One of our local homeschool groups had a class on the history of weapons.
So, those days aren’t long gone, not even in the schools. I’m a homeschool parent, but my kids were involved in many activities with schoolkids. And most of those schoolkids play violent videogames at home. So, outside of school, many of those young kids pretend to shoot each other - all the time. It’s the only way they seem to play, in fact.
In the old days, I don’t remember pointless violence in boys’ play. Nowadays, though, it’s different - for example, one 7yo boy we knew got in trouble for pretending to slit another boy’s throat - like something he might’ve done in an M-rated videogame. To be honest, that kind of play concerns me, too.
But, to suspend a kid for drawing a gun, for example, is absolutely ridiculous.
Surrounded by sounds of fireworks here... Happy 4th to all!
Here, teachers wet themselves at the mention of guns.
Happy Independence Day!