School massacre narrowly averted........
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The Daily Southerner
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The Daily Southerner
TARBORO — A W.A. Pattillo School student was found in possession of an unloaded Air Soft Pistol BB gun on campus Thursday.
Following a tip received by school officials Wednesday after school hours, Assistant Principal Rachel Mills apprehended a student as the child exited the bus at school Thurday morning.
The student was then taken directly into isolation where Principal Ronda Sortino searched the child's backpack where the weapon was found.
Sortino then contacted the child's parents, along with the Tarboro Police Department.
Edgecombe County Public Schools is not at liberty to reveal the details of disciplinary actions administered to individual students.
However, possession or use of a firearm on a school campus is prohibited by Board of Education policies as well as state and federal laws.
The school district notified all Pattillo parents and staff using ConnectED, the automated phone calling system to keep them informed and to help everyone understand the serious nature of bringing a gun onto a school campus.
The message to parents restated the Edgecombe school district’s commitment to maintaining safe and orderly schools. In addition, the administration asks parents and community members to help in the following ways:
• Review the Code of Student Conduct with students and discuss the importance of good behavior at school, as well as on school buses.
• Help students understand the consequences for misbehaving and/or violating the law.
• Talk frequently with young people and their friends about what they are hearing and seeing at school or in the neighborhood.
• Check students’ backpacks and pockets each day and make sure they are bringing to school only those items that belong here.
Encourage students and their friends to report any threats or suspicious activity to a teacher or another trusted adult. Reports may be called in directly to a school office, to the Superintendent’s Office at 641-2600 or the Crime Stoppers Anonymous Hotline at 977-1111.
"However, possession or use of a firearm on a school campus is prohibited by Board of Education policies as well as state and federal laws."
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def of firearm: a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder —usually used of small arms
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Hmmm.... An Airsoft pistol being considered a firearm is a bit of a stretch, eh? :)
We used to keep shotguns in our vehicles at school in order to go pheasant hunting after class...
Times have changed, my friend.
Unloaded also. & yup, how's a boy supposed to go deer hunting before school if he can't leave his gun in his truck afterwards.?:)
ReplyDeleteHow true Brock. I remember back in HS days, if someone got a new deer rifle, hell the ag teacher would take us all out to look at it and we would make comparisons of it to ours.
ReplyDeleteSad,back when when things were normal.
ReplyDeleteWe have become a P state. Everyone knows what I am talking about. If you don't; you have not been paying attention.
ReplyDeleteThe other wording for it is Nanny State. Freedom isn't free. Where are the men? Having seen any in many years.