You know, I just looked back at the first post again, and I'm not sure it's totally impossible. It's possible the problem is more in the writing/reading of the original post. Read it over once more:
My youngest daughter, 8 years old, was expelled from school. Her crime? Not doing a class assignment. Here's where it real good. The assignment was what kind of firearms are in your home and WHERE ARE THEY KEPT? My daughter told the teacher that was private information. Daughter was told to do it or be expelled. She took expulsion. I went to the school and met with the principal. We then had the teacher come down to explain her actions. The teacher went into a rant saying weapons were evil, that people who owned them were evil. She then said the assignments that had been completed(several others refused or turned in blank papers) were turned over to the police so that when the next president is in office, they'll order the complete seizure of all firearms! Even the principal was shocked at her attitude. He told me my daughter could come back to school in a different class. Right now, I'm considering all my options for her education. Is this the new norm in schools or is this out of the ordinary?
OK, now notice a few things:
1. He doesn't say she was expelled. He says the teacher threatened her with expulsion and she "took expulsion." That could just be the daughter saying "Fine, expel me." Now, every teacher
should know better than to threaten to do something he can't deliver, because it's inevitable that kids will call your bluff. But it's possible that this one was dumb enough to say something like that. Hell, there was a substitute who called kids names in a local district this year. Remember the guy, right after 9/11, who burned an American flag in his classroom? There are dumb teachers and crazy teachers out there.
2. There's no explanation of what the principal thought about the daughter's expulsion. When OldSoldier says the daughter can "come back with a different teacher" it does kind of sound like she missed at least one day of school, but was that because she was expelled? Was it because she went home? Was it just sloppy word choice? We don't know.
3. From the sound of it, I'm sure the teacher got a reaming when the doors closed behind Oldsoldier, but he wouldn't have been privy to that, nor should he be. That teacher, if the incident happened the way Oldsoldier describes it, won't last. They might let her finish the year, or they might not. She's obviously overwhelmed and getting unstable, if the story is accurate. There might be some mental illness surfacing here. There's nobody in the presidential race who's going to dare to order confiscations, for example, no matter who wins. It's almost like she's some kind of paranoid conspiracy theorist, only she thinks she's part of the conspiracy.
4. Oldsoldier answered his own question about whether this is normal or not. Why would the principal be shocked by the norm?
And why even bother saying "even the principal was shocked"? Did you think the principal was going to agree with this teacher that it's her job to gather gun confiscation registries from school children? That seems like the sort of thing that would make just about anybody do a double-take, doesn't it?