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| Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate 'disappear' with sorcery |
| 2015-02-02 |
| Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his 'one ring' to school. Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth's Mount Doom. "It sounded unbelievable," the boy's father, Jason Steward, told the Daily News. He insists his son didn't mean anything by it." The Stewards had just watched "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies" days earlier, inspiring Aiden's imagination and leading him to proclaim that he had in his possession the one ring to rule them all. "Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly," Steward said. Aiden claimed Thursday he could put a ring on his friend's head and make him invisible like Bilbo Baggins, who stole Gollum's "precious" in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series "The Lord of the Rings." "I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," the boy's father later wrote in an email. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back." Principal Roxanne Greer declined to comment on the fourth-grader's suspension, citing confidentiality policies, according to the Odessa American, who first reported Aiden's troubles Friday. The family moved to the Kermit Independent School District only six months ago, but it's been nothing but headaches for Aiden. He's already been suspended three times this school year. Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: "The Big Book of Knowledge." "He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed," Steward said. But the teacher learned the popular children's encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #5 "I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," the boy's father later wrote in an email. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back." Great response by the father. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-02-02 21:56 |
| #4 Amazing that Principal Roxanne Greer can function that well with a stick that far up her ass. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-02-02 21:30 |
| #3 Could be worse - could be a magical sword or Cambell's magic BoomStick. |
| Posted by: Squinty Smiter of the Mongol Horde1951 2015-02-02 20:27 |
| #2 If this was really the Kermit Elementary School, this would never have happened... |
| Posted by: Count Galeazzo Smith8994 2015-02-02 18:27 |
| #1 Stupid Muggles ruining everything... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-02-02 17:28 |