Two Riverside students suspended for taking snowballs to school

[Kadie]

Two Riverside students suspended for taking snowballs to school

Friday, February 24, 2006


(02-24) 10:53 PST Riverside, Calif. (AP) --


Two Ramona High School students were suspended for bringing dangerous objects to school — snowballs.


Seniors Michael Sepulveda and Daniel Zavala, the snowball co-conspirators, made a pre-dawn run to the San Bernardino Mountains to fill their pickup trucks with snow and bring it to school for what they hoped would turn into an annual "bring Big Bear to Riverside" ritual.


They were suspended after a school parking lot snowball fight before the start of classes Thursday.


Principal Mike Neece said one of his most important responsibilities is maintaining a safe, orderly learning environment.


"Anything that disturbs that or disrupts that is inappropriate on a school campus," Neece said. "Anything that could cause injury, or could cause a student to get upset and instigate a fight, or damage students' personal property is just inappropriate behavior."

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[LostinVA]

1. Okay, dumb. Have a talk to them, warn them, MAYBE even

a one day in-school detention. But detention? Come on -- lighten up.

Geez. Administrators.

What do the DU teachers think about this? proud2, etc.?

[stellanoir]

2. WMD's WMD's WMD's

I swear. They wallop one with a hell of a chill.

Sheesh

[Burried News]

3. Whut we have heeaahh is a failyaa to kommunikkate.

[VOX]

4. When does * publicly announce that an Al Qaeda attack was foiled?

This one was close, ladies and gentlemen -- snowballs!! :scared:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. I'm okay with the suspension

it was a prank and merits suspension for a couple of days. Nothing more than that, however. No expulsion or anything like that.

You get suspended in my district for any kind of fight, so I guess snowballs count!

But the school should get creative and get into the act and maybe have a snowball event sometime after school or whatever. Sign waivers or risk management will have a heart attack!!

Actually, our school district is pretty much run by risk management.

tg

[SoCalDem]

6. Yikes.. I would have gone to prison for what we did as a prank

We had a lazy ole janitor who used to sleep in his office (in the boiler room)..

the drama dept was just down the hall, and we used spray cans like crazy.. paint and spray on hair color).. we would save the empty cans until we had a bunch..we were always bringing stuff to the boiler room and tossing broken down set materials and worn out props to be disposed of.. we just used the metal handle thing and tossed them into the incinerator..he rarely even woke up when we went in.. Every so often we would toss in a grocery sack full of aerosol cans and peek aound the corner to watch him jump out of his chair when they exploded in the incinderator.. he would look up and then chase us down the hall yelling at us to stop doing that :)

Nowadays, they would call in HS and accuse us of trying to blow up the school :scared:

[rpgamerd00d]

7. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON CONSERVATISM. Any Questions?

What dumbasses.

[Sequoia]

8. Stupid adult.

Snowballs!!!! Yep, those terrorist might get a hold of them so watch out.

[ThomCat]

9. Snowballs are dangerous?

If they were throwing ice around I could see it, but snowballs?

This is the most gawd-awefull stupid thing I've heard of any school doing in at least the last few hours.

Geez.

[dflprincess]

10. Only when they're more ice than snow or

if you're a really mean kid and put stones in the middle of them (there was a bully on my street when I was kid who did this).

Geez, whatever happened to common sense? Anyone see Letterman the night he kept throwing snowballs at his announcer, following the logic of this school, he should be fined by the FCC for violence.

[TlalocW]

11. Archie or Jughead should have talked them out of it

Oh, sorry, that's Riverdale.

My Dad, born in 1927, was expelled from school in 8th grade because he and another friend locked the principal out of the building and then pelted him with snowballs. If he had apologized, like his friend, he could have been let back in, but for whatever reason, he didn't.

TlalocW

[Javaman]

12. When I was 13 I got a referral for participating in a snowball fight

on school grounds during lunch time.

I held that grudge until graduated, then I found the teacher and called him an asshole. :) He couldn't do a thing to me. And it felt really good.

actually, still does 30 years later. LOL