Posted on 06/01/2013 9:06:25 AM PDT by IbJensen
Ok, come on. It seems like school officials are going nuts these days. Kids can't play "Cowboys and Indians," because that could lead to gun "violence." (Not to mention that the game is so un-PC.) Kids can't think of a gun, draw a gun, or even hold their fingers in the shape of a gun. So imagine what happened when a 5-year-old child brought a cap gun to school.
As reported by The Washington Post, "a kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school"
The child was questioned for more than two hours before his mother was called, she said, adding that he uncharacteristically wet his pants during the episode. The boy is 5 -- "all bugs and frogs and cowboys," his mother said.
"I have no problem that he had a consequence to his behavior," said the mother, who asked that her name be withheld to protect her son's privacy.
"What I have a problem with is the severity," she said, and the way it was handled.
According to the story on The Daily Caller, the boy brought the gun to school "because his friend had brought a water gun the previous day. He later told his mother than he 'really, really' wanted his friend to see it."
So... the boy brings a orange-tipped, cap gun to school and gets suspended for 10 days and gets "questioned" by school officials for two hours. Two hours!
Schools have gone completely overboard. But get this... consider what would have happened to the little boy if the cap gun has actually been "loaded." The Washington Post reports that "it would have been deemed an explosive and police would have been called in." An explosive? Has everyone gone insane? Would they have sent in the bomb squad to "disarm" this device?
"The school was quite obviously taking it very seriously, and he's 5 years old," she said. "Why were we not immediately contacted?"
The family's attorney, Robin Ficker, said that the age of the child is important and that the incident could have been used as a teachable moment.
"Kids play cowboys and Indians," he said. "They play cops and robbers. You're talking about a little 5-year-old here."
I feel so bad for this little boy, and if there are any penalties enforced, they should be against the school officials. Let's have some common sense for a change!
I hope the family’s lawyer takes those idiots at the school apart. What ever happened to the days when a teacher just had a chat with the kid and told them not to bring toy guns to school any more? Why didn’t they call the mother immediately if they thought it was a major “crime”? I hope the parents of other children at this school stand up and raise Hell.
All institutions where the central socialist government has a hand in is evil personified.
Anybody who sends their kid to a government school is guilty of child endangerment.
Good questions. I assume this happens because of unthinking “zero tolerance” type rules. And guns, even toy guns, are considered evil.
Now if he brought condoms to school, and talked about being gay, I wonder what the reaction of school officials would have been????
If a school official had done this to my 5 year old granddaughter I would have given the official a “teachable moment.”
That official would have suffered far worse than soiled underpants as well.
This kind of governmental BS just burns me up.
School administrators are wasting their time on episodes like this. They’ve lost their moral compass, and just drifting around with no real grasp or understanding of society around them.
MEANWHILE al Qaeda is armed with MANPADS,
weaponized by FAST&FURIOUS,
and terrorist warnings are ignored,
with links along the humint pathway “dying” by the week.
Wake up America, it is almost too late.
Just another example of child abuse being committed by the indoctrinators at the public “schools”.
All institutions where the central socialist government has a hand in is evil personified.
...welcome to the world of feminism drunk with power...the games of boyhood need to be sanitized so as to pass muster with the effete gendered elite...
It’s just plain child abuse to send your kids off to these monsters.
Unbelievable. Two hours without calling up his parents? Anyone who does this to a child, a baby, should be fired and banned from ever working in the education system.
The principal also said that if the gun was loaded (caps) he would have had to call the cops.
Too bad the USA doesn’t have laws and punishments like Singapore.
This jackass of a politically correct asshat principal would be beaten across the butt with a brine soaked rattan cane at least 25 times!
Maryland —> State with 99% liberal teachers and administrators.
My sister is one and she, like her colleagues, are nitwits to the max.
This is why my grandchildren attend private school.
The kids try to bring in contraband (toys, stickers to decorate a desk - 4 year old granddaughter, etc.)
I watch them so they are removed from the backpacks whenever I suspect there’s something in the bag.
Hope the parents of the kiddo above sue these fools.
Absolutely! If this happened to my child....
“Two hours of interrogation of a five year old boy? “
Exactly. WTF did they expect the kid to tell them?
I swear, back in the day...
The point is to psychologically condition children into believing guns are evil. The schools want to create gun phobia that will make the next few generations panic at the very image of a gun. People who don’t want their children intentionally conditioned to have irrational, deep-seated phobias should refuse to put their kids into public education. Kids are getting engineered, not educated.
Family’s lawyer? In court?
How about if the father pays a little visit to the principal? Behind the gym.
What happened to the anti-bullying movement in schools?
Indeed, these are ‘institutions’.
They’re busy inviting homosexual butt buggerers into classrooms of innocent children to expound on the glories of their lovemaking.
They’re busy indoctrinating these same children in how to screw their fellow students, but first put a condom on a banana.
Just too damned insane!
Poland recently solved their education problem. They turned all schools over to the Roman Catholic Church.
"Good work, kid! You're just in time for the sex ed class!"
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