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High School Punishes Christmas Sweater Club for Giving Candy Canes

“Littering,“ ”creating a disturbance,“ and ”malicious wounding.” That’s what a group of light-hearted high schoolers are being charged with after they dressed up in wacky Christmas sweaters and distributed candy canes at school:

WUSA-TV reports:

They call themselves the “Christmas Sweater Club” because they wear the craziest ones they can find. But they also sing Christmas songs at school and try their best to spread Christmas cheer.

But now all 10 of them are in trouble because of what they did at their school, Battlefield High School.

“They said we were maliciously wounding other kids. But nobody intentionally tried to do that, or did,” said Zakk Rhine, a junior at Battlefield.

The boys say they were just tossing small two-inch candy canes to fellow students as they entered school. The ones that are in plastic wrap and are so small they often break apart.

Skylar Torbett, also a junior, said administrators told him, “The candy canes could be used as weapons by sucking on them and making them have sharp points.” He said neither he nor any of their friend did that.

Next thing they knew, they were all being punished with detention and at least two hours of cleaning. Their disciplinary notices say nothing about malicious wounding, but about littering and creating a disturbance.

“It was 7 a.m. in the morning, when kids were coming to school. So I can‘t see how we’d be creating a disturbance,” said Cameron Gleason, also a junior.

The Principal Amy Etheridge-Conti says she can‘t comment on the students’ discipline, but did say there was lot more to it than handing out candy and that the discipline was warranted.

The boys admitted that their incident may have cause litter since some kids dropped their candy canes on the floor.  But Cameron Gleason said he spent an hour cleaning up the dropped candy.

The boys’ parents think the school went overboard and that maybe administrators were trying to stop their boys from spreading Christmas cheer.

Mother Kathleen Flannery said a administrator called her and explained that, “not everyone wants Christmas cheer. That suicide rates are up over Christmas, and that they should keep their cheer to themselves, perhaps.”

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  • TonyinIndiana
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:41am

    If the school is so concerned about kids making shanks out of candy canes, I‘m guessing candy cane shanks probably aren’t their biggest problem…..hmmmm.

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    • sedition
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:48am

      Battlefield High School in Manassas, Virginia
      Sharpen your candy canes kids were heading for a revolution!!

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    • christmastree
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 5:58pm

      As a graduate of Battlefield High School, I can personally tell you that this not surprising at all. The administration at Battlefield, is ridiculous beyond belief. They are too wound up in the smallest little issues rather than worrying about the major problems that happen everyday during the year. This school is really like a prison, and I am so glad to be gone from there!

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  • Seagal45
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:39am

    Sometimes I cannot believe what I’m reading. Having lost a child to suicide it would have been a blessing to have had some “cheer” spread around. Interesting isn’t it that ANY OTHER religous holiday is recongized except the one on which our country was founded. God help us, He must be weeping now. Merry Christmas!

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    • janddjohnson
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:16pm

      Seagal45
      I am terribly sorry about your loss. I sent an email to Miss Conti and told her that some cheer would be welcomed if one of her students were suicidal and maybe would of made the difference. I hope everyone blasts her until she makes a public apology and change their website to the Christmas Holiday instead of the Winter Holiday. We have got to stay on top of these idiots.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:38am

    one more attempt by the vile democrat obama worshippers to destroy Christmas, Christmas cheer, and to indoctrinate OUR CHILDREN to ignore and revile Christmas.

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    • Bobcats2011
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:51pm

      I go to this school. I got hit in the face with a candy cane and had to go to the nurse for an ice pack. I think the news article misses the point that the candy canes were not tossed, but rather pelted at passersby.

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    • bbquizzle
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 3:19am

      @Bobcat

      A 2-in cancy cane strike to the head requires an icepack? What did they use, a pitching machine? Get real, man.

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  • Raptor
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:38am

    If these kids parents don’t uprise and make a point of this….then once again we all lose!
    Come on people….stand up! Its almost too late already…..why is everyone so scared of getting in trouble or hollered at? Big deal…..MAKE A STAND!

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:36am

    Go ahead people, laugh and make light of this. Obviously none of you have ever stared down the (sharpened) barrel of a small candy cane. Only then will you understand true terror.

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  • IPFH
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:35am

    stories like this make me glad that I decided to homeschool my kids!! My girls are well rounded, smart confident and capable kids and not caught up in this stupidity!!! It is not an easy job but I highly recommend it. It can be done even with both parents working and the results are soooo worth it…

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  • QuietRiot
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:28am

    Battlefied HS you are the start of the Battlefield !!

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    • jbl8199
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:49pm

      Everybody run!!!!!!! They’ve got candy canes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:27am

    Here is Principal Amy Etheridge-Conti’s email address: ethridas@pwcs.edu
    Here is her phone number: (571) 261-4450
    Have fun and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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    • neverending
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:31am

      Thank you Gonzo – I was trying to find that!!!

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    • TERMLIMITSNOW
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:34am

      Thank you, I’ll join in the bombarment for comrade etheridge-conti

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    • billjones4
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:43am

      http://battlefield.groupfusion.net/

      Schools websiet

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:46am

      HAHAHAHA Notice they are even POLITICALLY CORRECT with the “WINTER BREAK” schedule. We called it CHRISTMAS BREAK and still do! What a bunch of morons we have teaching our kids No wonder they all seem so “confused” and depressed and suicidal. How ridiculous!
      EDUCATE at HOME whenever possible.

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  • virgilrjones
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:27am

    Pencils make a much better weapon when sharpened…but don’t tell THEM or the kids will have to write their essays in black crayon.

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    • bbquizzle
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:32pm

      Why does it have to be a black thing? You tryin’ to say something? We need a whole rainbow coalition of crayons available. Somebody get Virgil a big box of Crayolas.

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  • Nemo13
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:24am

    “The candy canes could be used as weapons by sucking on them and making them have sharp points.” Um…. Get your kids outta that school quick. Talk about whacked out…

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:22am

    Just one more excess by a monopoly maintained at the pleasure of the tyrants. Throw the rascals out!!!!! http://commonsense21c.com/

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  • Capt_Spalding
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:19am

    Maybe if they would have beat the crap out of the females in their group who gave candy canes to guys… then that would be okay and no one would have said a word.

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  • neverending
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:18am

    Oh I am sure it really happened – nothing surprises me anymore. AND yes Glenn Beck does have a book called Christmas Sweater and if you want to cry your eyes out – get it and read it.

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:17am

    Just when you think you’ve heard everything…

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  • byehlik
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:17am

    The Socialist Secularist Teachers Association of America strikes again! That’s the SSTA for short, puts the SS back into what is going on.

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  • roadcouch98
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:16am

    I forget. Refresh My memory. Who funds, and pays taxes to fund these schools, and the ‘idiots’ who use them as their own personal Kindoms ?

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  • mikem1969
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:16am

    Once again, an attack on Christmas and christians. This has to stop. CALLING ALL CHRISTIANS. Stand up for Christ and Christianity, demand the same respect and rights all the other faiths and so called faiths are demanding and getting. SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS WHERE EVER YOU GO, IF IT OFFENDS SOMEONE, OH FREAKING WELL, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE OFFENED.

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  • Capt_Spalding
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:16am

    Giving out candy canes? WHAT were they thinking??!! (uuggghhh…)

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:15am

    “Principal Amy Etheridge-Conti” with your oh so sophisticated, hyphenated last name I would think you would be smart enough not to be so transparent in your liberal hate of Christianity. If Muslim kids celebrated Ramadan, I’m sure you would be very happy with it.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:14am

    Just a reminder: this is what happened in England and now the most popular boy’s name in London is Mohamed.

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  • wodiej
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:13am

    oh my Lord. Suicide rates are up so they should keep their Christmas cheer to themselves. So because some people have chosen not to seek help from professionals, take meds and seek Christ for refuge, the rest of us are supposed to be miserable too? WHACKED OUT. Sounds like some Christmas cheer is what they need not a pity party.

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    • bookofwisdom
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:29pm

      Exactly what I was thinking. If I went to that school I would have committed suicide myself. If you cannot abide Christmas Cheer and say, “discipline was warranted”, but won’t explain why, will that’s not acceptable to me. May God Bless.

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  • kamin
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:13am

    “The candy canes could be used as weapons by sucking on them and making them have sharp points.”

    REALLY? REALLY? Why don’t you Progressives just fall on your backs and pee all over yourselves. The world is being run by crazy people. We need to take it back.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236&hl=en# (The History of Political Correctness)

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:23am

      HA HA HA HA pee on yourself :)

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:27am

      REALLY? REALLY? Why don’t you Progressives just fall on your backs and pee all over yourselves.
      That is the funniest thing I’ve read all day!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

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    • taz1668210
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 7:08pm

      That is funny pee on yourself , merry christmas to all can i say that!!!!

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  • untameable-kate
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:12am

    Is this school by any chance in Ca? Glenn Beck has a book called the Christmas Sweater, Think that might have had something to do with the schools overreaction?

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    • what4
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:28am

      Kate…Gotta be Ca, The loons I have to put up with here…OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:36am

      Battlefield High School is part of the Prince William County Schools in Northern Virginia. Prince William is has a high income and is 54% non-Hispanic White in population and most of the county offices are held by Republicans. Haymarket is an unincorporated area of the county and is 92% White. I have experience with the school district, it is quite conservative. Before you go off on a Beck worthy conspiracy, maybe you should research. (The newscast was Channel 9, WUSA of Washington, D.C.)

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    • Happy Killmore
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:51am

      It doesn’t matter how conservative the neighborhood, town, or state, the teachers will still all be progressives.

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    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:53am

      desertrose1060,

      Where have you been, have not seen any post in awhile. Hope you were able to see my response a couple weeks but the last time we “talked” on the Bristol Palin post……………..MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:28am

      Desert rose, I didn’t know where this school was which is why I asked if someone knew, you jackass. The fact that you are yelping about the WHITE population and the Republican Government there doesn’t have anything to do with my post, it just seems you want to make sure to inject RACE into the conversation, as usual.
      Glenn Beck DID write a story called The Christmas Sweater and I wondered if this was coinsidence or if it was meaningful, considering teachers and school administrators are overwhelmingly liberals and really don’t like Glenn, incase you didn’t know. KMA

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:41am

      @happykillmore, No, in all probability, the teachers will be good little pseudo-Conservatives and Foxbots and would be deeply insulted by your insinuation. I know this district, and some of the teachers who work there. Finding a Liberal is like finding a hen’s tooth.

      @Fed-up. Didn’t see your response. Happy Winter Solstice.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:53am

      @Kate, The report mentions Battlefield High School both in writing and orally, it also mentions the name of the town, Haymarket. You could have done what I did, and Google the information.

      Thank you for your charitable description of me. I wonder, if you can’t read. don’t listen, or know how to use Google, who does it fit more, you or me? Why did I mention that the district is area is overwhelmingly White? Maybe it’s because of lot of them DO like Beck and would be insulted to even have it implied that they might be Liberal; and I know this from personal experience. By all means, please continue to set such a high standard for the civility of Christian patriots everywhere.

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    • HUGS_NOT_DRUGS
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:57am

      @Desertrose1960 – I don’t understand what race has to do with whether or not PWCS are trouble or crazy or conservative. also i wonder where you got your 92% white statistic. As a Hispanic who lives in Haymarket, truly offended, its reasons like these that make me embarassed to be conservative, alongside the rest of my HISPANIC family.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:10pm

      Desert rose, I don’t believe I gave a description of you. I also didn’t bring Christianity into this. Maybe YOU should have someone read the posts to you so you can understand better. I’m pretty sure you were the only one outraged that I asked a question rather than look it up myself. Maybe you should jump off that high horse of yours for a minute and actually read what people write.

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    • janddjohnson
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:20pm

      DesertRose1960
      You are out of line with Untameable-Kate. She just asked a question. What is the deal with you and race? How did the percentage of whites that make up that area even come up? I am completely confused. I think you are a race baiter.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:50pm

      @Fed Up, Well, I don’t know what to say. I suppose I should thank you for doing me the courtesy of reposting your post for my benefit. I find it very disturbing and wonder if you actually considered the implications of your words?

      Victory or Death was George Washington’s motto when he was fighting against the British government in 1776. You do remember that was the American Revolution and that George Washington and all the other Founding Fathers at the Continental Congress were acting traitorously towards their duly constituted government, don’t you. So, invoking the slogan of a mutinous officer who is commiting treason is at least seditious. I also find your rhetoric of “political death” to be very, very threatening. I do support your right to express yourself, but with ideas like you have expressed, screaming at me in all capitals, shows that you do not support my right to express myself.

      As to your opinion that you get to decide who the Constitutionally guaranteed rights apply to, well, sorry, but that might call into question your love of the Constitution. After all, why do you get to decide to change over 200 years of legal interpretations? By the way, did you know that we try Somali pirates in U.S. courts? I was at a roundtable discussion lead by three American, four star Admirals and one Canadian at a conference attended by the navies of at least a dozen nations. The Admirals on the panel were all proud of that, they viewed it as proof of the greatness of the American legal system. (Crimes committed aboard American flagged ships are considered to be on American soil.) I would bet that most of these fine men were conservatives.

      Please do not presume that I wish to lay down arms and reason with terrorists. My point is that if we had treated the Middle East differently, and been more sensitive in the past, we might not be in the present situation. And you can not win a war against a political/tactical weapon. Terrorism is just a weapon, it isn’t an ideology or a nation. If you persist in demonizing a huge group of people through insensitivity and oversimplification, you will only make the situation worse, not better.

      I believe in the values expressed by the Constitution. I admire both Madison and Alexander Hamilton, and recognize their contributions to this nation. Running around wagging the Gadsden flag and shouting about revolution is no way to govern a country. Why does Beck so rarely speak of the men who really created the laws of this country, prefering to invoke the pre-Constitution revolutionaries to the men who actually gave us the Constitution? I am willing to live with the Constitution, as it is currently written, all 27 Amendments. I don‘t want to go back and remove some of them because they don’t agree with pop culture values. Again, you can not save the Constitution by ignoring it or gutting from it the things that you don’t like. This is 2010, not 1776. We are a sovereign nation, with a duly elected government, not some rebel provinces in a far-flung corner of the world.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:09pm

      @JandJohnson, Really, I‘m out of line for answering Kate’s question with facts, and I deserve to be called a vulgarity? I may only be a Liberal, but I was raised better. I answered her question with facts drawn from mulitiple articles in Wikipedia: Haymarket, Virginia; Prince William County, Virginia; and Battlefield High School. Why race? Perhaps to show you Tea people, overwhelmingly White, Protestant, and middle class, that these boys had more in common with you than was supposed by Kate’s presumption that the school had to be in California.

      @Hugs, As listed above, the information can be found in Wikipedia. I am also enclosing a school profile from the district website. Battlefield High School is 58% White, non-Hispanic, a representation of the county as a whole. Not all schools in PWCS have the same demographics. Freedom High School has a large, immigrant Latino population and Potomac has a higher percentage of African-American students. My statistics were to show, again, that these students have more in common with the average Tea person than they differ. If they are White, middle class, and Christian, and probably from Conservative families, how is their punishment something to blame on Liberals and a fake “War Against Christmas”. Did it ever occur to you that they were just being brats and got busted for it?

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:11pm

      @Hugs, My apologies. Here is the school profile as promised.

      http://pwcs.accountability.schoolfusion.us/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/1007118/File/School%20Data%20Profiles/High%20Schools/Battlefield.pdf

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    • biggreenboo
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:49pm

      @desertrose… “92% white” Where the hell did you get that # from. Not even close. Try again!

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:07pm

      He pulled it out of his deck of race cards.

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    • Lonescrapper
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:12pm

      @rose – Dear Rose, We aren’t at war with Pirates. We are at war with terrorism. Pirates are not war criminals. Terrorists are. If you are confused about the handling of war criminals, please feel free to refer to the military code of conduct and the treatment of POW’s. Hope that clears it up for you, though you have way too many misconceptions to correct them all in one reply.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:57pm

      Ah ha ha ha ha, Desert Rose you don’t even read what people post and then accuse others of being illiterate. Fed Up was not screaming at you, he said right in the preface of his post that he put his responses to you in caps to distinguish his posts from yours. You are just being a rude libturd as usual.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 7:33pm

      @Biggreenboo, From the demographics section of the Wikipedia article for Haymarket, VA: “As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 879 people, 321 households, and 234 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,725.2 people per square mile (665.5/km²). There were 337 housing units at an average density of 661.4/sq mi (255.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 92.04% White, 5.35% African American, 0.80% Asian, 0.68% from other races, and 1.14% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.73% of the population.”

      @Lonescrapper, Actually, the prisoners at Guatanamo are not POWs nor are they war criminals. They are “unlawful combatants” and are not covered by the UCMJ or the Geneva Convention. They were sent to Guantanamo because if they had been brought to the United States, they would have been covered by the Constitution, and the Bush Administration didn’t want to give them any of the affore mentioned right. Hope that clears THAT up for you, because you have way too many misconceptions to clear up in hours and hours worth of replies. But, thanks for playing just the same.

      @Fed Up, I repeat, you can not govern if you are adjutating for a revolution. You are using very dangerous metaphors, even if you don’t realize it. I do not think that you would go on a killing spree. I just think, that if the Tea people get their way, and enforce policies to their liking, it will be the death of the Constitution and the two party system. Governing requires compromise, governing requires recognizing the validity of the other side. Your side isn’t currently capable of doing that, and the country will pay dearly if things keep going down this path. I value the Constitution, the tradition of the two party system and the give and take of American politics and civil discourse. Your side, if it hasn’t abandoned these principles, has twisted them into something I no longer recognize.

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    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:28pm

      ROSE1960,

      Thanks for your response and Merry CHRISTmas as well…………….and I actually mean it.

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  • BSdetector
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:11am

    Keep their Christmas cheer to themselves? Welcome to the America our fearless leader is Progressing us to…

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  • Stevsea
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:10am

    Somebody made this up, right? This didn’t really happen, did it?

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    • wildjoker5
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:16am

      This is a prison school if people are getting candy canes for shanks. They must not be using pencils or pens there either. But tablets and laptops are blunt objects. The hands and feet must be shackled too.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:20am

      “The candy canes could be used as weapons by sucking on them and making them have sharp points.” Wow. Might want to take those pens and pencils away from the kids, too.

      And the other administrator suggesting that suicide rates may be up because of people spreading cheer?

      These are the people in charge of educating our youth? What a bunch of idiots. No wonder our children are so screwed up.

      I’d be willing to bet this school distrcit does not allow Christmas parties at school. Where has my America gone…..

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:22am

      I can say with 100% certainty that I have sharpened and stabbed a friend with a candy cane at least once every year.

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    • otoko
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:23am

      It’s time to push back. Have your kids fight back and protest and you should join them, if we can get enough of us banded together instead of just talking about it then we will see some action. File lawsuits for infringement of our rights we are being pushed around by 20% of the population. And we are giving in. Fight back people. Stop being bullied by them. if 3/4 of student bodies walked out in protest the school can’t expel them all as a group. It is time for non-violent resistance at all levels of our life. Push the libs out instead of them pushing us out.

       
    • SmokinBugsy
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:23am

      So sad how far we have fallen! GOD help US all!

       
    • patriotdale
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:24am

      Sadly I believe it did happen. The anti Chritian movement is marching forward in a politically correct world. We need to condem PC before our freedoms are taken away for ever.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:26am

      Hey Folks! Don’t get distracted by all this STUFF. The all out war on Christmas, the TSA 90%+ failure rates in airport screening….whatever it is. It is all part of the Soros/Van Jones attack machine doing all they can to overwhelm the system via the media. Recent terror threats indicate potential attacks using poisons in buffet lines in food courts. For that matter it could be anything. Point is don’t loose focus. Bottom up, Inside Out and Top Down. They know if they overwhelm the system most people will be distracted and worried. Then most of the people i.e SHEEPLE will be willing to have the government come to the rescue. That is what they want. Get prepared. Hang tough and Merry Christmas.

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    • c10win
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:26am

      “…That suicide rates are up over Christmas, and that they should keep their cheer to themselves, perhaps.” Yes, let’s not cheer up those thinking of killing themselves.

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    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:41am

      Good God, this is incredible. But not to be surprised as most all schools now are hard line against “CHRISTMAS” as it has CHRIST and being we are a so called Christian Nation we don’t want to offend the non Christians. This is why we are heading down the road to destruction. We have lost our way by voting in weak mined GOD HATERS who have control over everything from our children to the decisions we make day in and day out.

      Time to get rid of them all and bring back men and women who are not afraid of the ACLU, the progressive GOD HATERS and are willing to take a stand for the good of our Nation………………….anyone see the bloody footprints in the snow………………………VICTORY OR DEATH

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:45am

      Hey Fed Up And Ready To Take Action

      Double Ditto! People better wake the H** up. Or when they come for you there will no one to help you.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:47am

      If this would have involved any other group of kids, nothing would have been done or said; just due to them wanting to spread the christmas cheer for the season they are singled out and attacked. This age of PC garbage has to come to an end and get our schools back to the values that make this land the greatest of the world, and not making a generation of PC kids afraid to say or do anything.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • huufarted
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:56am

      For those of you who would like to provide feedback to Ms. Amy Ethridge-Conti here is her contact info. please call and tell her how you feel !
      at work:

      15000 Graduation Drive
      Haymarket, VA 20169-2576
      Phone:(571) 261-4400
      or
      at home:
      Amy S Ethridge-conti
      15000 Graduation Dr
      Haymarket, VA 20169
      (571) 261-4450

       
    • guyperram
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:02am

      I think the school administrator should stop sucking on lemons. These terrorist kids were desperately trying to assault other students with their super dangerous weapons, Christmas Candy Canes. The Marxists running our school systems are nuts!

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    • huufarted
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:07am

      If you wish to print her picture and toss darts at it here it is:

      http://battlefieldhs.schools.pwcs.edu/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=80430&sessionid=e9f35ff563471742cbf0ba1646dce7ac

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    • urrybr
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:42am

      Are you flippin’ sh@##@*!!ing me? what a bunch of pansies.

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    • Curator_JDR
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:58am

      Ridiculous. Pure hatred of religion and anything attached to morality. Pure hatred of our culture, traditions and anything American. Candy-Canes as weapons? If atheists had an “atheist stick” they carried around, it would be as holy and untouchable as the Koran.

      Pure Progressive-Dada. Destroy/ridicule religion. Video Expose http://www.marcrubin.com/dada2.ivnu

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:19pm

      Everyone needs to let the school hear the outrage. Demand that those responsible get fired. People must be held accountable or you’ll just get more of this insanity.

      CultureWarriors  
    • watchmany2k
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:21pm

      It would be funny if it were not real.

      I sent this to the school security head:
      gatelydl@pwcs.edu

      Hi

      I am concerned, do you wear candy-cane proof vests ?

      I think you should requisition them and issue them to all school safety officers.

      -Watchman in Maine

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    • grholmes
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:26pm

      If the young men were football or basketball players, nothing would have happened to them. We worship athletics instead of God. That’s why schools and our country are in trouble!

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    • Anonn
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:33pm

      Here it is again. Tell her how you feel about the way she and her staff treated those boys.

      Principal
      Mrs. Amy Ethridge-Conti
      ethridas@pwcs.edu

       
    • Phoenixsoulfire
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:37pm

      Well the principal said not everyone wants Christmas Cheer and suicide rate is up? If we spread more Christmas Cheer there would be less suicides going on. We are destroying ourselves with PC

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    • watchmany2k
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:40pm

      I just started a candy-cane proof vest biz
      The “gumdrop” regular version is guaranteed to stop the small 2 inch candy canes.
      Comfy to wear and can be munched on in a prolonged candy cane seige.
      For the larger Candy-Canes, we are coming out with a line of gingerbread ballistic inserts.
      We also carry lemon drop spray, that prevents unruly students from being able to suck their candy-cane into a point.

      Get them and other survival equipment here:

      http://www.watchman2012.com

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:50pm

      Those who dropped litter are the litterers! Not the other way around. Is McDonalds the cause of litter when they sell you a meal through the drive through then you cast it out along the I-70 through the beautiful Rockys. No! Same here. Talk about looking hard to falsely bring some kind of charge to hang them with. Sounds very familiar…!

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:52pm

      It’s time to get the progressives OUT OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS! It’s bordering on the extremely ridiculous in this country. POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is out of control, it’s time to restore SANITY to the American public. If you don’t believe the progressives are in the public school systems, pick up a copy of the American history textbooks being used in our public schools this school year, when I did it was very different than what I read about in the late 60′s when I attended school. Most of today‘s youth are CLUELESS when it comes to the Founding Fathers and names and dates of the Revolutionary War and the early struggles this country faced in it’s first few years of independence. It’s up to all of us to make sure the next generation KNOWS THE FACTUAL HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY.

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    • James
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:57pm

      Sadly, this is probably true. I can think of 1,000 things in a high school that are more dangerous than a two inch candy cane. What about a compass that is used to draw circles? You could kill a horse with one of those things. This is nothing more than anti-Christmas PC BS.

      http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/

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    • nptden
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:12pm

      Isn’t it GREAT…to have Progressive/Marxists run our schools. They sure know how to use rules…

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:26pm

      Thanks to every one on the Blaze that posted contact info. I noticed that we haven’t brought the schools computers down yet :(

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    • The_Jashugan
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:59pm

      Yea, maybe they should ban the pencils, pens, lab scalpels, staplers, weights, baseball bats, high heal shoes, metal under wire of bras (they can scratch like something fierce!!) and iPods/ MP3 Players cause you could swing and throw them really hard! Wow really? Alright Ladies and Gents, since Kathleen Flannery was told by an administrator that her child’s actions lead to suicide, and the skol‘s website was kind enough to show the administrator’s partitioned off section of the student body to which they are responsible, you might want to ask her directly how spreading Cheer is enabling suicide.:
      Assistant Principal
      Mrs. Lisa Zdravecky
      zdravelm@pwcs.edu

      Students Supervised: Last Names Hb – Ma
      Departments Supervised: Health & Physical Education, Mathematics

      Secretary: Ms. Wendy Blackwell, (571) 261-4416

      Where is her math stats on this from what Health Org or Physical Education institute does she get her figures? Havana? Moscow? Beijing? Hmmm I am voting Moscow from the name. She is so Greinch that even her secretary is named Blackwell… wait lets not go there. Lets go here
      When I was in high skol, our principle’s jobs seemed to consist of being paid 60 grand a year to gab all day on a walkie talkie and pick up trash. The school is not that big, why so many chiefs? Seems strange to me. Ah yes, the yearly tradition of Government waste. A waste. Just like any administrator that would go so low as to get people in trouble for saying, essentially, “Enjoy this time of year, here let me help you do that. Have this candy.”

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    • Flagwaver
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:12pm

      Frakking progressives. Suicide rates are higher because of lack of hope. These kids are spreading hope by letting others know they are thinking of them. When people see them punished for spreading cheer, do you not think that will get them depressed? What about the students that were trying to spread the joy?

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    • Edct
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:18pm

      Liberal idiots in our educational system…they all need to be fired and start over with real Americans who are Christians and not ashamed of it.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:03pm

      Wow … now Candy Canes are dangerous … only if you run with one you have sucked to a point!

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    • poozak
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:03pm

      We can send a cheery Christmas Wish to the principal by email or fax: Principal
      Mrs. Amy Ethridge-Conti
      ethridas@pwcs.edu

      Secretary: Ms. Faye Henry, (571) 261-4450

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    • American Jingoist
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:26pm

      This is the Principal‘s email address if you’d like to show your support for the boys spreading Christmas Cheer ( ethridas@pwcs.edu ). Just another Liberal in charge of teaching your children.

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    • Major Infidel
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:02pm

      I sent a nice warm “Holiday” greeting to our Comrade at Battlefield High.

      I hope you all do the same. :)

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    • Bobcats2011
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:03pm

      Well it makes sense.I go to Battlefield, everyone says Ms. Ethridge-Conti is like Wiccan or something.

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    • Buck Bagaw
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:26pm

      There is no rule that teachers have to be intelligent. This story pretty much bears that out. What a witch( yeah, I meant to hit the “W” key)!!!

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:44pm

      I would be pissed if someone threw a candy cane at me at 7:00 in the morning. Asking someone if they’d like a candy cane and handing it to them is one thing, using it as a projectile (regardless of the intent) is definitely not appropriate in school. I say the punishment fits the crime – clean up and two hours of detention.

      School sucks, get over it. Stop trying to turn this into something bigger than it is.

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    • JayCee
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 6:50pm

      “Mother Kathleen Flannery said a administrator called her and explained that, “not everyone wants Christmas cheer. That suicide rates are up over Christmas, and that they should keep their cheer to themselves, perhaps.”

      Tell that administator to just hang in there for a couple more years. It will get better. Not worth offing yourself just because you voted for Obama. We will forgive you this time.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 7:10pm

      A big thank you to @huufarted! Please be courteous and only call until 9;00 pm local time.
      But melt the line at school!!!!!! She will get both barrels from me! Unless she has a suitable explanation…..one of which I cannot think of right now. Attempt one is busy…..well I’ll call back.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 9:41pm

      To PatriotDale;

      The anti Chritian movement is marching forward in a politically correct world. We need to condem PC before our freedoms are taken away for ever.

      I’m not arguing here, but I’d like to know where you got the idea that the sweaters and candy canes were “Christian”. Seems to me that the comment was that the kids trying to find the “wackiest” sweaters they could and the candy canes, while admittedly Christian in origin, aren’t necessarily associated with Christianity these days. Most people think of them as an addition to their hot chocolate.

      Unless you know of something was said or done that directly links it to Christianity, I’d be careful of making that statement, simply because that’s what the Liberals want us to believe. Not all that long ago, a Florida elementary school reportedly banned the colors red and green, and the district had to jump through hoops to explain that it was a misunderstanding. They ended up with major fall out. So, I’m perfectly happy to let this principal step into the kimchee as deeply as she wants to. I hope the parents hire lawyers for their kids. These are students, not prisoners. They are kids, not professional business people. They have the rest of their lives to act like adults. Life is hard. I guess this principal feels that no one should spread a little cheer. Maybe she should look for a job as a prison warden instead of a position in a high school.

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:21am

      And yet has anyone noticed the terrific sweaters? It would make Glenn Beck cry….
      Those sweaters are awesome!
      I would call the principle, but I have no faith in public schools and I have to say is “you get what you pay for”
      Poor kids, they have parents who are afraid to be out of the box. Who will they learn from?

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:54am

      I’d like to know what happened around 1960-1970 that made the 40 something leaders of countless communities so screwed up in their thinking these days.
      Seriously, it’s like an epidemic with a loss of common sense. What the heck is up with this country?

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:35am

      Maybe if there was more cheer, there’d be fewer suicides. Just an idea. DIMWIT. And the administrators are the ones who make the big bucks.

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    • kathystone
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:52am

      The history of the candy cane is exactly what this is about. You could not profess being a Christian in ancient times. The red is for the blood or Christ that washes us clean and makes us white as snow. So the Joke is on the school board!

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:37am

      Being a Christian, I have no problem with incorporating a symbolism to the candy cane, but it was not originally designed that way. It’s misleading to say so.
      Rumors spread so easily, especially in the age of the internet. People should check facts before continuing the spreading of false rumors.

      http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/candycane.asp

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 8:21am

      The left Hate God……..love abortions and Sodomey……God Please help us

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 8:23am

      If this would have been reversed and the MUSIMS were handing out the Koran this principal would have said nothing

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 8:29am

      Seems that they can let students copulate on the dance floor but they cant exhibit CHRISTmas

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 9:05am

      candy canes almost resemble fish hooks, the early christian symbol was the fish, now do you get it? These kids were trying to lure others into the faith with tasty fish hook shaped treats

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 9:09am

      I bet these scofflaws will challenge authority even more by putting the flag on their bikes or passing out mini flags near Memorial Day. It is not too late to re-educate them.

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    • Luckywon
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 11:04am

      LOL, Anyone else think the name of the school was funny in reference to this story? At Battlefield High, anything can be a weapon. It’s part of the training.

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    • cookiecutter
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:47pm

      Incomplete story….These kids were saying “Merry F__in Christmas” and throwing the candy canes AT the students DURING school. That’s the facts. My kids go there. Battlefield HS is being unfairly judged.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:32pm

      Someone had to make this up cause no clear minded adult would consider this an act that deserves punishment. Would I ask the kids clean up any mess from it, sure, then I would wish them a very Merry Christmas!

      PatriotShops.com

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    • gopsnativeson
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 9:01pm

      Welcome to OBAMA NATION.

      Say that fast a few times & you get the direction of our country under this adminsitration.

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    • mayortj
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 10:09pm

      What the hell, this should be non-news item!

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