National Two NJ high school students suspended for going to gun range after school

[IOM]

This is getting out of control...


Lacey Township School District in central New Jersey reportedly suspended two high school students after Snapchat pictures showed them at a gun range outside of school hours.

Attorney Daniel Schmutter with the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs said a lawsuit might be pending since the pictures were non-threatening and not alarming in any way. The two students were simply at a gun range after school hours.

Schmutter indicated in a letter to Lacey Township School District that suspending the two students for posting photos off school grounds and unrelated to school activities was a "very serious violation" of the their rights, according to Patch.com. The students were allegedly received a five-day in-school suspension.

The school district denied the claims that it suspended the two students.

"Information posted on social media is incorrect," Lacey Superintendent Craig Wigley said, Fox News reported. But officials did not elaborate on why the posts were "incorrect."

The controversy brought the attention of a New Jersey gun advocacy group that sent the school district a cease and desist letter and threatened with a lawsuit if it does not overturn the suspension of the students and change the policies regarding the Second Amendment.

After the incident, the "straight A" students returned to school but were not permitted to go to class, Schmutter said, according to Patch.com.

Lacey Township School District follows the Safe Schools Initiative and the Zero Tolerance for Guns Act. Their own policy enforces zero-tolerance policy for any students who have weapons in their possession, on or off school grounds, according to Patch.com.

"These are top-quality kids. It's astonishing what they have done to these kids," Schumuter said.

The students might have faced a possible one-year suspension, according to Schmutter.

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Our generation needs to keep their digital social status up to date. Maybe they should drop the social media and ignore the domestic enemies

 

[awshoot]

Our generation needs to keep their digital social status up to date. Maybe they should drop the social media and ignore the domestic enemies

While that is good advice because of all the ways social media postings can affect a person's interactions with private entities (the most obvious being jobs and hiring), a government agency prohibiting postings about legal activity and administering consequences for such postings, is a 1st Amendment violation and I don't think we should be training kids that the Bill of Rights has no value.

 

[nammac]

Welcome to the federal government controlled nanny state of public education. If one doesn't want to play the game, there's immediate alternatives of private school or home school.

Long term, communities must regain control of their local education system, because different communities have different values. It's important to get conservatives and constitutionality's on the local school boards. It's the only hope...

As for this incident, it's none of the schools f&@king business. They need to clean up their own house of illegal drugs in the schools, that's a problem... One they won't address...

And agreed, drop the social media addiction. Learn the art of face to face conversation and communications...

 

[SUPER X]

This is getting out of control...


Lacey Township School District in central New Jersey reportedly suspended two high school students after Snapchat pictures showed them at a gun range outside of school hours.

Attorney Daniel Schmutter with the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs said a lawsuit might be pending since the pictures were non-threatening and not alarming in any way. The two students were simply at a gun range after school hours.

Schmutter indicated in a letter to Lacey Township School District that suspending the two students for posting photos off school grounds and unrelated to school activities was a "very serious violation" of the their rights, according to Patch.com. The students were allegedly received a five-day in-school suspension.

The school district denied the claims that it suspended the two students.

"Information posted on social media is incorrect," Lacey Superintendent Craig Wigley said, Fox News reported. But officials did not elaborate on why the posts were "incorrect."

The controversy brought the attention of a New Jersey gun advocacy group that sent the school district a cease and desist letter and threatened with a lawsuit if it does not overturn the suspension of the students and change the policies regarding the Second Amendment.

After the incident, the "straight A" students returned to school but were not permitted to go to class, Schmutter said, according to Patch.com.

Lacey Township School District follows the Safe Schools Initiative and the Zero Tolerance for Guns Act. Their own policy enforces zero-tolerance policy for any students who have weapons in their possession, on or off school grounds, according to Patch.com.

"These are top-quality kids. It's astonishing what they have done to these kids," Schumuter said.

The students might have faced a possible one-year suspension, according to Schmutter.

What they do when not in school is None of the schools Business

 

[3MTA3]

The story broke back in March, so it isn't new. The school backed down after legal action was threatened, so folks like snopes can claim the story was false.

IMO there should be a "range day" protest where students (along with their parents) get free range time to show their support for the 2A. Let these morons know just how many of us there are and that we don't take their bubblegum lightly.

 

[SUPER X]

The story broke back in March, so it isn't new. The school backed down after legal action was threatened, so folks like snopes can claim the story was false.

IMO there should be a "range day" protest where students (along with their parents) get free range time to show their support for the 2A. Let these morons know just how many of us there are and that we don't take their bubblegum lightly.

I think some news is recycled on the net

 

[3MTA3]

I think some news is recycled on the net

It's still good to bring attention to these atrocities

 

[Lilhigbee]

Old news or new, we need a zero-tolerance policy for stupidity. The administrator(s) responsible should be immediately fired, stripped of their retirement and NEVER allowed to hold a government job again. Using their authority to trample the rights of others should have serious repercussions.

 

[3MTA3]

Old news or new, we need a zero-tolerance policy for stupidity. The administrator(s) responsible should be immediately fired, stripped of their retirement and NEVER allowed to hold a government job again. Using their authority to trample the rights of others should have serious repercussions.

I agree wholeheartedly. There was a recall underway, but I don't know if it ever got any traction.