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Colorado second-grader suspended for throwing IMAGINARY grenade during recess
Fox31 Denver ^ | February 4, 2013 | David Mitchell and Julie Hayden

Posted on 02/05/2013 11:41:42 AM PST by tom h

KDVR NEWS – A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it.

“It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says.

He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.

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The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary. ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childdispended; childsuspended; eduction; guncontrol; gunhysteria; leftistidiots; publicschools; schoolgunhysteria; schools; secondamendment; studentsuspended; teachersunions; zerotolerance
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To: tom h

We had an unlimited supply of them when I was a kid.


21 posted on 02/05/2013 12:14:49 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: tom h

Next, Holder will prosecute the kid for violating the imaginary civil rights of the imaginary evil in the box.


22 posted on 02/05/2013 12:15:47 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: tom h

The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary”

It is a short stretch from this to say no competition: sports, music festivals, art shows, ...

And then into the classroom: no scoring of tests (you are ‘fighting’ against other students when they grade on the curve). And no scissors (self defense weapon).

This stuff is not funny anymore. Hard to puke when you are all puked out.

PS As a kid, I actually carved myself a full sized grenade from a piece of wood and threw it around the yard as needed.


23 posted on 02/05/2013 12:16:55 PM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: tom h
If the kid didn't pull the imaginary pin first, then what's the problem?

-PJ

24 posted on 02/05/2013 12:18:14 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: tom h

The goal is psychological castration, real men are a threat to the order.


25 posted on 02/05/2013 12:18:21 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: tom h
The time has long past where Americans should stop sending their children to these Government Schools.
They don't get much of an education, and the children get exposed to continual sessions of socialist and atheistic brain washing.
I suppose launching a 'pretend hand grenade' does not fall into either categories of socialism and atheism -- but it is consistent with the theme of brain-washing and intimidating the children to become docile slaves of the State.

There are plenty of education resources available and it is time to starve the Government School beast.

26 posted on 02/05/2013 12:19:59 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: tom h

Mom is keeping son at home until this can be resolved. WRONG ANSWER.

Mom should be down at the school, with her son, very clearly and carefully explaining the difference between PLAY and DANGER and encouraging every other parent to stop and do the EXACT SAME THING.

When confronting gross stupidity, you MUST CONFRONT IT. You not only need to expose it to others, but you have to shine a spotlight on it in person.


27 posted on 02/05/2013 12:21:12 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Scrambler Bob
"As a kid, I actually carved myself a full sized grenade from a piece of wood and threw it around the yard as needed."

My parents bought me a toy grenade when I was a boy, totally realistic and made from real steel. I remember throwing it once at my brother, hitting him in the nose, and making his nose bleed.

Come to think of it, he was my older brother and he constantly bullied me. The thought that I got him back that time makes me smile, all these years later.

28 posted on 02/05/2013 12:21:42 PM PST by tom h
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To: tom h

It’s stories like this that shed light on why Odumbo is still in the white hut.


29 posted on 02/05/2013 12:22:28 PM PST by ZX12R
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To: tom h

My dad was in the Navy and brought home training grenades we used in our never-ending war against the Nazis/Japanese Imprerial troops. Perfect, had a lot of heft to them, for sure. Honestly, I don;t know how we did not brain each other with those pineapples. ;)


30 posted on 02/05/2013 12:31:04 PM PST by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: tom h
Did the hand grenade really have anything to do with the punishment? Was he punished for attempting to save the world from evil rather than global warming?
31 posted on 02/05/2013 12:31:34 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: tom h; Revolting cat!

An imaginary alleged grenade?


32 posted on 02/05/2013 12:34:11 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: tom h

When I was in second grade, for show and tell, I brought a Mk 2 grenade, an M79 grenade and a foot long linked belt of 30 caliber machine gun ammo. They were all inert, but still, if I did that today, I’d be in jail for life.


33 posted on 02/05/2013 12:36:04 PM PST by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: ZX12R
It’s stories like this that shed light on why Odumbo is still in the white hut.

Last year was the 40th anniversary of the President's pal and backer William Ayers' bombing of the Pentagon. The media and schools were silent.

This nation is seriously f***ed. Those in charge of education (like Ayers) and this nation's security do NOT have America's interests at heart.

34 posted on 02/05/2013 12:36:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: tom h

The mind boggles. Sometimes there is just nothing left to do but to point and laugh.


35 posted on 02/05/2013 12:38:36 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Ramius

or cry.


36 posted on 02/05/2013 12:41:19 PM PST by justice14 ("Christ is Victorious" // twitter; @rjustice21)
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To: tom h

I’m 56-years-old. When I was a boy, my pals and I frequently played “Army,” in which we battled the bad guys (German Nazis) and won the day.

These games were inspired by the experiences of our fathers who, in the main, were veterans of World War II. We were proud of our fathers and hoped that, someday, we might become half the men they proved to be in the crusade to conquer Hitler, Tojo, etc.

Such games were played on the playground at my Catholic elementary in the early 1960s. No nun or lay teacher objected. The memories of war were fresh in their minds. They understood that the future would inevitably yield new Hitlers and that American GIs would be needed to foil the designs of such monsters.

Consequently they educated us with the goal of turning boys into intelligent and productive men. Those who would impede this education are little more than fellow travelers with our Islamic enemies.

Punishing a kid for pretending to throw a grenade? The child should be encouraged in his pretend battle against evil. There may come a day he’ll be called upon to perform the real thing.


37 posted on 02/05/2013 12:51:12 PM PST by MadeInOhio
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To: a fool in paradise
This nation is seriously f***ed. Those in charge of education (like Ayers) and this nation's security do NOT have America's interests at heart.

What you say is not only true, but it couldn't possibly be any clearer. To anyone paying any attention, that is. The problem is that the majority of voters and leaders are both blind and stupid and we are now seeing the price of so much ignorance and stupidity. And they are proud of themselves. So, yes, we are seriously f***ed.
38 posted on 02/05/2013 12:55:53 PM PST by ZX12R
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To: tom h

When imaginary grenades are outlawed,only outlaws will have imaginary grenades.ALL YOUR IMAGINARY GRENADE ARE BELONG TO US...sheeesh!!!!


39 posted on 02/05/2013 1:03:24 PM PST by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: tom h

Good grief, not only did we throw “pretend” grenades during recess, some idiot thought it was a good idea to cover our entire playground with huge wood chips (many of them were the size of a pork chop and about 1/2” thick).

It was a wood chip hurricane when the lunch lady turned her back.


40 posted on 02/05/2013 1:10:30 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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