My old high school is in the news *again*

[Pk_Ranger]

Northwest High School suspended two teachers' aides after one of them let students borrow her car -- which allegedly had a handgun under a seat -- during school hours this week, officials said.

Police said Aisha Griffin, a 25-year-old aide at the school, let two students use her car to leave campus to get lunch on Tuesday. The students crashed nearly two miles from school, police said; no injuries were reported.

Griffin got a ride to the crash scene from a fellow aide and retrieved from her own car a handgun that was concealed under a front seat, police said.The aides then went back to school property with Griffin in possession of the gun, police said.

Police allege that the gun was in Griffin's car before she let the students borrow the vehicle, and that the car was on school property. Therefore, police say, Griffin twice brought the gun onto school property Tuesday.

State law says only police officers can have firearms on school property, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.

Also, Indianapolis Public Schools police say Griffin violated school policy by letting the students borrow her car during school hours.

"To allow a student to have possession of her vehicle in the first place, and then subsequently ... that firearm, it's unforgivable in my opinion," IPS Police Chief Steve Garner said Wednesday.Police said Griffin could face two felony charges on accusations that she twice took the gun to school property on Tuesday.

Griffin didn't have a license to carry the gun, police said.

Griffin told RTV6 on Wednesday that she didn't consider having the gun in her vehicle the same as bringing the weapon to school.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/7092490/detail.html

[MarkTwo]

Hi PK R

Another story to put in the "Only in America" file... Thanfully this time, no one was hurt, though those teachers aids will loose their jobs most likely, and have to find a new career....

Mark

[StarsGoBlue]

:rolleyes: as well they should. however, i think stupidity is global and not something uniquely american.



dangit, where are all my usual smileys.... *is vexed*

[AyuRocks]

Oh yeah? This has been my old high school in the news lately - kids from the gifted program made a bomb and blew up a car, a girl that graduated with me died of a heroin overdose, two dumbass kids carjacked a lady because they missed the bus, and a kid committed suicide by jumping off a parking garage.

This is a great, safe school an upper middle class suburban neighborhood, which makes it extra crazy.

[Zimtsternchen]

Oh stupidity is definitely global. However, what is stupid may vary from country to country depending on means available. Sorry to read any of this, anywhere.

[The Keeper]

My old school (just left last year) has been in the news a lot latley.

One instant was the two bank robbers known as "Dumb and Dumber". The ones who robbed that Colorado bank?

One of them was two grades higher than me at my school, but I vaguly remember him being at school, (i looked him up in the year book lol) cause he was in my cousins year.

I do belive our school got some bad publicity from it in the local newspapers. I think my principal even tried to sue the paper. Haha.

ETA: We also had a boy in my brothers year commit suicide, and the cafeteria man's son got crushed underneath the back fence of my schoo too. Sad sad times.

[StephX]

Mine was in the news recently, too. There was a brawl at the high school between two girl gangs. :rolleyes: 13 were arrested for inciting a riot.