Kermit Elementary School

As a person who hates children and wishes to see childhood crushed out of them, I highly approve of this institution. If you'd like to see your child punished for doing literally nothing wrong, this is the place for you. If you'd like your child to get in trouble for bringing an encyclopedia to school, we've got you covered. If you prefer administration who are actually drunk with power over being able to arbitrarily punish small children, we are your team. Do you hate kids? This is definitely the place to send yours.

Too many schools take the threat of dark magic flippantly. It's about time we have one who understands the dangers of trifling with magic rings. Sure, they may seem like a fun and innocent way to play light-hearted pranks like erasing the chalkboard mid-lesson or prowling around the cellars of the ElvenKing's Halls. But these things are a slippery slope and soon enough you're a spectral wraith riding a fell-beast to attack the city of Osgiliath and talking back to your parents.

There is little that is stupider than an American teacher.

Kermit ISD has great schools.

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I traveled back in time with my TARDIS, and dropped each and every one of the school officials on their head as babies. That's why they might appear slightly retarded, believing in magical rings and whatnot.

I'm sorry about that. But as you can see, it's not their fault. Probably a good idea to find an alternative school for your kids, tho.

My kid was threatened by some hobbit or other type of small human holding The One Ring, of all things. After scaring my son to death, his wizard friend proceeded with conjuring up a dragon. I heard the hobbit also carries books full of forbidden knowledge. I refuse to let my children go to a school that only suspends its students for such heinous acts of having a healthy imagination and inquisitive nature. Please get your students under control. If normal procedure won't cut it, medicate them, that's bound to rob them of all that it means to represent humanity's future!

Principle Roxanne Greer and her staff have been harassing a young man who was engaged in imaginative play. He was playing Lord of the Rings and told another student he could make the student disappear by placing a ring on his head. For this, the school suspended a 9 year old child. You may have read about this in the national news. What the hell is wrong with you?

This school is run by the sort of people who are unqualified to lead ants to a picnic, let alone teach and discipline our children. They've suspended this one boy 3 times for the following "violations": bringing an encyclopedic book to school, pretending to turn a classmate invisible with a "magic" ring, and calling a black kid...a black kid. Honestly, their rationale in punishing this boy for committing the most natural and innocuous acts--the sort of thing that children normally do--is confounding to everyone else. Needless to say, how they haven't already been sued by justifiably irate parents into closure of the school is a great mystery to everyone.
I give them one star only because zero isn't an option.

Poor decision making on behalf of the administration. I know that often there is more to the story, but in this case, the school's choice to clam up forces me to consider that it suspended an imaginative child based solely on his ability to pretend.

You guys are the reason teachers such as myself have to field snarky comments on a daily basis. You should be ashamed.

As for the kids: Don't ever stop dreaming and pretending!

This is the worst school I have ever sent my child. If it wasn't the teachers who had strange penchants for eating my daughter's lunch, it was the way they fed the "borrowers" who they believed to inhabit the air vents. My daughter reported that when she would ask a question, like, "Why are pregnant women round?" her teacher spontaneously broke out in the Lord's Prayer and buzzed for the principal to remove my child from class. My daughter, who is half-Black, reported that a teacher got mad when my daughter referred to herself as half-Black, with the teacher's position that she was rejecting her supreme White heritage and to never say the word "Black" again. Once, when I went to pick my daughter up from school, the teacher noticed that I wore a ring on a necklace, and asked if it was because my husband and I were getting a divorce. I was so offended that I put it on and disappeared. I don't have the ring anymore, I gave it to a young boy--a new student just as we were leaving the school. I only hope that it brings him joy and happiness and that he is filled with an imagination that will cause him to soar through life.

How idiotic does one have to be to suspend a child for using his imagination? You're seriously concerned about "magical" threats? Here's a clue, magic isn't real.

Plus, a suspension for having the Big Book of Knowledge, an age appropriate book designed to stimulate a child's mind? Can't have that in Texas, can we?

And kudos for the excellent use of English in "all student stuff is confidential." I'm sure the children will be leading the way in education with such an example. /sarcasm

Finally! A school that teaches that pregnant woman are a myth and childbirth is only a theory (It's never been observed! You can't make babies in a lab!). Instead they teach the alternative: that each child is lovingly brought down by a fluffy white stork, or Storkism, proof that the storks love each of us.

Also, this school takes seriously the terroristic threat of magical invisibility-granting rings, which can only be wielded by a level 29 warlock. This alone is proof that any child that has one is chaotic-evil! While unsure if magical invisibility-granting cloaks exist, I think we should ban those too, just in case. Magic that allows you to walk on water is just fine though. After all, no kid wants to be invisible, and another child threatening to make them disappear with a magic ring could have a negative effect on their emotional health. Oh, but no one should be concerned over the emotional health of the warlock boy that got suspended multiple times for having magical knowledge and an imagination!

This is some seriously backwater school in some seriously backwater town. You all need to pull your heads out of your asses and walk towards the 21st century!! Shame on you for being so self righteous. That little boy did NOTHING wrong in any of the THREE times he was in trouble! Here's a clue::: People can't actually disappear by putting on a ring.it's called PRETEND. Women DO get pregnant. Nothing dirty about that! And...most of all....what did you want him to call that child? I'm guessing African American, but why should he use the term when half of you wouldn't! My husband is black!!! He's not offended!!!!!! holy hell people!!!!!

It saddens me that a facility that is supposed to stimulate the minds of children, would so violate that charter. Imagination, Curiosity, Exploration, these are the traits that allowed our country to travel to space, allowed the creation of computers, cell phones, innovative treatments for serious illnesses and being able to fight cancer and win. I pity the children who attend this intellectually stunted school.I implore the parents to stand up and proclaim in one voice "we won't accept this travesty"

You may want to call homeland security and ask for their current policy regarding the dangers of magical rings. Also, there is a book called The Hobbit that is considered a literary classic; I suggest your staff read it. Yes, it's more than 20 pages long and it could take years for them to get through it, but I think they'll benefit from it.

Teach them young to become robots with no imagination.

For years kids have been playing cops and robbers, soldier, and wild west gun fighters. Now it's hobbits and rings that make things disappear. Never has anyone been hurt nor died from pointing a finger and saying, "Bang!" or has there been a disappearance while pretending to inflict various and sundry "curses" on a playmate.

To suspend Aiden Steward for being a playful, imaginative 9 year old shows that the teacher and principal have WAY overstepped their responsibilities. They acted more like children than the child. SHAME ON YOU, KERMIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! I hope some of you there wakes up and becomes human or is replaced by rational thinking people! Politically correctness be damned.

These people are idiots.
They should close the school down, fire all the admins, and in this specific case open a charter school so that the kids can get a decent education. From today's news, read it and weep:
"A nine-year-old boy has been suspended by officials at a Texas school because they believe bringing an imaginary Hobbit ring to class is an act of terrorism.
When Aiden Steward watched “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” earlier this week with his family, he naturally wanted to pretend to be a character from the film. Specifically, he pretended to be Bilbo Baggins, the hesitantly brave hero who acquires a magic ring from the creature Gollum in the first movie in the trilogy, which is based on a book written by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Forged at the fictional location of Mount Doom, it is “the one ring to rule them all,” giving the wearer the power of invisibility. The power of the ring aided Bilbo during his journey. So, Aiden brought a ring of his own to Kermit Elementary School and told his friends that they, too, could become invisible by using his ring. Again, the ring had no powers whatsoever, because this is reality.
This being Texas, of course, school officials for some reason believed Aiden was making threats of terrorism against his friends with a magical object and suspended him, much to the disbelief of his parents.
John Steward, Aiden’s father, told the New York Daily News, “It sounded unbelievable.”
“Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly. I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend’s existence. If he did, I’m sure he’d bring him right back.”
Principal Roxanne Greer has cowardly declined to comment on the matter, citing student privacy, but it’s most likely that she is just too embarrassed about the situation to make a statement.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time Kermit Elementary has punished Aiden for things that seem to only bother Texas.
Aiden once brought his favorite book to school to impress his teacher, but school officials freaked out because “The Big Book of Knowledge” had a section about pregnancy and included an illustration of a pregnant woman. In another innocuous incident, Aiden referred to a black student as black, which drew yet another suspension from the school.
To recap, school officials at Kermit Elementary School in Texas have suspended a boy three times for three ridiculous reasons. They couldn’t handle an imaginary magical ring from a beloved work of fantasy fiction which is carried by many school libraries. They couldn’t handle a children’s book full of facts that help kids learn. And they couldn’t handle a n"ine-year-old boy knowing what color a classmate’s skin is.
Once again, Texas proves that it is an embarrassment to the nation. Give it back to Mexico."

I was momentarily hopeful that the story I was reading was a hoax but it seems my hope is gone. This family should immediately move to another school district and get this child into a school that will support his imagination and willingness to learn. Oh, and the fact that he was in "trouble" for calling another child Black and bringing in a book that was appropriate for his age...nonsense, just utter nonsense. And, if this was my child, I would be doing everything in my power to get every adult in this school who was involved in this decision or didn't step forward to stop this, FIRED!! I would set up picketing in front of the school, the principals home, everywhere. I would have reporters everywhere, starting a facebook page to gain support and recognition for removing these ridiculous adults from this school....on and on and on. And like I said, my hope is gone...hope that this wasn't true, hope for the children stuck in schools with these types of adults, hope for the families of people who would suspend a child for using his imagination, hope for the future (cause invention, progress, change is all about imagination folks).

This school is just more proof that Common Sense is dead.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; people gave up God; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
- by his parents, Truth and Trust,
- by his wife, Discretion,
- by his daughter, Responsibility,
- and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers; -
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.