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8-Year-Old Florida Boy Suspended for Making Gun Shape With Fingers: ‘It Was a Game’
http://www.theblaze.com ^ | october 1, 2013 | Liz Klimas

Posted on 10/01/2013 1:32:36 PM PDT by lowbridge

A pretend game of cops and robbers landed a Florida elementary school boy with a very real suspension after he made a pretend gun with his thumb and index finger.

The mother of 8-year-old Jordan Bennett said her son was only playing with his friend at Harmony Community School in St. Cloud. She fears his one-day suspension, which was handed down Friday, wrongly labels Jordan as a violent person.

“There was nothing in his hand. He used his thumb and index finger,” Bonnie Bennett told WKMG-TV. “It was a game. He made no threatening advances or threats to harm anyone. No words were said.”

“They took a child that has never been in trouble before and went to the extreme,” the mother continued. “A child that has no history of violence is now classified as a violent offender.”

The school, on the other hand, said the game crossed the line established by the district’s code of conduct. A school representative told WKMG while they can’t give specifics into the incident, it was reviewed and found in violation of school policy. The school did not specify the specific code violation that was grounds for the suspension.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; education; florida; guncontrol; liberalfascism; liberalidiots; liberalism; liberals; pc; progressives; publiceducation; publicschools; rapeofliberty; secondamendment; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 10/01/2013 1:32:36 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
The goal is to raise a generation of eunuchs who will run in terror at the very mention of the word "GUN!"

The shame is, it's working.


2 posted on 10/01/2013 1:34:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: lowbridge

Gotta learn to do this while wiping the nose.


3 posted on 10/01/2013 1:34:24 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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4 posted on 10/01/2013 1:34:40 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: lowbridge

It’s about terrifying the kid, creating a new sheep, and criminalizing the thought of a gun.

They know what they’re doing, these fascists.


5 posted on 10/01/2013 1:34:46 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: lowbridge

Glad I’m not that young feller. We actually yelled “Bang! Bang!” out loud. I’d be in the SuperMax by now.


6 posted on 10/01/2013 1:34:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PieterCasparzen

What about saying the word “gun” or “bang” out loud?

What about writing the word “gun” on a piece of paper?


7 posted on 10/01/2013 1:35:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: NFHale; lowbridge

He Made a pretend gun with his fingers in school.


8 posted on 10/01/2013 1:36:05 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: lowbridge

I thought this was satire. What has happened to this country?!


9 posted on 10/01/2013 1:36:08 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (Mahound delenda est)
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To: lowbridge

In Morgan Hill, California (south of SanFran) two boys were suspended for wearing American Flag t-shirts on cinqo de mayo.

Principal asked them to take off the shirts and when they did not they were sent home and then suspended.


10 posted on 10/01/2013 1:37:00 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: lowbridge

How many of you reading this nonsense would have been allowed to remain in school beyond 5 weeks into the first grade.
School would have been 100% girls only. The USA would have lost WWII because all the young men would have been rejected by the military due to complete illiteracy.
Also millions of we nasty boys carried pocket knives, used to mutilate innocent tree limbs that fell to ground.
Insanity rules.


11 posted on 10/01/2013 1:38:19 PM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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To: Travis McGee

Only little white schoolkids. Black thugs playing “Knockout King” game get a pass. It’s only a game, unlike a little white kid making the shape of a gun with his fingers.


12 posted on 10/01/2013 1:38:53 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Billthedrill

We actually played “War” with realistically looking and sounding plastic toy weapons.

It sounded like Bastogne in my neighborhood some afternoons, complete with Oscar worthy dying scenes.


13 posted on 10/01/2013 1:39:25 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: lowbridge

More PC horse sh*t.

This country is so scr*wed.


14 posted on 10/01/2013 1:39:29 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: lowbridge

... watch out if you’re using sign-language and finger-spelling any word with the letter ‘L’ in it.


15 posted on 10/01/2013 1:40:23 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: sickoflibs
He Made a pretend gun with his fingers in school.

Yes, it starts with pretend guns. Then it is pretend hand grenades, pretend AK-45s, pretend chemical weapons, and pretend nuclear bombs.
Oh the Huge Manatee!!
Good thing the ever vigilant Government School minders are paying attention to the important stuff... (because they sure are not providing a worthwhile education).

16 posted on 10/01/2013 1:40:50 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: mrsmel

Did his assault hand have high capacity fingers?


17 posted on 10/01/2013 1:41:01 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Travis McGee
The goal is to raise a generation of eunuchs who will run in terror at the very mention of the word "GUN!" The shame is, it's working.

Yeah, for all the dalliances with rebellion from the establishment school age kids, including college aged "children," are very pliable and complaint with authority when it comes right down to it. The left knows this too, and that's why infiltrating that institution was so prized-- and now paying off.

You know how cool it is to walk around campus with a Che T-shit on, don't you? Spot the irony.

18 posted on 10/01/2013 1:43:18 PM PDT by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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To: exit82

Did you have the realistic Mattel M-16? That was a lot of fun! And a cap-firing tommy gun?


19 posted on 10/01/2013 1:44:01 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: I want the USA back
It’s about terrifying the kid, creating a new sheep, and criminalizing the thought of a gun.

They know what they’re doing, these fascists.

We ought to see that it creates the opposite reaction--outrage, indignation and righteous anger. Then, they just might call off this sort of stuff. To use a 1942 expression, we need to take these fascists and blister their Axis.

20 posted on 10/01/2013 1:45:07 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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