Posted on 02/05/2013 11:41:42 AM PST by tom h
KDVR NEWS – 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.
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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. ...
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These replies remind why I like FR - sanity lives!
I imagine the L on my keyboard means Ludicrous Liberal. Or Launcher. I choose Launcher. LLLLLLL That outa do it. I’d tell you what I launched, but I’d get expelled.
There should be some schoolboard and school administrator openings in Loveland, Colorado.
We had one fake-real one we played when we were kids, it was dad’s cigarette lighter.
We stopped using that when dad pulling clumps of the lawn and dirt out of it one day and went ballistic, so we just went to the next best thing, dirt clods.
God only knows how many times we came home with some injury or other from the neighborhood dirt clod wars, we weren’t gentle when we were throwing “nature’s grenades” either.
Listened to this on the Peter Boyles show this morning, the school apparently had an imaginary law that was broken and the kids was “dispended”
Child abuse.
I guess I’m fortunate that my second-grade teacher never spotted my imaginary tactical nuclear weapon. As the new kid, I was usually in enough trouble already.
“God only knows how many times we came home with some injury or other from the neighborhood dirt clod wars, we weren’t gentle when we were throwing “nature’s grenades” either.”
LOL! Oh yes, dirt clods made fantastic grenades!
"Now, little boys in grade school are suspended for playing cowboys and Indians, cops and crooks, and all the other familiar variations of “good guy vs. bad guy” that helped them learn, at an early age, what it was like to have decent men hunt you down, because you were a lawbreaker."
The kid’s mom should report every single teacher & administrator who brings a “deadly” motor vehicle onto the campus. After all, those kill tens of thousands every year while imaginary grenades kill zero.
Another case where people need to wait for the full story.
Turns out the mom is a serial publicity hound and liar.
Reminds me of the big stink on FR several years ago about a school in Palatine, IL. Kid gets suspended from school for “having NRA materials” in his locker.
Turns out that the mom made it all up and the materials in question was a hit list of students and teachers the kid said he wanted to kill.
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