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This is shabby journalism. The article doesn't mention whether the kid's hand was loaded. |
Posted on 03/05/2010 6:52:07 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
YAKIMA, Wash.- Manuel Alvarez eats breakfast and gets ready for school. He's eager but nervous. He was expelled Monday from Barge Lincoln Elementary for making a gun with his hands. His mom says it's a hand gesture that could have easily been corrected.
"He didn't know did they talk to him about it what actions were taken to tell him this isn't allowed," Lorena Hurtado, Manuel's mother.
Manuel has a clean record never in trouble before his mother says a warning would have worked or even a parent-teacher meeting. Instead, His mom says, Manuel's afraid.
"I got a call from the School saying he's not raising his hand or speaking up. He's scared after we talked about not doing any gestures, he probably doesn't want to to do it because that could be a gesture. It might get him pulled out for two days," said Hurtado.
Manuel's mom doesn't see anything wrong with her son putting his hands like this and shooting down at the ground. She doesn't think it poses an immediate threat to the school or Manuel's classmates. We took the issue to School District employees and asked them about their policy.
"When students are at school they should be concerned about learning….safety shouldn't be a concern at school, we have a zero tolerance policy," said Dr. John Irion, from the Yakima School District.
Hurtado understands the policy, but in this case doesn't think the punishment fits the crime, especially when the student in question is in kindergarten.
"A five-year-old shouldn't be held to the same policy as a 12th grader...he is in kindergarten," said Hurtado.
Lorena Hurtado is appealing the expulsion and wants to try to clear her son's record. She says she doesn't want her five-year-old to be labeled as a troublemaker.
Lunes?
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This is shabby journalism. The article doesn't mention whether the kid's hand was loaded. |
Sounds like what happened to my kid....we pulled them out and are home schooling now.
I can’t judge this without the answer to a couple of questions.
Was the boy’s finger loaded? Was it registered?
Loons? Lunes?
Is it Lune as in Lunatic, or Loon as in the bird???
Either way, its insane.
Seems to me the leftist controlled public school system has an agenda of
if we can’t indoctrinate, separate.
Ah, you beat me by 2 minutes.
Luna. The Moon. Also root for Lunatic.
Lune... Dunno. Let's make something up. See if it sticks.
While I think this is extreme, the Yakima Valley is being taken over by gang activity.
Or charge him with owning an unregistered suppressor.
He’s a kindergardner.
I guess this is what the Liberal Statists have in mind when they call for bans on “HAND guns”?
Zero tolerance for what?
"Anything I don't like."
“I got a call from the School saying he’s not raising his hand or speaking up. He’s scared after we talked about not doing any gestures, he probably doesn’t want to to do it because that could be a gesture. It might get him pulled out for two days,” said Hurtado.”
His mother shouldn’t pressure him. Let him just sit there and keep quiet. Anyway, it’s obviously safer that way. Leave it totally up to him to decide when he wants to participate.
The school created a problem. Let them live with it.
Best thing we've ever done.
The school had best never put on a play where violence of any degree whatsoever is acted out.
If "zero tolerance" means that even pretending to do something wrong gets you expelled, then it should clearly extend to discussion of wrong things too.
In fact, anyone who says the words "gun", "pistol", "rifle", "bomb" or "bang" on school property should go to jail.
After all, it's for the children.
And in the winter.....we had snowball wars...we spent day building the arsenal. Parents loved it...We were busy, busy, busy....and we shoveled the driveway, too. Anyone seen a kid shovel lately??
That's a little too broad to be accurate. Have you ever heard of the one armed bandit? Clearly he didn't have opposable thumbs. But he did have an opposable thumb. So to be accurate you must restate it as such, "From Jane Fonda to Jack the Ripper, every successful criminal in history has had an opposable thumb."
re: “Blame the lawyers, though. If this kid actually harmed someone later and the school admin did nothing about his “propensity towards violence”, they’d be sued.”
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There is some truth to what you said. However, I also think this is one of those issues of the differences between boys/girls or men/women. On the playground, most of the boys like to rough house - they play act with Star Wars, Ninji’s, or soldiers, cops n robbers, etc. That’s what boys do - it’s part of their nature. As long as they are not actually hurting anyone or getting too physical, I let them play.
But, when I’ve been on the playground with other women on playground duty, they will stop the boys from playing in this manner. They think it is violent behavior that must be checked or the kid will turn into a serial killer or gang banger.
Most principals use common sense about the so-called “zero tolerance” thing, but some go off the deep end.
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