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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.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-boy-suspended-bringing-ring-power-school-article-1.2099103



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This is crazy!

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Incredibly crazy.

Kids cant even play anymore.

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To take a page from VOR,

Oh, FFS!

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I hope the kids playing cops and robbers on the playground are suspended too. And the ones chasing each other saying "I'm gonna get you" etc.

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If the right teacher hears them, they will be.

Like I said, kids cant even play anymore.

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lilyofcourse wrote:

If the right teacher hears them, they will be.

Like I said, kids cant even play anymore.

 Stories like these make the news. It doesn't mean that every teacher lacks common sense.

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He got suspended for acting out a LITERARY character in SCHOOL. The world has truly lost it. This is why schools get sued - they are too damn stupid to teach our children. MORONS.

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..and the schools wonder why home schooling is on the rise? Duh.

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just Czech wrote:

..and the schools wonder why home schooling is on the rise? Duh.

 And private schools attendance is rising as well. It's a real head scratcher huh? 



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I, too, have to channel VoR ... FFS!!

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I think there is probably more to the story. It is the fathers side of the story and the school is not commenting. I doubt the three suspensions in 6 months is all the schools fault.

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cadiver wrote:

I think there is probably more to the story. It is the fathers side of the story and the school is not commenting. I doubt the three suspensions in 6 months is all the schools fault.

 If the book did have explicit illustrations (the previous suspension), that was a bad call on the part of the parent.

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He got in trouble for calling a classmate black? I would love to know the context of this.

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It says two of the three suspensions were for calling other children black. Did he do it in a negative way? I don't see an issue with saying someone is black or white or whatever. If he used the N word that's a different thing. And the book? It's a dictionary. He brought it to explain the solar system and it also contained stuff about pregnancy. Maybe not the smartest move on the parents part but this school sounds like they are overly PC.

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Lawyerlady wrote:

He got suspended for acting out a LITERARY character in SCHOOL. The world has truly lost it. This is why schools get sued - they are too damn stupid to teach our children. MORONS.

 The bolded.  no



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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

It says two of the three suspensions were for calling other children black. Did he do it in a negative way? I don't see an issue with saying someone is black or white or whatever. If he used the N word that's a different thing. And the book? It's a dictionary. He brought it to explain the solar system and it also contained stuff about pregnancy. Maybe not the smartest move on the parents part but this school sounds like they are overly PC.

 One was for that, one for the book & then the most recent one.

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Black is a Race and Ethnicity Descriptor on many many forms, especially school forms.  They all have "Black" as an ethnicity category.

I would still like to know the context...



-- Edited by Ohfour on Tuesday 3rd of February 2015 05:33:57 PM

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Yes. Black is a descriptor. I would like to know the context.

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Ohfour wrote:

Black is a Race and Ethnicity Descriptor on many many forms.

I would still like to know the context...

 As would I. I realize the school can't comment.

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Regarding the OP.

This is about the dumbest dumb thing I have ever heard. What are the odds that the threat is real? I'm guessing that the answer to that question is "so close to zero as to not even be worth calculating".

Does the school actually think that this child can actually turn another child invisible?

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WYSIWYG wrote:

Regarding the OP.

This is about the dumbest dumb thing I have ever heard. What are the odds that the threat is real? I'm guessing that the answer to that question is "so close to zero as to not even be worth calculating".

Does the school actually think that this child can actually turn another child invisible?

 In New York City schools, a teenager (not New York City and not a teenager in this instance) threatening to make another kid "disappear" could be a real death threat.

But that's not what happened here. This is just dumb.

 



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