50 Hard boiled eggs

Today my son Matthew was suspended for a day for bringing a spent rifle shell to school. Linda had called me and I spoke to the principal about it. I was proud that he brought it  in to school. He got it at the 4th of July when the VFW did a rifle salute to the flag. He held his hand over his heart and said the pledge of allegiance - proudly as if it were the lords prayer.  I was fuming. I told Linda to pull him from school and take him to Mc Donalds.  The school has a zero tolerance policy. I understand knives and guns. Real guns and knives. As a kid I was given my scout knife at the school..... My father asked me what if it was a real unshot round/bullet. I told him the the school should see that there is no bullet , powder or any thing the any one could be hurt with. Outside of him whipping at them.  It was an empty brass tube.

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This was the original letter I sent to my friends about Matthews 2nd grade suspension. You brought in a spent shell from a blank from the 4th of July Celebration at Cerny Park. Your family, my friends and every one at my work agree it was a bullshit call and you did nothing wrong. I'm going to post some of the other comments my friends put on this to show you how much we love you and how you did nothing wrong.
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You're lucky they didn't go all Clock Work Orange on him.  I think they would have  been more lenient with him if he wasn't one of the notorious Garza Boyz. 

Did you explain that he's the God Son of noted Naperville Industrialist Hector Villarreal?  That would have gotten him expelled for sure.

Good for you telling Linda to take him to Mickey D's.  Just cuz the school system is stupid doesn't mean he did anything wrong. 

H

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A full day in the box?  Mathew can do that standing on his head after eating 50 hard boiled eggs.  It's still bullshit but  the kid can handle it cuz he knows you and Linda have his back.  That's the most any parent can do for their kid.

 

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Yeah- and I have to deal with the jackass kids that you have to tell to stand up for the pledge some days, and most don't even say the pledge or do the hand over their heart for it. We can't make them, but it annoys the crap out of me. We did have a kid (most other students say he was one of the top students at the school) get expelled from school for making a statement along the lines of "I could come in and shoot everyone" one day. Now it's the kids who actually might do it that are sneaky enough not to say it out loud that we should worry about.

And while I understand the idea of the rule at Matt's school, you have to allow common sense to be applied in situations like this. That should be the point of having a principal there to make these decisions otherwise you could just have a machine repeating "Suspension. Suspension. Suspension..."

-Geo

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I cannot believe they suspended him-but of course our school wouldve done the same-is he upset?

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He was upset because he didnt understand what he did wrong.  I came home and sat in a chair and told him over and over that I was not mad at him at all and it a mistake.... Thats what upset me...

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I understand the principle of zero tollerence. Guns , knives , actual loaded bullets.... but this was just bullshit.

I love you boys and I always will....

Dad