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| Andrew Mikel II is a really dangerous kid. |
Surely most of you have been involved in a spitball fight sometime in your life. Well, in Virginia, spit wads are no considered a deadly weapon punishable by expulsion just as if you were brining a gun to school to create the next Columbine.
Don't believe me? Just ask Andrew Mikel II, who is having to defend himself for doing something many kids do. Mikel says "it was a stupid thing to do." Oh brother, notice how they shame a kid into honoring a tradition of boredom in the classroom. Ok, spitball fights aren't academic excellence and they shouldn't go on in the classroom, but to treat a straw and wad of paper like it's a gun is just ridiculous.
That's what they did at Spotsylvania High School after Mikel's sharp eye and steady hand scored three direct hits in the middle of lunch.
The school district saw it as more than a childish prank. School officials expelled him for possession and use of a weapon, and they called a deputy sheriff to the scene, said Mikel and his father, Andrew Mikel Sr.
Sad isn't it. The principle of this Virginia school couldn't handle a student shooting spit wads. In fact, this principle is so unassertive he trumped up the charges and wasted the Sheriff's offices resources and time, and sadly enough, the sheriff's office came and humiliated this kid. I probably would have laughed in the sheriff's face asking him to find one instance in the last 50 years where a spit wad shot from the school's cafeteria led to the death of a student. Good grief!
Oh but school officials trumped up the charges in a Billy Long sort of way. They described the lunchroom straw as a metal tube and the projectiles as metal B-Bs. You know, you wouldn't want Spotsylvania High School looking anymore stupid than it already does.
