{"id":14767,"date":"2024-09-18T18:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14767"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:38:01","slug":"tennessee-school-expels-10-year-old-for-making-a-finger-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14767","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee School Expels 10-Year-Old for Making a Finger Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;one high school student who was &#8220;known as a class clown&#8221; made &#8220;an offhand joke about committing an act of violence&#8221; last school year, according to&nbsp;<em>ProPublica<\/em>&#8216;s report. &#8220;Rumors spread among the students about his comment, warping it in the process. He was called to the principal&#8217;s office, where a waiting police officer asked whether he had a gun in his backpack. He showed them that he didn&#8217;t and insisted that he had just been making a joke\u2026.School officials initiated a threat assessment and gathered statements from the students who heard the joke, which were then used as evidence against him. He was expelled for a year.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"siqqjCXiJS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/27\/tennessee-school-expels-10-year-old-for-making-a-finger-gun\/\">Tennessee School Expels 10-Year-Old for Making a Finger Gun<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Tennessee School Expels 10-Year-Old for Making a Finger Gun&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/27\/tennessee-school-expels-10-year-old-for-making-a-finger-gun\/embed\/#?secret=aaN7FdB4GH#?secret=siqqjCXiJS\" data-secret=\"siqqjCXiJS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;one high school student who was &#8220;known as a class clown&#8221; made &#8220;an offhand joke about committing an act of violence&#8221; last school year, according to ProPublica&#8217;s report. &#8220;Rumors spread among the students about his comment, warping it in the process. He was called to the principal&#8217;s office, where a waiting police officer asked whether he had a gun in his backpack. He showed them that he didn&#8217;t and insisted that he had just been making a joke\u2026.School officials initiated a threat assessment and gathered statements from the students who heard the joke, which were then used as evidence against him. He was expelled for a year.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/27\/tennessee-school-expels-10-year-old-for-making-a-finger-gun\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,109,357,1640],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-guns","tag-school","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14768,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions\/14768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}