If it's on the internet it must be true.

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:31 pm

So there's a video that has been making the rounds the past few days (Youtube, Facebook, Twiiter...):

So the story is that this teacher was a big meanie for taking the microphone away from that child and she should be fired for not even letting him say his line. Now for the real story:

1) She didn't take the microphone out of his hand. She took off the stand. The play was over.

2) That child was not even supposed to be there in the first place. The school had sent a note to his parents three weeks earlier to let them know that if he wanted to participate in the play they needed to sign the permission notice and make sure he attended rehearsals. They never returned the signed form and he never attended a single rehearsal.

3) They just showed up with him at the time of the play and for some unknown reason they had him dressed up as a fucking turkey.

4) He spent the entire time being disruptive and his parents just sat there and laughed about it instead of doing anything to prevent him from ruining the play for all the other children and their parents.

5) The line his parents claim he was prevented from saying "Gobble, gobble." isn't even part of the play. Are you starting to think there might be something a little off about his parents? They literally made this whole story up out of nothing.

6) This particular school serves not only handicapped children but also children who are "in hiding" from adults who have abused them in the past and against whom they have been legally issued restraining orders/orders of protection. These genius parents, however, decided it was a good idea to post this video on the internet where it could, and eventually will, be seen by those abusive adults/stalkers and then those assholes will know exactly where to find these children since the name of the school was made public knowledge.

7) Fucking SJWs!

Derived Absurdity · Post by **Derived Absurdity** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:37 am

Anytime there's a "shocking" or "outrageous" or whatever thing going viral on the Internet 99% of the time it's completely fake. Whether it be a video, news, etc. Not even exaggerating. When something like that happens you just need to wait a week or two for the dust to settle and find out all the facts then. That's what happened with the Muslim clock boy.

I am of the opinion that people who immediately get outraged/shocked by whatever viral bullshit on the Internet without any suspicion that it might be false/exaggerated/misleading should probably be culled.

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:58 am

I'm not sure why Muslim clock boy hasn't been executed. Wasn't that in Texas or Oklahoma? Why the fuck haven't they finished him off yet?

Derived Absurdity · Post by **Derived Absurdity** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:06 am

political correctness

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:08 am

It's definitely getting out of hand. Thanks Obama.

Derived Absurdity · Post by **Derived Absurdity** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:13 am

I'm pretty sure Obama personally doesn't have a problem with killing Muslim children, actually.

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:15 am

But I think he likes mass graves instead of picking them off one at a time. Why kill one child when you can blow up dozens at once?

Derived Absurdity · Post by **Derived Absurdity** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:26 am

That's something I ask myself every day.

Post by **Gendo** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:52 am

It seems like _something_ is off with the general organization of the event. If the kid wasn't in the play, and wasn't supposed to be there, what was he doing on stage? How did he get as far as walking up to the mike to speak? I'm not saying they should have full blown security or something; but you'd think that they could have somehow prevented a child who wasn't part of the play from getting up on stage to think that he was going to speak.

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:55 am

They didn't want to upset his special snowflake parents so they probably let him take part even though he hadn't attended a single rehearsal. But he was disruptive and that's when he should have been put down. It's West Virginia so there should have been plenty of armed citizens to settle this.

Derived Absurdity · Post by **Derived Absurdity** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:43 am

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 7:18 am

Oh now i get the

, but not when I was talking about the Muslim kid. Racist.

Post by **OpiateOfTheMasses** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:41 pm

CashRules wrote:upset his special snowflake parents

I'd almost forgotten about the term "snowflake generation"! Thanks for reminding me about it. It's a great way of describing so many people...

Anakin McFly · Post by **Anakin McFly** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:11 am

It's 'strawberry generation'; googling 'snowflake generation' turned up rants about political correctness, SJWs and things like this -> http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/mi ... -snowflake

Those people annoy me too, but they're being grossly mischaracterised there. Rape victims don't want to read stuff about rape not because they find it 'offensive', but because it might trigger PTSD.

EDIT: apparently 'strawberry generation' is an Asian term. idk then.

Blade Azaezel · Post by **Blade Azaezel** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:54 am

Gendo wrote:It seems like _something_ is off with the general organization of the event. If the kid wasn't in the play, and wasn't supposed to be there, what was he doing on stage? How did he get as far as walking up to the mike to speak? I'm not saying they should have full blown security or something; but you'd think that they could have somehow prevented a child who wasn't part of the play from getting up on stage to think that he was going to speak.

It could be as simple as his parents took him there and let him run up to the stage to take part. I dunno about the US, but teachers in the UK cannot lay a hand on a child. If a teacher tried to jump in front of this kid and blocm his path, in a hall full of parents, i imagine that in itself would cause enough self righteous idiots to say something about child abuse. These days teachers really have to rely on parents controlling their children and actually doing some parenting.

A kid ran out class at my mum's old school, heading directly towards a busy main road. He ran across without even looking. The teachers are NOT allowed to chase after kids, nor are they allowed to lay hands on them. Course, you may think this could be an acceptable exception, but if they left a handprint or bruise on that kid who knows what could happen in these days of suing everyone for everything

CashRules · Post by **CashRules** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:18 am

It's West Virginia, where teachers are allowed to beat kids with a stick.

Post by **aels** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 5:21 pm

Blade Azaezel wrote:
Gendo wrote:It seems like _something_ is off with the general organization of the event. If the kid wasn't in the play, and wasn't supposed to be there, what was he doing on stage? How did he get as far as walking up to the mike to speak? I'm not saying they should have full blown security or something; but you'd think that they could have somehow prevented a child who wasn't part of the play from getting up on stage to think that he was going to speak.
It could be as simple as his parents took him there and let him run up to the stage to take part. I dunno about the US, but teachers in the UK cannot lay a hand on a child. If a teacher tried to jump in front of this kid and blocm his path, in a hall full of parents, i imagine that in itself would cause enough self righteous idiots to say something about child abuse. These days teachers really have to rely on parents controlling their children and actually doing some parenting.

A kid ran out class at my mum's old school, heading directly towards a busy main road. He ran across without even looking. The teachers are NOT allowed to chase after kids, nor are they allowed to lay hands on them. Course, you may think this could be an acceptable exception, but if they left a handprint or bruise on that kid who knows what could happen in these days of suing everyone for everything

My school has a physical restraint policy that allows staff to use reasonable force as a last resort where the pupil is committing a crime, endangering themselves or others, or causing property damage. Certain staff members have been trained on restraint but you're supposed to use every other method of de-escalation first, to send for backup, to avoid being alone with the child, and to use the minimum restraint necessary for the minimum time.

Here's the DoE guidance for all you policy nerds: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... in-schools

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