A smoke bomb??? OMG!! OMG!!! WIll counseling be available for the poor tender children effected by this horrible, horrible tragedy???

Circa ’66, senior in HS. Favorite prank was a “cherry bomb” (yeah, you could buy ‘em back then) stuck in the side of lit cigarette and left on one of the office’s window sills. Do this at recess and be back in class when it went off. he-he. And if you got caught, get ready for the coach and the paddle and another when you got home. After this case was closed.

Blame lawyers. Schools call the cops because they are afraid of all the soccer moms and dads out there suing them for disciplining little johnny. SO they say fine, we’ll call the cops and COA’s

this is the result of “no tolerance” policies at schools. if you fail a class you can do it over. but if you have one dumb moment and do one dumb or maybe just mischevious thing, you get charged with a felony and could go to prison, ruining your chances of getting a good job or going to a good college. ridiculous

What a joke! Our school systems are way too authoritarian! Give him detention, laugh it off and remember the great smoke prank of 2010! Call the police!?!? You have got to be kidding… Our schools are become little authoritarian training grounds for our future socialist society. When will the madness end? Who will stand up and be sensible?

Zero tolerance is just a tool that still fails to provide CYA for the schoool administration or allow for common sense to be applied. I accidentally started a fire in a haystack by leaving some alchohollic beverages behind for some careless smokers to find (so I guess I didn’t actually start the fire). Our rear ends paid the price without the need for police and the lesson of the paddle was the most effective.

39 years ago, when I was in the 9th grade I had made a homemade smoke bomb. Some of my friends wanted to see how well it worked. We lit it behind the stage in the school auditorium. After it was over we threw it into a sink and left. Unbeknownst to me the principal was coming in another door and saw us leave. He smelled smoke and thought an electrical panel was on fire so he called the fire department. He then conducted a class to class search and found me. I told him what I had done and was suspended for 3 days.

Why is it that we are criminalizing all aspects of human behavior? We are truly a controlled and beat down people. In the 1950′s, we used to put homemade M-80s in people’s mailboxes on Halloween, sometimes splitting the seams open. Got caught once, and had to buy the guy a new mailbox. Nowadays, it is a terrorist act with a “destructive device”. People are nuts.

It’s so refreshing to see so many people agreeing that this was just a stupid prank and that the worst this kid should have received was a suspension. High school for me was only 20 years ago and at least twice a year somebody would be setting off stink bombs in the lockers. It was awful to smell but most people got a kick out of it. Toilet papering the coach’s yard after a big win was considered a spirited gesture and leaving clouds of tire smoke in the school parking lot after the last bell just meant you had a car everyone else wanted. Now schools are just raising a bunch of narrow minded wimps.

We are just beginning to see the results of Zero Tolerance in education on our society.

Back when I was a kid, They would have called his parents and he would have a missed a day or two of school. Now! HArd time at Leavenworth.

40 years ago, the kid would have been brought out in front of a general assembly. The gym teacher would then take a paddle and smack the kid’s butt until he cried like a little girl.

Well, I did ‘attend’ reform school in the 70′s, and he would not have been arrested. The staff would have beat the snot out of him and thrown him in meditation hall, but no, not arrested.

At one time (not to long ago) this was a free country, not a lawyer driven feminized nanny-state. Which is why there needs to be a police officer in all high schools. LOL @ U.S.. Within the next 15 years, this formerly free and formerly great country will be a complete prison state. By then, I will no longer live here, so I could care less. Morons deserve NO freedom….

tried 30 yrs ago, 1 day suspension

We used to flush M-80′s down the toilets and blow up the plumbing. Smoke bomb? How light weight…….

I had to scrub cafeteria tables for weeks after I set off fireworks in school. No one would have even considered calling the police. That was 1981.

3 good swats from the football coach.
suspension for a week
Apology to the student body, faculty and staff on the first day back.
Return to class – incident closed.

But no these people want to ruin his life for a high school prank.
Involve the legal system and this will never go away. Now that’s excessive.

The least that they can do is to put him on the no-fly list.

I knew the difference between right and wrong by the time I started kindergarten. If I had ever tried something like this, Dad would have whipped my a–.

A child’s brain is not fully developed at this age and unfortunately some actions of youth can really harm them. Thinking as an 18 year old this is pretty funny. As a 62 year old. My God! how dumb!

I’m happy our schools have “O” tolerance. It’s bad enough our kids today have to grow up in this world as it is today. As a matter of fact: a student busted out a bus window today (on the way to school)……..and he was taken off the bus with handcuffs!! Thumbs up to our law enforcement / school board for showing the ‘other students’ that Crime doesn’t pay and there IS a consequence for their actions

Try 17 years ago. I got a 2 week suspension.

40 years ago he would be in jail.

20 years ago, we would have laughed it off, and the boy would have had a suspension, or had to stay after school. Today we bring in law enforcement.