Zero-tolerance=Zero brains

[eauclaireliberal]

Columbine Comment Gets Beaver Co. Student Expelled

(KDKA) NEW BRIGHTON An honors student at New Brighton Area High School has been expelled after a strange set of circumstances.

At an all-school assembly on Tuesday, a motivational speaker told Corey Johnson he looks like Osama Bin Laden.

Johnson says he was teased about it for two straight days, and finally snapped, saying if he were Osama he'd have pulled a “Columbine” – referring to a deadly school shooting at Columbine High School.

A teacher overheard the statement and the school expelled him.

Johnson may not graduate in June and he was forbidden from attending tonight’s prom.

The school board will make the final decision on whether Johnson will be kicked out of school for good.

The school does have a zero tolerance-policy.

[valerief]

1. That's what happens when you think with your *gut* instead of

your brains.

Stupid ninnies running that school.

[ComerPerro]

13. But didn't you know that your gut has more nerve endings than your brain?

I know that, I looked it up.

I looked it up in my gut.

[sweetheart]

16. Body smart

body knows a thing

[BlooInBloo]

2. I agree with the subject line, but I didn't realize that TEACHERS....

... had the power to EXPEL anyone...

It's a power they shouldn't have, imo - too close to the situation n all....

[eauclaireliberal]

5. "A teacher overheard the statement...

...and the school expelled him.

I missed that part the first I saw this article too.

[BlooInBloo]

8. gotcha - thx!

[jdelullo]

3. I sorta understand

I might have shyed away from those words in particular, but to be embarrassed in front of all his friends by a motivational speaker would really piss me off too. Most motivational speakers suck.

[AX10]

4. Motivational "Speakers" are pure trash.

Smary and lowly hucksters. I can't stand any of them. The kid should have filed a law suit against the pig and the school system for having this SOB come and speak.

[eauclaireliberal]

7. Think Dr. Phil

What as assclown that tub of lard is. Motivational speakers are losers who couldn't get a TV show.

As for "Dr." Phil, the putz is a lawyer, specifically Oprah's. That fact alone must have reminded him that he is a unequivocal bullshit artist.

[sendero]

6. Everywhere you look..

... folks are trying to abdicate their responsibility to have a brain in favor of having a handbook.

[niyad]

9. I want to know why that idiot "motivational speaker" or whatever the HELL

he was, was not immediately removed from the stage when he said that to the young man. or why he wasn't roundly booed from the audience (which is what I would have done, had I been forced to attend anything that stupid)

(and wasn't it something "motivational" that was the justification for the BS about spanking and diapers, etc, at the CA company?)

[NMMNG]

10. Nice

Schools aren't allowed to have programs and events to teach tolerance of gays, but they can have events where speakers compare students' appearances to those of hated terrorists. :wtf:

[ForrestGump]

11. I think your subject line says it all

That is insane.

Typical blanket, arbitrary overreaction by bureaucratic functionaries with no apparent independent cognitive ability.

The kid's probably better off expelled from a school run by fruitcakes like that.

What the hell...

[eauclaireliberal]

12. RE: I think your subject line says it all

If this kid is as smart as the article claims (honor student), then he can count on a good future in college, despite being ruled by a bunch of reactionary retards running his high school.

Me, I would have waited in the parking lot for the "motivational apeaker" with a tire iron.

[ComerPerro]

14. He looks like Osama???? WTF???

What kind of person would even say that?

[eauclaireliberal]

15. One who lives in a van down by the river?

"

[ComerPerro]

17. LMAO