Teen who loves Middle Ages fights for yearbook photo

[Victor Galis]

You can still ban those. Gaming conventions which allow people to walk around with swords, axes, halberds, etc. sometimes ban all (even non-functioning) projectile weapons.

[Deity Dude]

PC gone insane at it usually does.

When my son when was in 1st grade he had to wrirte a fictional story. The winning story would be acted out by a group of traveling actors that do that sort of thing. Anyways, at one point in the story he talks about a squirt gun that shoots candy syrup to children.

As part of the project the class voted and he was chosen to be one of 2 stories to be acted out. Needless to say he was very proud. A couple days later he was told not only wouldn't his story be acted out, but that he had failed the assignment because he used a forbidden word. "gun"

Eventually after protest with the principal and a threat to take it to the school board a compromise was reached where he would be allowed to either remove the offensive word form his paper or rewrite the entire story altogether but still be inelegible for the acting contest He rewrote it.

Although my wife and I found the compromise ridiculous we didn't want to put him thru a bunch of crap to basically advance our point.

If you don't believe me contact the Wayne/Westland School District in Westland Michigan.

[Zkribbler]

On the other hand, my friend's 4th grade son was given an assignment to make a [wooden] spear or sword. When the assignment was complete, all the 4th graders would bring their weapons to school and stab a teddy bear to death.

When my friend complained that having a bunch of 4th-graders toting pointed weapons around school was not a good idea, the teacher told him that she'd been handing out that assignment for years, and he was the first parent to complain.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
On the other hand, my friend's 4th grade son was given an assignment to make a [wooden] spear or sword. When the assignment was complete, all the 4th graders would bring their weapons to school and stab a teddy bear to death.

When my friend complained that having a bunch of 4th-graders toting pointed weapons around school was not a good idea, the teacher told him that she'd been handing out that assignment for years, and he was the first parent to complain.

wow. just wow. I never did anything like that.

But my elementary school decided it would be a good field trip to visit some Las Vegas Showgirls at a casino. And one even had some topless photos of herself on the wall of her dressing room. best field trip ever.

to irresponsible schools. to PC nonsense. But stabbing a teddy bear to death.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by self biased


he looks rather dashing in that chainmail hood. i personally know at least half a dozen ladies of negotiable virtue that would gladly ravage him.

Indeed, during my SCA days even I was ravaged a few times. This was probably only due to extremely poor lighting and way to much wine though...

[SlowwHand]

I saw a comment about NRA, which has nothing to do with any of this at all.
I really doubt the NRA would advocate taking a gun to school. This is a photograph he wants to submit.

[Dis]

especially since they didn't have rifles in the middle ages.

[Lord Avalon]

Matchlock

[MRT144]

Watch out, he could destroy a tank!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Deity Dude
PC gone insane at it usually does.

When my son when was in 1st grade he had to wrirte a fictional story. The winning story would be acted out by a group of traveling actors that do that sort of thing. Anyways, at one point in the story he talks about a squirt gun that shoots candy syrup to children.

As part of the project the class voted and he was chosen to be one of 2 stories to be acted out. Needless to say he was very proud. A couple days later he was told not only wouldn't his story be acted out, but that he had failed the assignment because he used a forbidden word. "gun"

Eventually after protest with the principal and a threat to take it to the school board a compromise was reached where he would be allowed to either remove the offensive word form his paper or rewrite the entire story altogether but still be inelegible for the acting contest He rewrote it.

Although my wife and I found the compromise ridiculous we didn't want to put him thru a bunch of crap to basically advance our point.

If you don't believe me contact the Wayne/Westland School District in Westland Michigan.

While that is insane, I would suggest (per my previous post) that it's not "PC." PC implies that the motivation for this nonsense is some kind of ideological purity. Nothing could be further from the case. The motivation is making sure that meek, gray, hollow men like these school administrators don't actually have to do something as bold as exercising their own judgment. "But these are the rules!" isn't the cry of the ideologue; it's the cry of the apparatchik.

[Deity Dude]

Well, the people who carry out these tasks are as you say "meek, gray, hollow men ... [who] don't actually have to do something as bold as exercising their own judgment." But the motivation behind it is PC.