Police Called to Home After Classmate Spots a Toy Gun on Zoom

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The officer was put in a spot. He had no authority to search the house, so he has a parent against parent for whose word he should take. He has to assume the parent who made the call knows what a gun looks like (many toy guns look like real ones, and that would be even more so if you saw them on-line in the background rather than in person). He opted to err on the side of safety. If there had been a real unsecured gun & a child hurt/killed with it, he would be at fault for not doing something and could be fired or sued.

As for the Zoom meetings, I am going to give policies and procedures, laws which will explain why this happened. I am NOT advocating calling police because someone had a toy gun. However, if you are a parent and we go into home schooling again in August, you need to know these things.

Zoom school meetings are essentially school functions since hosted by the school. One would have hoped that the school had sent out a warning to parents early on that things like weapons (toy or real), alcohol, drugs, sex toys should not be in view and how the camera should be facing an empty wall and preferably in a quiet area of the house. Lots of people have gotten into trouble or been embarrassed during Zoom meetings (somebody walking behind them naked/in underwear, yelling obscenities, drinking, smoking a bong, etc.) Most parents should be smart enough to figure that out on their own, though.

The problem is that many states have mandated reporting laws which require individuals who work around kids to make an immediate report if they see ANYTHING which could be considered dangerous or harmful to a child. The teacher falls into that position and so do many parents, too, with PTO, Scouts, school volunteering, and they have to sign papers and take training before being allowed to work with the kids. So if one of those individuals saw an unsecure gun near a young child (yes, many toys look real), then the chances of being reported are pretty great.

In addition, if you have a special needs child, teachers are NOT allowed to hold a meeting with just SPED kids. That is against privacy laws. You can have SPED kids in the meeting, but there have to be regular education students in the meeting as well so as not to point out who has learning issues.

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Fuck off karen. My parents had unsecure and loaded guns in every room of the house i grew up in. Why? Because after the 68 riots they knew what could happen. Guess what? Im fine. Why? Because back then retards died and people accepted it. And like most people, Im not a retard.

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You are not reading my post correctly. I am merely stating facts as to why the police were called so that other parents wouldn't fall victim to this type of thing. I made no statement of agreeing with the police being called. So, why don't you take your 2nd grade reading comprehension elsewhere?

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You are not reading my post correctly. I am merely stating facts as to why the police were called so that other parents wouldn't fall victim to this type of thing. I made no statement of agreeing with the police being called. So, why don't you take your 2nd grade reading comprehension elsewhere?

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You reek of justification.

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You reek of justification.

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Fuck off karen. My parents had unsecure and loaded guns in every room of the house i grew up in. Why? Because after the 68 riots they knew what could happen. Guess what? Im fine. Why? Because back then retards died and people accepted it. And like most people, Im not a retard.