Posted on 09/24/2008 4:39:06 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
A Santa Fe elementary school student has been suspended for the rest of the week after bringing a toy gun to school. Sheriff’s deputies say the fourth grader’s mother purchased the plastic BB gun for her son because he wants to be a cop when he grows up. But she says that she had no idea her son put the gun in his backpack and took it to school.
Administrators at Agua Fria Elementary say even if it’s not a real gun, the policy for bringing it to school is very clear.
“What we made clear to the student that this is considered a weapon, so by bringing a weapon to school, it’s a violation of the code of conduct,” said Principal Suzanne Jacquez-Gorman.
Next week, the boy will have to meet with counselors and police to discuss gang violence even though he told the principal he is not in a gang.
A note was sent home to parents explaining what happened at the school.
Well, it does fire BBs so it has no place at school, but the administrators are over reacting big time. Take it from him for a week and that is the punishment.
Has to meet with cops about gangs? WTF?
Since he says he wants to be a police officer, that will probably be fun for him.
It is a bb gun so it’s not exactly an innocent toy.
Hit the post too soon - Our schools find shells in the boys’ restroom around huntin’ time and no one gets upset but this is the south.
It’s a toy pretending to be a gun in a place full of morons pretending to be teachers.
It’s just doing what they are doing.
mandatory timeouts during recess for a week in the principals office could have driven home the rule of “no toys in school” if this was a first offense
if the pick above is of the toy gun that is hardly a bb gun as they have stated...that looks to me like the toy guns they sell at the local flea market that barely shoot out those little rubber balls....at any rate the schools have gotten out of control with their policys especially for the lower grades....what happened to punishing the kids in school for breaking thr rules....God knows i had my fair share of paddlings and detentions etc....what we need is some educators with backbones and get back to the good old days of discipline....look at the older generations...it worked...
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