q5sys
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Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
http://www.miamiherald.com/article201604224.html
Quote: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.
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gdunn
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
Well it is Lousy-anna... I'm gonna pay for that one.
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02-26-2018 12:17 PM |
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
time to outlaw math....
jfc.....what a collection of morons that are being trained today.....
what's the ol' adage, "....back to the womb"
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02-26-2018 12:19 PM |
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
brought to you by the morons who eat laundry detergent
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TampaTom
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
Guess what. 4th Amendment was just violated, wasn't it?
Jokes on them, this kid and his family are about to become VERY wealthy.
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02-26-2018 12:20 PM |
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VA49er
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
lol, what an embarrassment.
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
At least they were kids. What's her excuse?
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02-26-2018 12:26 PM |
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gdunn
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
(02-26-2018 12:20 PM)TampaTom Wrote: Guess what. 4th Amendment was just violated, wasn't it?
Jokes on them, this kid and his family are about to become VERY wealthy.
Probable cause.
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02-26-2018 12:28 PM |
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TampaTom
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
(02-26-2018 12:28 PM)gdunn Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:20 PM)TampaTom Wrote: Guess what. 4th Amendment was just violated, wasn't it?
Jokes on them, this kid and his family are about to become VERY wealthy.
Probable cause.
Where is the probable cause here? I cannot see it.
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02-26-2018 12:30 PM |
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q5sys
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
(02-26-2018 12:30 PM)TampaTom Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:28 PM)gdunn Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:20 PM)TampaTom Wrote: Guess what. 4th Amendment was just violated, wasn't it?
Jokes on them, this kid and his family are about to become VERY wealthy.
Probable cause.
Where is the probable cause here? I cannot see it.
A Snowflake was scared... that's all it takes now a days for the force of the government to get involved.
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02-26-2018 12:38 PM |
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gdunn
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
(02-26-2018 12:30 PM)TampaTom Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:28 PM)gdunn Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:20 PM)TampaTom Wrote: Guess what. 4th Amendment was just violated, wasn't it?
Jokes on them, this kid and his family are about to become VERY wealthy.
Probable cause.
Where is the probable cause here? I cannot see it.
I would think that with the recent school shooting, with the lack of checking up on a percieved problem that all LEOs are being cautious.
Just my theory. Not a lawyer nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I will say this, if this truly was what it was perpetrated to be and the cops did nothing and a shooting occurred, they'd be slammed in the media.
I think right now it's all knee jerk.
I blame the kids cause they obviously haven't cracked a math book to know what that was. I still do that house for division as well.
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02-26-2018 12:48 PM |
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
(02-26-2018 12:30 PM)TampaTom Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:28 PM)gdunn Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:20 PM)TampaTom Wrote: Guess what. 4th Amendment was just violated, wasn't it?
Jokes on them, this kid and his family are about to become VERY wealthy.
Probable cause.
Where is the probable cause here? I cannot see it.
Someone probably wrote a dossier on him real quick. That's all that is needed.
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02-26-2018 01:04 PM |
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
There was more to it than just the square root sign that the article didn't cover.
http://www.katc.com/story/37572205/oberl...rom-school
Quote:Sheriff Hebert explained that the online gossip about the Oberlin High student spread so far that the rumor did not accurately depict the truth at all.
Allen Parish School District Superintendent Michael Doucet explained that it was a poorly judged quip between one student to another in a math class.
"The students were working together, and a student made a math symbol of a square root sign, which kind of looks like a pistol. And he was helping a weaker student, and the student says, 'Well, that looks like a pistol!' And he just made a comment [like] 'let's just get to work before I shoot you with a pistol,” said Superintendent Doucet.
Gossip turned it into a rumor about the student plotting to carry out a mass shooting at Oberlin High School. The rumor warranted a search of the student's home for guns.
"He did not commit a crime. He did not commit anything remotely criminal, nothing to remotely suggest any intent to do actual harm,” said Hebert.
In response, the school board set a new policy.
Any student accused of talking about guns or school shootings will be investigated by three entities: the school board, the sheriff's department, and the district attorney's office.
If an incident like this occurs again, Doucet explained the protocol.
"The first thing we're going to do is remove that student from the premises with proper authority. Then, we're going to have a home visit done by detectives of the sheriff's department, and if no charges are filed, we're going to conduct a threat assessment on the student,” Doucet said.
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
(02-26-2018 12:14 PM)q5sys Wrote: http://www.miamiherald.com/article201604224.html
Quote: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.
I don't know which is sadder, the fact that these snowflakes were so scared by a mathematical symbol someone DREW they called the police or that the state education has deteriorated to the point where they don't know what a square root looks like.
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
(02-26-2018 03:35 PM)BadgerMJ Wrote: (02-26-2018 12:14 PM)q5sys Wrote: http://www.miamiherald.com/article201604224.html
Quote: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.
I don't know which is sadder, the fact that these snowflakes were so scared by a mathematical symbol someone DREW they called the police or that the state education has deteriorated to the point where they don't know what a square root looks like.
Stupid should hurt.
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02-26-2018 03:39 PM |
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
Love.
Oh No! Why did I write "ove" with a pistol pointing in the air in front of it? Everybody run!
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02-26-2018 04:12 PM |
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
the dumbing down of American continues...
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02-26-2018 04:14 PM |
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RE: Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
Lord help them the next time a student dares try division.
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02-26-2018 04:16 PM |
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Students in Louisiana thought the Square Root symbol looked like a gun: Police called
I think they changed the article. It originally said that any student that talked about shooting or guns would be investigated by three bodies. Including home search by law enforcement and having a "threat assessment" done.
For talking about a gun.
Then they can go to Civics class and learn about the Bill of Rights and how they have freedom of speech and protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
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