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6-Year-Old Suspended For Saying, “Pow”
Godfather Politics ^ | January 2, 2013 | Philip Hodges

Posted on 01/02/2013 4:49:27 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Michael Moore recently said that the only reason white people are buying a bunch of guns in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting is that they’re fearful. Afraid of black people specifically. He said, “Calm down, white people, and put away your guns.” So if we’re all buying guns and ammo out of fear of the black man, what emotion would cause this idiocy: a 6-year-old boy was suspended from school for making his hand in the shape of a gun and pretend shooting it, saying, “Pow,” as it was pointed at a fellow student. Were school officials actually scared that a bullet was going to come out of the child’s index finger and kill his classmate? So, it’s not fear that’s driving this; it’s pure stupidity.

Renee Garraway, the Assistant Principal in this Montgomery County, Maryland school, sent a letter home with the 6-year-old. Her letter, addressing the child’s parents, stated in part that “your son … was involved in a serious incident. [He] threatened to shoot a student. He was spoken to earlier today about a similar incident.” He threatened to shoot a student? Are they kidding? He was probably playing a version of Cops and Robbers. He’s a little boy. At one time, such behavior was considered normal for little boys. Nowadays with the abject paranoia of the left, this child’s configuring his fingers in the shape of a gun is worthy of suspension.

And because of the school’s “no tolerance” policy and ridiculous overreaction, the parents have had to retain an attorney, Robin Ficker. Ficker pointed out that “five years from now when someone at Montgomery County looks at [the child's] permanent record, they’re going to see that he threatened to shoot another student.”

This is similar to another recent incident where a 3-year-old deaf student was told he had to change his sign language name because the hand gestures for the name “Hunter” resembled guns, much like the 6-year-old’s “gun” above being used to shoot a fellow student.

Government schools are proving themselves to be dangerous, mentally, emotionally and physically. They’re also run by imbeciles who think they’re doing society a favor by removing the kids with “behavior problems” such as the child who was playing Cops and Robbers. Shutting down these government schools would do society a much greater favor.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; arth; banglist; bullystate; children; copsandrobbers; democrats; frhl; guncontrol; guns; liberalidiots; liberals; looneyleft; looneylooneylooney; montgomerycounty; pc; publicschools; reneegarraway; rkba; robinficker; stupidity; suspension; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 01/02/2013 4:49:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Holy paranoid Batman......


2 posted on 01/02/2013 4:52:07 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

3 posted on 01/02/2013 4:52:59 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...
Yep, it's that bad.

Pull your kids out.

Nanny State PING!

4 posted on 01/02/2013 4:55:11 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year!)
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Dr. Suzanna Hupp Testimony (Better Quality) to Congress on the Second Amendment

The last few seconds are priceless!

5 posted on 01/02/2013 4:56:16 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
a 3-year-old deaf student was told he had to change his sign language name

I hope he changed his name from Hunter to (redacted, but involving a different finger).

/johnny

6 posted on 01/02/2013 4:56:34 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Lawyer Robin Ficker...I think that is the NBA fan who has heckled opposing teams at Bullets/Wizards' games.


7 posted on 01/02/2013 4:58:20 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: Doogle

8 posted on 01/02/2013 4:59:52 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Government schools are proving themselves to be dangerous, mentally, emotionally and physically. They’re also run by imbeciles who think they’re doing society a favor by removing the kids with “behavior problems” such as the child who was playing Cops and Robbers. Shutting down these government schools would do society a much greater favor."

Amen to that! I couldn't agree more.

Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.


9 posted on 01/02/2013 5:06:39 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If he said he was just singing the Black-Eyed Peas’s “Boom Boom Pow” would that get him off the hook or would he get two more suspensions?


10 posted on 01/02/2013 5:06:49 PM PST by x
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Ficker pointed out that “five years from now when someone at Montgomery County looks at [the child's] permanent record, they’re going to see that he threatened to shoot another student.”

Their permanent records must be a lot more comprehensive than mine, I got a copy of mine a few years ago and all it contained was my grades, attendance and ACT/SAT scores (And believe me I got in trouble more than a couple times...)

11 posted on 01/02/2013 5:07:16 PM PST by apillar
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"They’re also run by imbeciles who think they’re doing society a favor...

No.....calling these droolers "imbeciles" gives imbeciles a bad name.

12 posted on 01/02/2013 5:14:06 PM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; a fool in paradise

13 posted on 01/02/2013 5:19:53 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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Renee Garraway, the Assistant Principal in this Montgomery County, Maryland school, sent a letter home with the 6-year-old. Her letter, addressing the child’s parents, stated in part that “your son … was involved in a serious incident. [He] threatened to shoot a student.

The parent need to sue the school system and this principal immediately for defamation of character, a violation of the child's 1st amendment rights, false accusation, and causing mental anguish. I'd open the suit at $20 million. The only way to stop these fascists is to hit them financially. They seem to be slow learners, so it will likely take quite a few such suites.

14 posted on 01/02/2013 5:21:08 PM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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“They’re also run by imbeciles who think they’re doing society a favor...

No.....calling these droolers “imbeciles” gives imbeciles a bad name’”

These imbeciles that run the government schools, the same kind of imbeciles will now run our healthcare with Obamacare.

The government schools and Obamacare should be abolished. Get your kids out of government schools.


15 posted on 01/02/2013 5:23:44 PM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’ll be a wonder if we have any police officers or military in 10-15 years without cops and robber games and cowboy and indian games.


16 posted on 01/02/2013 5:27:18 PM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Public school is child abuse.


17 posted on 01/02/2013 5:32:24 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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We conservatives can have fun by dropping a box of cap guns with rolls of caps somewhere in the local elementary school playground late at night. While the entire police force is at the school the next day locking the place down because kids are playing with inanimate objects that can cause no harm to anybody, the roads will be free of cops for drag races.


18 posted on 01/02/2013 5:35:42 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Doogle

Oh My God! These people are insane! When I was a child we played Army and Cowboys and Indians in school and yelled pow, bang and boom and it was considered NORMAL behavior. What are we allowing these totalitarian mush brained pseudo intellectuals to turn our children into. We need less of these progressive so called teachers interacting with our children more old fashioned play. It seems to me that we had less problems before we allowed these people to neuter our young boys.


19 posted on 01/02/2013 5:41:00 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just because someone works at a school doesn’t mean that they are not idiots.......


20 posted on 01/02/2013 5:48:36 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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