Magic is Terrorism.

[binary solo]

generic-user-1 said:

binary solo said:
Well, in the school's defence, lots of 9-year old kids still believe in Santa with his flying reindeer, the Tooth Fairy and that the Easter Bunny lays eggs. So while threatening with a magic ring is laughable to us, to the child who was on the receiving end of the threat he/she might actually believe that magic rings are a thing. Hence that child might believe the threat is real and might have been very scared and traumatised by the ordeal.

Whether suspension was an appropriate response or not is a different matter, and one which needs to full context of the ringbearer's schooling history. But bringing the T word into it was completely out of order.

traumatised? for real?its a 9 year old kid, they dont get traumatised because some other kid tells em scary storys...

the most kids arent stupid, they learn that santa, sauron, the easter bunny, jesus, sanic, etc arent real.

 

and no, suspension is the wrong response, the teachers and the supernintendo should be FIRED.  they smoke crack, or are realy realy realy stupid, both isnt okay for teachers.

You have no idea the sheltered, warped and naive world some children live in. Children of certain backgrounds believe things like demonic possession and witchcraft are real, not just the benign things like Santa and the Easter Bunny. If the kid who was the "victim" is one of those types...and with Texas the likelihood is much higher than some states... then it is quite plausible that they would take a magic ring threat seriously.

When you always look at situations through your own lens of truth you will often dismiss other people's concerns because they have a different perspective on the world. What if the kid had threatened voodoo doll pinning rather than The One Ring disappearaing act? To my mind that is an equally ridiculous and empty threat, just as magicky and full of fantasy as the One Ring. But to some people voodoo is serious shit. If you threaten the wrong person in the wrong place with voodoo you are likely to have a bunch of people track you down and burn your house down with you in it. Perhaps in Texas you shouldn't threaten little kids with ring magic.

Was it an overreaction? Probably. It is as straight forward as most of you want to make it out. Almost certianly not.

Why would you fire the supernintendo? Is it because it never got a Hobbit game?