Posted on 01/24/2013 2:54:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Melody Valentin, a fifth-grader in Philadelphia, Penn., was reportedly searched in front of her class and called a murderer for having a piece of paper that looked like a gun, The Blaze reported Thursday.
According to Dianna Kelly, the girl's mother, her grandfather made the "gun" for her the previous day using a folded piece of paper with a corner torn out of it.
When the girl went to throw the piece of paper away, a boy in her class saw it and called school administrators.
"He yelled at me and said I shouldn't have brought the gun to school and I kept telling him it was a paper gun but he wouldn't listen," she said.
Kelly said the school staff searched her in the presence of her classmates and Valentin said she was scolded in front of the class.
The Blaze reported that the school administrator allegedly threatened to have her arrested, while other students called her a “murderer.”
Kelly, who is furious about the incident, has kept her daughter out of the class to avoid further harassment and says she wants her daughter out of the school permanently.
“Why did he threaten my daughter?" she asked. "Why did you stand over my daughter and tell her that you should call the cops on her? ‘You can be arrested?’ Why were you trying to scare her?”
Calls to the school district were not returned...
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A.) My children and stepchildren are grown and (B.) that’s up to the family, not outsiders.
Ping
I’ve seen innumerable posts, here and elsewhere, saying,
I will no longer shop at Penney’s
I’ll never shop at Home Depot anymore
I won’t spend my tourist dollars in California
I won’t be going to Florida
From now on, only “made in the USA”
I’m not staying with GEICO
I cut up my Bank of America card
Closing my Wells Fargo account...
But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post saying,
That does it, I’m taking my kids out of public school!
Both parents work to sustain the household? How did their household get so hard to sustain? Did a bigger house mean more to them than their children’s minds and the future of the nation? Or a car loan? An extra car, and extra wardrobe, for that second job? Entertainment, cable tv, dinner out, vacations?
People sacrifice to afford what they value. If they’re putting their kids in government schools, that’s a reflection of their values.
Anyone can afford to homeschool. Anyone.
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