Veteran Banned from Daughter's School after posting picture of CCL (GA)

[mugsy]

Here's the link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/05/army-veteran-banned-from-daughters-school-after-posting-picture-concealed/?intcmp=latestnews

Here is the cut/pasted text:

An Army veteran living in Georgia says she wants an apology from her daughter's former school after being banned from the building for posting a photo of her concealed weapons permit to her Facebook page, WRDW.com reports.

Tanya Mount says she was approached by a police officer from the Richmond County Board of Education at McBean Elementary School and was warned that she was about to get a criminal trespass warning.

"I am a private person, however after serving OUR country, it is my DUTY to make sure that our lives are not infringed upon, however do it all within the confinements of the LAW, I am a law abiding citizen"

- Tanya Mount

The officer told her that the principal at the school was “scared” of her and did not want her on the school property, she told the station.

"He asks: 'Were you in the Army?,"' she said. "I said, yes. He's like, 'Do you have a concealed weapons permit?' I said yes," she told the station.

A phone call from FoxNews.com to Richmond County Board of Education was not immediately returned. WJBF.com asked Janina Dallas, the school's principal, if the "no trespass order" was issued over the post, and Dallas responded: "Yes, it was." "It is my duty and responsibility as the principal of this school to ensure the safety and security of all of our faculty, staff and students," Dallas told WJBF.com.

Mount reportedly said, "I feel that this is some high school crap." She is calling for a public apology.

"I am a private person. However, after serving OUR country, it is my DUTY to make sure that our lives are not infringed upon. However, do it all within the confinements of the LAW, I am a law-abiding citizen," Mount posted on Facebook after the uproar.

Other posts on Mount's Facebook page are photographs of children trick-or-treating and recipes for pork tenderloin.

Her daughter has since transferred from the school.
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On the face of it, this sounds outrageous but I'd guess there is something else behind this...like personal animosity or previous head-butting. Nevertheless the idea that possessing a legal carry permit could be used as justification for a ban from school is unacceptable - IMO.

What say you?

 

[Fyrtwuck]

The officer told her that the principal at the school was “scared” of her and did not want her on the school property, she told the station.

Why was she scared of her? Have they had prior conflicts before and now that she knows this person has a gun makes her more so?

The threat of trespassing simply for letting everyone know she has a permit by posting a permit on Facebook is not justification for trespassing charges. If thats all it takes to scare her, she needs to go home and lock herself in a basement.

 

[SMS]

Couple thoughts:

1) The school's reaction was retarded.
2) Posting a picture of your permit on Facebook is retarded, especially when you claim to be a "private person".
3) Her status as a "veteran" is irrelevant...it would be equally unjust if this had happened to a non vet.
4) There's more to the story.

 

[uncle money bags]

Couple thoughts:

1) The school's reaction was retarded.
2) Posting a picture of your permit on Facebook is retarded, especially when you claim to be a "private person".
3) Her status as a "veteran" is irrelevant...it would be equally unjust if this had happened to a non vet.
4) There's more to the story.

That about sums it up.

 

[RetiredTater]

Sounds like one of things I saw when doing the whole job search thing this past year. Was in an informal phone interview, she asked if I was a Veteran, and I said yes. She asked if I had PTSD, I said I decline to comment. She said she needed to know if I was going to freak out or anything so she was going to ask. I ended the call citing the HIPA.

 

[mons meg]

Sounds like one of things I saw when doing the whole job search thing this past year. Was in an informal phone interview, she asked if I was a Veteran, and I said yes. She asked if I had PTSD, I said I decline to comment. She said she needed to know if I was going to freak out or anything so she was going to ask. I ended the call citing the HIPA.

Would be tempted to say "No, do you have herpes?" in response to that question.

 

[henschman]

If you turn your child over to the state for her education, it is guaranteed that you will at some point come up against small-minded and idiotic bureaucrats like this.

 

[Defnestor]

I think any concerned group of parents who cannot afford traditional private schooling should form their own private school. Lessons are available on line for free. Take turns with the kids, whatever it takes. The public school system in this country is so dumbed down now that kids can't even read the diplomma they get at the end of High school. Sound out the folks you shoot with, your fellow parishioners, your extended family. It's simply not safe to leave your kids in the hands of state employees.

 

[mons meg]

Encourage your legislators to float a universal education tax credit next session. It needs to be no questions, if your kids are not in public school, you get $$$ back per child not enrolled. That will really shake up education in OK.

 

[ricman]

This principal is an idiot. Ban the criminals...there may be more to this story.