{"id":183189,"date":"2015-02-01T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/01\/can-we-please-give-them-back-to-mexico\/"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:53:00","slug":"can-we-please-give-them-back-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/01\/can-we-please-give-them-back-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Please Give them back to Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Texas, boy was suspended for bringing the “one ring to rule them all” to school to make a classmate vanish<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his \u201cone ring\u201d to school.<\/span>

<\/span>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\u2019s Mount Doom.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cIt sounded unbelievable,\u201d the boy\u2019s father, Jason Steward, told the Daily News. He insists his son \u201cdidn\u2019t mean anything by it.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>The Stewards had just watched \u201cThe Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies\u201d days earlier, inspiring Aiden\u2019s imagination and leading him to proclaim that he had in his possession the one ring to rule them all.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cKids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly,\u201d Steward said.<\/span>

<\/span>Aiden claimed Thursday he could put a ring on his friend’s head and make him invisible like Bilbo Baggins, who stole Gollum\u2019s “precious” in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s fantasy series \u201cThe Lord of the Rings.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cI assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend\u2019s existence,\u201d the boy’s father later wrote in an email. “If he did, I’m sure he’d bring him right back.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It gets better.<\/p>\n

This kid has been suspended for referring to another student as “Black”, and for the 2nd<\/sup> suspension, it was for bringing a science book to school:<\/p>\n

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.”<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cHe loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,\u201d Steward said.<\/span>

<\/span>But the teacher learned the popular children\u2019s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They suspended a kid from school for bringing a science book.<\/p>\n

Can we please give the whole state back to Mexico?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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