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ziero0
23rd February 2018, 06:30 AM
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article201604224.html

http://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/news/nation-world/national/7z52o2/picture201605294/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/Screen%20Shot%202018-02-22%20at%201.03.58%20PM

Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called


A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.

On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.

Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article201604224.html#storylink=cpy

Barbaro
23rd February 2018, 07:23 AM
Meatheads.......

Joshua01
23rd February 2018, 07:33 AM
How would they know otherwise? They have no skills; they possess no real knowledge. They aren't being taught anything other than communist values. Public schools should be banned and shut down immediately, then bulldozed so they can never hurt America's youth again!!

midnight rambler
23rd February 2018, 05:07 PM
Update - school kids there can be expelled for merely TALKING ABOUT GUNS -

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/student-faces-expulsion-saying-math-symbol-looks-like-gun/

ziero0
23rd February 2018, 07:42 PM
TALKING ABOUT GUNS -
https://media.giphy.com/media/1cic2HrJDNAoo/giphy.gif

osoab
24th February 2018, 03:04 AM
Just shy of 50/50 white black. Giving small schools a bad name. 290 students for grades 7-12.

https://www.greatschools.org/louisiana/oberlin/49-Oberlin-High-School/

Twisted Titan
24th February 2018, 10:35 PM
https://media.giphy.com/media/1cic2HrJDNAoo/giphy.gif



Dude that movie was epic.....


There is no shortage than 6 billion one liners

Silver Rocket Bitches!
26th February 2018, 05:41 PM
No more weapon shaped symbols in math. In fact, we need to modify the term "bullet points" as well. We don't need students getting triggered. Oops, better not use the word "triggered" anymore because that could be associated with guns. Where does it end?