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Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« on: January 12, 2019, 06:58:33 am »

By Scott Berson
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article201604224.html?fbclid=IwAR2QcMrkalS2ChYFWZqr1RCnc83pUNrg9qf3RSgzb3PtZeM5IFWIYGz2iq4

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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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When we were kids and thought math was a terror, we weren't even close to that kind of insane-in-the-brain . . . ---EA.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2019, 07:02:21 am »
This isn't a joke ? Hoax? Satire?   
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2019, 07:21:33 am »
Quote from: LegalAmerican on January 12, 2019, 07:02:21 am
This isn't a joke ? Hoax? Satire?
@LegalAmerican
Unfortunately, no.

It really happened.

I'm only surprised some snowflake kid didn't see some other kid working out long division and calling the coppers to report that terrorist threat before.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2019, 07:33:22 am »
I am convinced...something in our water, food, air supply, vaccines,,,that make people nuts.

There was an article how some vaccines could produce behavior changes.  Like a violent tendency, could be calmed.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2019, 08:34:06 am »
Quote from: LegalAmerican on January 12, 2019, 07:02:21 am
This isn't a joke ? Hoax? Satire?

A scene from the movie “idioocracy”?

Next thing you know they will ban the play “Annie get your gun” and the song “happiness is a warm gun”
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2019, 02:58:25 pm »
I was really hoping this was satire.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2019, 03:04:05 pm »
Who called the police, and what was the teacher doing during this?
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2019, 03:10:31 pm »
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2019, 03:23:54 pm »
The young snowflakes are been successfully indoctrinated.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2019, 03:47:42 pm »
Quote from: austingirl on January 12, 2019, 03:23:54 pm
The young snowflakes are been successfully indoctrinated.
That may be, but a sixth grader should have been mathematically literate enough to recognize the square root symbol. If these were high school students, WTF are their teachers doing???
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2019, 04:56:05 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 12, 2019, 03:47:42 pm
That may be, but a sixth grader should have been mathematically literate enough to recognize the square root symbol. If these were high school students, WTF are their teachers doing???

The government teachers are indoctrinating them to accept totalitarian rule. No need to learn math.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2019, 05:11:46 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on January 12, 2019, 03:04:05 pm
Who called the police, and what was the teacher doing during this?

And what judge signed off on a search warrant?
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2019, 06:49:53 pm »
Quote from: Freya on January 12, 2019, 08:34:06 am
A scene from the movie “idioocracy”?

Next thing you know they will ban the play “Annie get your gun” and the song “happiness is a warm gun”
Not to mention maybe banning . . .

The Bobby Fuller Four, "I Fought the Law"

Sorry...
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2019, 06:52:47 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 12, 2019, 03:47:42 pm
That may be, but a sixth grader should have been mathematically literate enough to recognize the square root symbol. If these were high school students, WTF are their teachers doing???

@Smokin Joe

Putting in their time and waiting for their pension?
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2019, 07:44:26 pm »
There is excuse for being ignorant as these kids are, as well as any teacher responsible for their education.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2019, 10:00:24 pm »
Quote from: Freya on January 12, 2019, 08:34:06 am
Next thing you know they will ban the play “Annie get your gun” and the song “happiness is a warm gun”

Annie take your square root
Happiness is a warm square root
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2019, 10:31:41 pm »
Quote from: kidd on January 12, 2019, 10:00:24 pm
Annie take your square root
Happiness is a warm square root
Don't Take Your Square Root to Town
The Square Roots of Brixton
Janie's Got a Square Root
Bo Diddley is a Square Root Slinger
I Square Rooted the Sheriff
Lawyers, Square Roots, and Money
Square Roots on the Roof
God and Square Roots
Square Root the Blue Sky
Machine Square Root
Square Root Packin' Mama

. . . and always remember, Mao Tse-tung said political power springs from the barrel of a square root.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2019, 11:36:29 pm »



Relax....it’s just a folding stock for the Kriss Vector.
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2019, 05:51:35 am »
Quote from: EasyAce on January 12, 2019, 10:31:41 pm
Don't Take Your Square Root to Town
The Square Roots of Brixton
Janie's Got a Square Root
Bo Diddley is a Square Root Slinger
I Square Rooted the Sheriff
Lawyers, Square Roots, and Money
Square Roots on the Roof
God and Square Roots
Square Root the Blue Sky
Machine Square Root
Square Root Packin' Mama

. . . and always remember, Mao Tse-tung said political power springs from the barrel of a square root.





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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2019, 06:32:55 am »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on January 12, 2019, 07:44:26 pm
There is excuse for being ignorant as these kids are, as well as any teacher responsible for their education.

They were dropped on their fontenelles when they were babies?

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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2019, 06:33:57 am »
Wonder what they think infinity sign is,

A drunk 8
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Re: Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2019, 06:52:33 am »
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« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2019, 05:29:14 pm »




Ha ha ha ha ha.....LOVE IT!   GREAT, YOU GUYS!      ^5
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