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7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets "dispended" for real (Article and Video)
Fox 31 ^ | February 4, 2013 | David Mitchell and Julie Hayden

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: arth; boydispended; childdispended; childsuspended; dispended; guncontrol; gunhysteria; schoolgunhysteria; secondamendment; studentsuspended; zerotolerance
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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.

41 posted on 02/05/2013 6:14:32 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: beaversmom

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.


42 posted on 02/05/2013 6:20:51 AM PST by ImNotLying (The MSM bears a close resemblance to the world's oldest profession!)
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To: servo1969

I would recommend that everyone watch the documentary film called “The War on Kids.” It is eye opening and left me speechless.


43 posted on 02/05/2013 7:51:51 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: dr_lew
These people that come up with this stuff are completely ridiculous and they should be made to feel like what utter fools they are.

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.

44 posted on 02/05/2013 7:54:52 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto
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To: beaversmom
Should have told the teachers he was bombing the World Trade Center for Allah.

They wouldn't have dared done a thing.

45 posted on 02/05/2013 8:19:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: beaversmom

Zero tolerance, “real or imaginary”.


46 posted on 02/05/2013 9:00:14 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: CSM

Good thing talking about sex and sex techniques won’t make the kids want that...


47 posted on 02/05/2013 9:17:23 AM PST by LastNorwegian
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To: beaversmom

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.


48 posted on 02/05/2013 1:19:42 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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