The only time I really heard this talked about was in elementary school, and finger guns were never a threat at the school I went to. Not even once, but the teachers and administration would harp on about it like kids were demonic for making them.

Yes, it's short for "cooperative". All of "coop", "co-op", and "coöp" are all technically correct (historically cooperative was spelled coöperative and co-operative), but co-op is probably the best to use because "coop" usually refers to chicken coops.

Unless every browser decides to allow scripting in a less shotgun-your-foot language, javascript will remain widely used.

It's called web assembly, and all the major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) now support it. That's not to say that Javascript is going to disappear, but other languages might take over much of its marketshare.

But they should be covered under the 1st amendment. The problem is that children don't have many rights in the US.

No. It's hysterical admins using lousy logic to conclude that finger guns = violence. The logic is something along the lines of finger guns = real guns = killing people.

Ah, I see. So being "devalued" is like mixing base metals in your gold coins, while "cheap money" is like loaning out the treasury. Both contribute to inflation, but in different ways.