Posted on 02/05/2013 12:02:06 AM PST by beaversmom
LOVELAND, Colo. — A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.
The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.
“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it.
“It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says.
He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.
“I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go ‘pshhh.’”
The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”
But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary.
“Honestly I don’t think the rule is very realistic for kids this age,” says Alex’s mom Mandie Watkins.
Alex is like a lot of 2nd graders, perpetual motion. His mom says the little boy doesn’t understand why pretending to be a soldier was wrong. “I think that when a child is trying to save the world, I don’t think he should be punished for it.”
At least one other parent FOX31 Denver talked to agrees with her.
“That’s just a boy growing up,” says Elliott Orozco. “That’s what I did and I didn’t become a bad guy.”
Nevertheless, Alex will be playing at home rather than in the school yard because his mom says he’ll stay home until this can be worked out.
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Sounds like the demagogues who made up this stupid rule are more out of touch with reality than the boy who was playing make believe. I guess it's never too early to begin to emasculate the male.
Mom ought to keep him home for good and homeschool him and give him his childhood back.
Liberals are the epitome of hypocrisy! They promote, endorse, and idolize the Hollywood left’s violent and vulgar on-screen movies and music videos. They condone the gaming industry’s violent portrayal of cop killers. They want to take away second amendment rights but have entourages of heavily armed body guards. Now they want to stifle creativity and imagination in elementary school students; dictate how they think. Kinda reminds me of some twentieth century Europeon and Asian nations.
I would recommend that everyone watch the documentary film called “The War on Kids.” It is eye opening and left me speechless.
The people that came up with this are not foolish or ridiculous. They are deadly serious. These policies were scientifically crafted, designed and tested based on what went on in Soviet gulags and North Korean prison camps. This is pure brainwashing. They want to deliberately create automatons that can't resist because the very idea of resistance has been purged from their minds.
They wouldn't have dared done a thing.
Zero tolerance, “real or imaginary”.
Good thing talking about sex and sex techniques won’t make the kids want that...
Not far from Ft. Collins, and like Ft. Collins, according to some of its residents, very conservative. Yeah, right. I’ve worked in schools. Some of the teachers hated boys in general. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s been in a university education program during the past thirty years or so.
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