Am I missing something, or is my school run by ignorant old people?

[crimsonshrouds]

Pent up aggression and nanny state ideas are going to cause students more harm than any good.

Watch the "war on kids" if you feel the need to start hating how schools are run now even more.

Its on youtube last time i watched it

 

[manaman]

Well today my high school airsoft club was shut down due to "guns being violent" and "the dangerous nature of the game". I honestly cant think of any justification for this decision, games like football and lacrosse (of which my high school enthusiastically supports) are much more violent and dangerous then airsoft. Am I missing something or is my high school just really stupid?

I was on the target rifle shooting team in my high school of nearly 4,000 in the middle of Corpus Christi, TX. Air rifles sure, but even that is a step up from air soft guns.

I'm old enough to remember when kids resolving their differences with fisticuffs was standard operating procedure (got in more than a few scraps myself back then and learned how to fight the hard way---by getting the shit kicked out of me the first couple times). I also seem to remember that after a good slugfest and someone's mom or dad (because back then parents stayed married---shock!) saying "boys will be boys", we were all cool the next day.

It wasn't even that long ago that I attended high school and we had the same standards. Usual fare for fighting was to be sent home for the day.

Main rule at my school was "if you're gonna fight, take it across the street to the park, don't do it on school grounds." You could've parked Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas at that park every day at two in the afternoon and put it on ESPN2.

We didn't have a park nearby, but having three baseball fields, two football fiends, two gyms, a softball field, two tennis courts, and two soccer fields it was pretty easy to find somewhere nearby to settle things. I can't tell how many times I was told, or told someone to meet behind the tennis courts, between the fences for the baseball fields and then tennis court you where pretty much blocked from view. It was a popular place on campus to sneak way during lunch to smoke as well cause you could hop the fence and get away if they started heading over between the baseball fields to catch people.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

More like run by bureaucrats, guns pose a bad image, violence in general if it isnt supported by "school spirit" is generally bad, a kid could get hurt by doing something stupid and most of the time if it isnt an athletic sport litigation may follow, if it doesnt have an official sounding name attached to it it's bad (I'm looking at you most dangerous sport of all time Cheerleading), ect ect.

It's called "covering your ass" most people tend to do it nowadays.

 

[Paksenarrion]

You have rifles. Tell them no

Yes, do this. Film result and post on youtube. Trust us, we are from the internet.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

It's definitely due to ignorance. Either someone who runs your school heard the word "gun" and immediately decided it was their civic duty to put a stop to it, or they decided that some parent would eventually hear the word "gun" and try to do it for them, in a much more public way.

Either way, it's pretty stupid. I've been airsofting(or whatever) and as long as you wear eye-protection (available in a science classroom near you) the most you'll get is a welt. Football can result in far worse injury then that.

 

[Harlemura]

I'm with 'em on it, I've got to be honest.
I wouldn't particularly want any kind of weapon lying around somewhere I'm bound by law to attend. Yes, hundreds of people can use guns safely, but you only need one to go around trying to shoot everything that moves.

But I'm someone who goes to school, learns stuff, comes home. I couldn't care less if clubs in general were banned, no matter what the activity is.
Chess can get pretty nasty, y'know.

 

[kwagamon]

The fact that you got to even propose it to them is a miracle. My school honest to god wouldn't let us have a video game club. We had to actually go completely under the table with it like it was freaking Fight Club. We told them we'd only play T or lower rated games and would have a supervising teacher (both of which were true), and they said something about it being distracting from school work when it would be after school.

To be fair, the same people installing Unreal Tournament to the school network in hidden folders (me and my friends, hehehe) were the same people who were asking to start a club about games. That may have affected their decision somewhat.

 

[SimuLord]

I'm with 'em on it, I've got to be honest.
I wouldn't particularly want any kind of weapon lying around somewhere I'm bound by law to attend. Yes, hundreds of people can use guns safely, but you only need one to go around trying to shoot everything that moves.

But I'm someone who goes to school, learns stuff, comes home. I couldn't care less if clubs in general were banned, no matter what the activity is.
Chess can get pretty nasty, y'know.

You're against A/V club and glee club and even the chess team?

 

[Canid117]

Couldn't your school have just issued a waiver?

 

[Cazza]

It's the "gun" part in airsoft gun that does it. People think it's trains people to use real guns and on people. They might think it will cause a shooting at school or somewhere.

 

[aDuck]

I'm with 'em on it, I've got to be honest.
I wouldn't particularly want any kind of weapon lying around somewhere I'm bound by law to attend. Yes, hundreds of people can use guns safely, but you only need one to go around trying to shoot everything that moves.

But I'm someone who goes to school, learns stuff, comes home. I couldn't care less if clubs in general were banned, no matter what the activity is.
Chess can get pretty nasty, y'know.

You're against A/V club and glee club and even the chess team?

^LOL

Whats the only question you ever thought was hard?

 

[Jukofux]

...What in all-hell is airsoft? I-is it nerf, cause it sounds like nerf...brb *to wiki!* ohh those little pellet gun things...ya I can see how those *COULD* be dangerous, they were annoying as hell in college but in public schools ya they're going to get banned. Like those before me have mentioned "Parents (and their lawyers) scare the crap out of public schools.

 

[Sark]

You have fucking air rifles. You can take out eyes with those. How can bringing them to school possibly seem like a good idea? There is just far too much room for some kid to flip and do permanent damage to someone, the school doesn't want to be liable for that, and they are doing the right thing by banning it.

 

[HijiriOni]

I'm with 'em on it, I've got to be honest.
I wouldn't particularly want any kind of weapon lying around somewhere I'm bound by law to attend. Yes, hundreds of people can use guns safely, but you only need one to go around trying to shoot everything that moves.

But I'm someone who goes to school, learns stuff, comes home. I couldn't care less if clubs in general were banned, no matter what the activity is.
Chess can get pretty nasty, y'know.

You're against A/V club and glee club and even the chess team?

^LOL

Whats the only question you ever thought was hard?

Whether I like Kirk or I like Picard?

Course the irony is that the school supports movies with violence, the people who manage the school watched cartoons filled with Elmer Fudd using a shotgun, and so on yet they complain about something designed to be safe and can easily have a waiver tossed at it to solve any potential dangers.

 

[Bluexstriker]

I always wondered do I like Kirk, or do I like Picard?

How do you spend every weekend?

 

[Italian Stalion]

Teens with guns?

Bad idea.

Hey everyone, you can't legally drive a car, nor can you drink, but lets all play with guns!

It's asking for trouble. You are lucky to have been able to have it going for as long as you have.

I'm not saying you are irresponsible, just that the majority of teens are.

 

[Mercsenary]

You have fucking air rifles. You can take out eyes with those. How can bringing them to school possibly seem like a good idea? There is just far too much room for some kid to flip and do permanent damage to someone, the school doesn't want to be liable for that, and they are doing the right thing by banning it.

No the School is being an idiot. They obviously approved it before but since that whole shooting incident now its OH NOES. GUNS BAD. FLEE FLEE SCURRY AWAY.

 

[Italian Stalion]

Could be a response to the UT shooting.

Most likely, however it would be incredibally difficult to shoot yourself with an airsoft gun.

 

[Nosense]

My school board (and principle) when I was in high school were some of the dumbest, backward, and hypocritical sons of bitches I have ever seen in a position of great importance (and then I could vote.....I fear for us).

 

[Italian Stalion]

You have rifles. Tell them no

Well played.

I don't really care, bad luck for you.