the rabbit hole I’m just sitting here dumbfounded. The student that shouted “..send him to juvie” was obviously trying to get him in trouble and succeeded beyond his wildest dream. I hope the parents of this boy get the best lawyer available and sue the crap out of that school district, make them pay for a private school for their son son, and fire (fat chance of that) the teacher, principle, and any other idiot that thought this was the correct procedure.
The inmates are surely running the asylum.
Good grief!
The public (govt) school system is the most illogical public institution I know of.
Even in the prisons, the guards know the difference between a finger, a pencil, or a pop-tart and an actual item capable of causing physical harm.
I’m so glad my children are not enrolled in public schools.
Our ability to reason, and to correctly assess life situations is what signifies that we have become an adult.
If school superintendents were put on trial, and were required in a courtroom of law, to prove that they have common sense, and can reason……..
Where is there evidence that the school district personnel qualify as adults?
I am SO disgusted by this story, as I was by others, which prove beyond reasonable doubt that “adults” are no longer the majority of those over the age of consent.