Shooting spitwads called ‘violent criminal conduct’

Here is a classic example of political correction gone astray. Spitwads are now a  weapon to be controlled at any cost. And our courts? Happy to take on this criminal behavior, while the country sinks into the abyss.

School officials referred the student, Andrew Mikel II, to the local police department at the time.

The Rutherford appeal notes that no one was hurt, and there was no indication that there was any desire to injure anyone, so the school’s actions “were excessively punitive and violate the constitutional guarantee to due process of law.”

The consequences were the suspension, juvenile criminal proceedings for assault, a resulting diversion program with mandatory substance abuse and anger management counseling.

A circuit court affirmed the school board’s decision even while describing it as “incongruous,” because it wouldn’t call the actions an abuse of discretion. Then why rule the way you did? Just asking.

The state Supreme Court in Virginia is being asked to overturn a decision by a local school board that called a student’s confession of shooting spitwads at fellow students “violent criminal conduct” that involved “attempting to kill, shoot, stab, cut, wound, otherwise physically injure or batter another person.” It will be interesting to see how the court rules, if it confirms the lower court decision, we are indeed lost.

The appeal has been filed by attorneys with the Rutherford Institute in a case involving a 9th grade student at Spotsylvania High, who was sent to the principal’s office after shooting a handful of small, hollow pellets akin to plastic spitwads at fellow students. He was expelled for a year.
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