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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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To: Mastador1

Exactly my thoughts on the neutering of boys.

Wait until a gay couple’s son does the same thing, haa!


21 posted on 01/02/2013 5:49:49 PM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No matter how stupid, no matter how absurd the incident, some most parents will continue to send their children to public schools.

That includes conservative parents.

Not pointing any fingers....

22 posted on 01/02/2013 5:51:06 PM PST by HomeAtLast
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To: Mastador1
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.

I was the Indian, hiding in the weeds quietly talking into my fist and calling in and adjusting an imaginary artillery fire mission on you cowboys.

23 posted on 01/02/2013 5:54:17 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You make me smile more than anybody since Lucy. (Personal acquaintances excepted.)


24 posted on 01/02/2013 5:56:11 PM PST by HomeAtLast
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To: Riley
quietly talking into my fist and calling in and adjusting an imaginary artillery fire mission

Wait, what?

You guys had arty?

/johnny

25 posted on 01/02/2013 6:01:23 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Shutting down these government schools would do society a much greater favor.

Yep. While saving us trillions of dollars.

26 posted on 01/02/2013 6:01:46 PM PST by EternalVigilance (House Republican leaders only use the purse strings to hold up their pantywaists.)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl
Wait until a gay couple’s son does the same thing, haa!

No such thing.

27 posted on 01/02/2013 6:04:27 PM PST by EternalVigilance (House Republican leaders only use the purse strings to hold up their pantywaists.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
He should have preceded it with "Kung."

-PJ

28 posted on 01/02/2013 6:06:38 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I wish it named the elementary school. Does it surprise you in the least?


29 posted on 01/02/2013 6:10:13 PM PST by momtothree
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To: dsrtsage

I like the way you think :-)


30 posted on 01/02/2013 6:10:52 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: apillar

“Their permanent records must be a lot more comprehensive than mine”.

Oh, they are. There are two school records, by the way. The main one and the “secret” one. Seriously. One is for the viewing if requested by parents and there is always a second one that includes lists of infractions etc... My one girlfriend requested both when her daughter got into trouble. They were ticked that she knew about the other one (she has a friend in the school system).

On another note, there is now a Montgomery County “grading system” for behaviors. When a child misbehaves, it is referred to as “Anarchy” and they are given a punishment/calmed down to level D (Demure). How would I know this? Well, lil’ Miss 6 year old got into trouble for pushing a girl when the girl called her “stupid, dumb” and refused to let her into the computer lab. The girl was not injured, didn’t fall.. the “bad” behavior = the pushing. I get a call from her teacher that said she was at the “Anarchy level” but is now “Demure”. Anarchy? I asked, “Is she throwing molotov cocktails? Is she overturning cars in the lot? Is the school currently on fire”. The teacher said, “I don’t make up the grading system... I know it is out there”. Crazy, ain’t it?!


31 posted on 01/02/2013 6:19:13 PM PST by momtothree
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

These kids better watch out. Next thing we know, their hands will be tattooed with serial numbers. Or trigger locks will be mandatory. If muzzies run the schools, there will be confiscation.


32 posted on 01/02/2013 6:23:08 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Where is the mens rea, the guilty mind? It is well past time for some legal eagle to put an end to this abuse of children by idiots in a position of authority.
33 posted on 01/02/2013 6:35:45 PM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Liberals go crazy when anyone THINKS of a gun. They don’t care about who gets killed or not. They are passionate about controlling peoples’ thoughts! Thinking about a gun is the worse evil in the world!


34 posted on 01/02/2013 6:40:09 PM PST by I want the USA back
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To: momtothree
“Is she throwing molotov cocktails? Is she overturning cars in the lot? Is the school currently on fire”.

See, there's a bunch of questions my parents wouldn't have wanted to ask for fear of the answers.

I went by the rule "accuse me, and I'll do it". May as well be hanged for a goat as a sheep.

I'm sure that genetic trait still exists in the wild.

/johnny

35 posted on 01/02/2013 6:49:15 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“... there’s a bunch of questions my parents wouldn’t have wanted to as for fear of the answers”.

LOL!! She is actually a very well behaved girl and I am sorry to say we didn’t really lower the boom on this one. Not that we let our kids run wild but after the whole “anarchy” thing... I was so ticked at the stupidity of the school system that the pushing incident got only a “next time.. walk around the little brat”. (fortunately, she is the type of kid that gets upset if Mommy or Daddy is disappointed in her behavior).


36 posted on 01/02/2013 6:56:58 PM PST by momtothree
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m shocked it took this long for the ridiculous over reactions to begin.

More to follow, I’m sure.


37 posted on 01/02/2013 7:17:04 PM PST by Red6
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
My wife's a teacher-

Here in Plano TX schools there was a fight (two girls) a few days back in a school, not a really big deal actually. But the kids were handcuffed and taken off.

Yeah, the stupid meter will now peg out.

38 posted on 01/02/2013 7:25:38 PM PST by Red6
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To: Political Junkie Too
He should have preceded it with "Kung."

Then he'd be suspended for racism.

39 posted on 01/02/2013 8:42:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Teachers sure are dumb. Maybe that’s why the kids are too.


40 posted on 01/02/2013 8:43:14 PM PST by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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