Posted on 06/18/2010 4:02:32 PM PDT by mdittmar
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island boy whose school banned a hat he made because the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns was awarded a medal on Friday for his patriotic efforts.
Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio, the retired head of the Rhode Island National Guard, gave 8-year-old David Morales a medal called a challenge coin during an appearance on WPRO-AM's John DePetro show.
Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers.
"You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job," he said. "We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country."
Centracchio also gave David a certificate that allows him to call himself a brigadier general.
David was assigned to make a hat last week for a project at the Tiogue School in Coventry. He chose a patriotic theme and glued plastic Army figures to a camouflage baseball cap. But school officials said the hat ran afoul of their no-weapons policy because the Army men held tiny guns.
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To ban that child with that hat, that teacher would have to be mentally ill.
Seriously.
make him the parade marshal and keys of the city.
Even the ACLU couldn’t stomach this one.
Fantastic.
I remember those soldiers. My dad gave me his. My son broke them by accident. I can’t figure out how. I won’t think on it more. It makes me sad.
LOL.
LOL....that's the first thing I thought as well. This is wonderful on so many levels.
Zero tolerance sees a gun as a gun no matter what. Zero tolerance is the enemy, guns are not.
These cuckoo “less than zero tolerance” high muckety mucks aren’t willing to stop at a obviously toy gun. They aren’t willing to stop at a chicken finger. They aren’t willing to stop at a pointed hand finger. They aren’t even willing to stop at a gun figure which is molded as one piece of a toy soldier in the same color plastic!
They are trying to girlify all the boys while they’re still young, rather than to tell off a few misguided kids when their mischief goes beyond acceptable bounds.
Rightious!
Kid’s the youngest member of that militia now!
Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers.
“You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job,” he said. “We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country.”
The teachers at the school are probably furious and gnashing their teeth at being rebuked like this.
They told the kid he did wrong. Now the kid gets a coin and recognition defying them. And no doubt every kid in school is aware of it.
They must be seething “HOW DARE YOU.” While the National Guardsman and the kids’ parents are proud as punch.
There are over a thousand comments, one is by a person who’s ten year old daughter was rebuked for a public display of affection because another ten year old had her hand on her shirt sleeve.
I hate zero tolerance. It’s another word for idiocy.
He does look like a real hooligan though. He most likely has attended some of those racist red neck Tea Parties also.
His “choice” of words may have been intentional. ;-)
BB Guns vs. green army men.
“Oh the rifle,
Yes the rifle,
In our hands will prove no trifle!”
I remember singing something like that in music class in a Kentucky pubskewl when I was a kid, in the late sixties, as the teacher gal played it on the piano. That’d give these liberals a heart attack now. They ought to organize Kid Militias after school and rub it in even further.
the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns
The school is right they are lethal weapons!!!
Did you ever step on one of these in your bare feet? They are killers
Not the silly soft plastic stuff molded in China today.
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