Semi-Automatic Pastry Warrants Two-Day Suspension for 7 Year Old

Townhall.com ^ | March 10, 2013 | Daniel J. Michell

[Kaslin]

I weep for my country. We are becoming pathetic fools and total wimps.

Consider these jaw-dropping examples of behavior by adults who work in government schools. I think they must be competing for the Stupid Official of the Year Award.

The contestants include:

• The bureaucrats who suspended a 7-year boy for pretending to throw a non-existent grenade on the playground.
• The bureaucrats who suspended a 6-year old boy in Maryland for making a gun shape with his finger.
• The bureaucrats who busted a 5-year old girl in Pennsylvania for having a pink plastic gun that shoots bubbles.
• The teacher in Rhode Island who caught an 8-year old boy with some plastic toy army men.
• The bureaucrats who evacuated a school because an 11-year old boy made a motion detector for his science experiment.
• The bureaucrats in Florida who kicked an 8-year old boy out of school for a year because he had a plastic gun in his backpack.
• A dual award in Virginia, with half the prize for the bureaucrats who suspended a 10-year old boy for a toy gun and half the prize for the cops who then arrested the kid.

Here’s another example that belies belief. It starts innocently enough, as reported by a Baltimore news outlet.

Children at Park Elementary School went home with a letter today explaining there was a disruption in school.

A “disruption”? What, pray tell, happened. A fire? A theft? A gang fight?

Well, brace yourself lest you faint in fright at what you’re about to read.

 

At Park Elementary school, Josh was enjoying his breakfast pastry when he decided to try and shape it into a mountain. Josh said, “It was already a rectangle and I just kept on biting it and biting it and tore off the top and it kinda looked like a gun but it wasn’t.” Josh takes full responsibly for trying to shape his breakfast pastry, but admits it was in innocent fun. He told FOX45, “All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn’t look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun kinda.” When his teacher saw the strawberry tart he knew he was in trouble, he recalls, “She was pretty mad…and I think I was in big trouble.”

Oh, Heavens. Get the smelling salts!

What was the punishment for this thug?

Josh’s dad received a phone call from the school saying that Josh has been suspended for two days because he took his breakfast pastry and fashioned it into a gun. Josh’s dad was astounded to learn the school chose such a harsh punishment, even after no one was hurt.

But here’s the real kicker. The supposed adults who run the school (and are in charge of educating children) decided that an artfully chewed pastry was “an inappropriate gesture.”

Late Friday afternoon a letter went home with students explaining the incident saying, “A student used food to make an inappropriate gesture.” But Josh’s dad is not happy saying, “I would almost call it insanity. I mean with all the potential issues that could be dealt with at school, real threats, bullies, whatever the real issue is, it’s a pastry.., Ya know?”

The dad had the right reaction.

And the real moral of the story is that we need to break up the government-run education monopoly and allow school choice.

P.S. Mindless political correctness is not limited to the United States. There are also unbelievable examples from the United Kingdom.

[wintertime]

Conservatives do nothing about that.
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The only possible solution is to collapse the system. Why?

Fact: Government K-12 schooling is the very definition of a middle class entitlement that is a socialist, compulsory-funded, single-payer, compulsory-use, GODLESS, religiously non-neutral, and price-fixed monopoly cartel.

Question: When in the history of mankind has it been possible to reform a socialist, compulsory-funded, single-payer, compulsory-use, GODLESS, religiously non-neutral, and price-fixed monopoly cartel?

Answer: Never!

There are counties and states where, if conservatives and Christians removed their children, the entire corrupt and EVIL system of government socialist-entitlement schooling would immediately COLLAPSE!

But....I guess free babysitting, even if it comes with non-stop Marxist indoctrination, is powerfully addictive.

[wintertime]

Conservatives do nothing about that.
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Well....I beginning to feel a tiny bit more hopeful.

Last week I heard Glenn Beck urge his listeners, for about 15 solid minutes, to REMOVE their kids from the government schools.

I don’t get to hear Rush often, but I am surprised that he, too, is focusing on the danger of government socialist-entitlement schooling to our nation’s freedom.

[wintertime]

The aggressive institutionalisation of children by way of “education” is a crime against humanity, if ever there was.
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It is definitely a crime against the child.

Over 150,000 years of our human ancestors would be appalled at how we treat children. It is abusive. We treat them like prisoners and the only crime that they have committed is to be born! Then, if a child **rationally** rebels against being treated like a prisoner, he is condemned to hart-time prison, euphemistically called “reform” school. “REFORM SCHOOL”? Could Orwell invent a better double speak word? I doubt it!

[41Thunder]

When did we loose control of our educational system? What gives the Government the right to indoctrinate our children?

[wintertime]

When did we loose control of our educational system?
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In the mid-1800s when government took control of K-12 schooling.

Government schooling has **always** been a middle-class socialist-entitlement that is a single payer, compulsory-use, compuslory-funded, and price-fixed monopoly cartel.

Question: In the history of humankind has it ever been possible to reform a middle-class socialist-entitlement that is a single payer, compulsory-use, compuslory-funded, and price-fixed monopoly cartel?

Answer: NEVER

The only solution is to collapse the system. In many counties and even whole states the entire EVIL system of socialist-entitlement schooling would COLLAPSE if conservatives and Christians removed their children.

But....I suppose free babysitting is powerfully addictive.

By the way, I consider K-12 socialist-entitlement schooling to be soooooo EVIL for the child and such a threat to our nation's freedom that I will NOT NOT NOT have a government school worker for a friend! I won't have an abortion worker for a friend, either.

[Kaslin]

You must be talking about this one, which I found by doing a search

Deaf Child’s Sign For His Name Violates Gun Policy, Says School District

He probably hasn't heard about as it was not reported in the national news. I have not heard about it either

[stevem]

But Josh’s dad is not happy saying, “I would almost call it insanity.

Almost? Almost!!! What does the granite pate need to do before before she makes it all the way to insane???

[tuffydoodle]

Did Michelle ever come down on the parents for feeding their kid a sugar-laden poptart in the first place? Oh, the humanity!