Posted on 05/28/2013 6:33:01 AM PDT by libertarian27
A mother says she's upset over the punishment her 6-year-old kindergartener is facing after the Old Mill Pond Elementary School student boarded a school bus last week with a Lego plastic gun about the size of a quarter.
"I think they overreacted, totally," Mieke Crane told abc40.
The tiny toy gun is the type that snaps into the hands of a Lego figure, and another student saw it and yelled to the driver. Both Crane's son and the student who alerted the driver had to apologize, according to Crane, who says her son also must serve detention on Tuesday. Palmer school officials couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
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It’s all part of the liberals’ program of making kids either fear the possession or or hate guns. Nothing new here.
The Curse of Obamanation continues to Move Forward.
“...Mieke Crane is the mother of the six-year-old kindergarten student who brought the gun on the bus.
I think they over-reacted totally. I totally do, said Crane.”
It’s conditioning, Pavlov-style.
FREAK on the kid at the mere mention or sight of a toy gun, and he/she automatically relates the object with fear of punishment.
They know exactly what they’re doing to our kids.
I taught my kids at very young ages to shoot. They were immune to all this bullsh*t by the time they got into school.
The last days of kindergarten and he gets detention? Ha, as if kindergarten is required. Short of homeschooling, the kid’s parents should tell the school where they could put the big bad scary weapon and pull the kid out of school so he can have a longer summer vacation.
They most certainly can but refuse to step up. They can be the squeaky wheel at the PTO. They can go to the school board meetings to voice their opinions. They can run for school board. They can volunteer at school. They can get hired at the school. They can get to know the teachers and principal. They can send letters to the editor of the local newspaper. They can get other parents together to protest ridiculous rules. The school wouldn't exist without the parents' tax dollars so the parents have a huge say in how the school operates.
Where the hell is common sense??? Why didn’t the bus driver tell the kid to shut up, it’s a toy?? And more importantly, why did he have to report it to “the authorities”? How stupid are we to continue down this commie path? THAT should be who’s in detention, not the kid that brought the toy.
Over-sized for liberals.
Communist educators should be shoved against a bullet-pocked wall to stare at some real guns.
This is designed to scare children into reacting negatively to any gun. They will instantly associate it with fear of...something
Not of someone WITH a gun attacking them, but fear of OWNING a gun.
I have a nanny from Portugal where the socialist teaching about guns was nearly totally complete. She would not even LOOK at a gun - she would avert her eyes as if in fear of it infecting her or something. She was literally afraid to be in the same room with it, and very nearly the same building.
Only when I had it disassembled for cleaning did she seem to sense there was not monster inside it... or something. It took months to get her to try to shoot one, and now she loves it. She said she does not remember why she was so afraid of it. It is brainwashing.
Laziness is no excuse.
Do they take the cannons out of the school monopoly sets? Cause that’s about how big this dangerous assault rifle is. Way way way way way way way way too small to even be mistaken for an actual firearm.
I guess there are no super soakers allowed on the playground?
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