Gosh, I can't believe I just defended a public school administration.
What poor behavior? The kid is six.
WHY is a red squirt gun considered by the school as a Class whaterverthehell "weapon".Too many coulda mightas and maybes to come up with that defense.
One thing he will most likely take out of it is that school adults are not to be trusted and their punishments do not reflect the "crime" and that they are really dumb. Not now...but by high school certainly.
And the schools will have labeled him as a "troublemaker".
One big happy circle.
Nothing in the article sttates that. Although I don't know about the school crime in the area or the discipline problems the school encounters. On the surface is sounds dumb, but there may be more than meets the eys as you suggested.
Nope, they did it because some dolt codified as 'zero tolerance' policy under which squirt guns were 'simulated weapons' for which the sentence meeted out was a 10 day suspension.
Like the poster just after you said, 'zero tolerance = zero intelligence'.
Our schools have the same policies. And for the most part, our children have never really had toy guns to play with. My son has a pellet gun, though. I'm safe for the time being, it's too big to fit in the backpack if he tried. :)
I got "pops" and "swats" all thru school. I was a "hard learner". After 12 years of nuns and Jesuits, Navy Boot Camp was a breeze.
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls....what's the problem other than a public school system expecting PC behavior from a child plus political knowledge....?
That's it continue to appologize to the idiotic PC left. A class IV offense? Wrong to bring the piece of plastic to school? Calling the water pistol a "weapon"? Defend them if you want but I will never accept such behavior from school officials.
You are made too many assumptions and gave the public school the benefit of the doubt. We really don't know that the mother came in at acted like a raging fool. I am certain this would have been the school's reaction no matter how the mother behaved. School administrators almost universally act like mind-numbed robots when it comes to these zero tolerance rules.