Posted on 03/15/2010 5:29:47 AM PDT by mattstat
The scene was tense Wednesday, 3 March, when Mason Jammer, a student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, Michigan held his kindergarten class hostage by fashioning his finger into the shape of a gun. Ionia is far distant suburb east of the thriving metropolis of Grand Rapids.
During the siege, panicked teachers gathered outside the classroom expressed concerns that the finger might go off. “This just wasn’t funny,” said the Jefferson principal. “[This] made other students uncomfortable.”
Jammer strutted around the room with his right forefinger held straight out. His right thumb was held erect, though it occasionally sagged when Jammer’s attention was diverted by Sally Kipper, 6, trying to climb into the fish tank.
The situation was diffused by the classroom teacher, who talked Jammer down from his frenzy. “I offered him chocolate milk,” said the 54 year-old homeroom teacher. “He dropped the gun, and immediately the door burst open. I think it was at that point that I fainted.”
Coming through the door was the principal and the janitor, who had armed himself with the broken handle of a shovel. He...
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When asked why they didn’t try to disarm Mason, one teacher said, “Pulling his finger was not an option”.
Hopefully, this is just good satire. With the bunch of nitwits in the educational system today it might not be....
I have a 6 year old godson named Mason. It could have been him except for the location.
It’s gotta be. Describing Ionia as a suburb of GR is a stretch. They are about 40 mi apart.
Sorry, but not funny.
One of the teachers should have formed their fingers into the shape of a phone and called 911!
Definitely funny, if you read the papers.
A kid was recently expelled for forming his fingers in the shape of a gun.
Who are these idiotic people, and who allowed them to teach anything?
ROFLOL!!!! I just can’t believe this, are their any adult in charge anymore? Or has every body gone stupid?
Kid should have been taken out by a butt Swat team.....
Ionia kindergartner suspended for making gun with hand
Zero tolerance = zero BRAINS.
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Actually suspending a boy of about the same age for making a gun shape with his hand wasn't funny. That has happened here in what was the United States of America.
Wait just a minute!!!!!
It had a nail in it.......
I suspect that the pricipal who actually suspended the boy was loaded.
That’s one bad mamma jamma.
Ok, funny in the manner of gallows humor. All too realistic and possible. Kind of a queasy funny, IMHO.
I think little Mason was just doing what he was told to. This whole thing sounds staged to me. Just using another kid for their agenda.
I think that was why it was written.
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