I live in Sumter and was speechless this morning when I saw the story, front page in the local paper. What's happened to common sense?
In the comments, several people blame the parents for not checking her book bag before leaving for school. Say what? Are parents actually checking their kindergartners' bags every day, looking for "forbidden" items?
There is only one thing I would say to her parents: there are several private schools in Sumter, with a whole range of tuitions, and I'll bet that every one does a better job than the government school. So, take this as a warning and move your daughter to a private school!
Hey - I used to live in Sumter. Stationed at Shaw from 83-88.
It’s all about creating a culture that is not familiar with firearms, so they fear them, so they readily give them up.
It’s all about creating a culture that is not familiar with firearms, so they fear them, so they readily give them up.
My response, if I could, would be to immediately enroll my daughter into a private school or teach her at home and I’d take her to the range on weekends so she doesn’t fear firearms.
It’s about traumatizing children. Pavlov. If they could use a cattle prod they would.
Government actively encourages practices that are immoral and harmful to children but seeks to criminalize normal human behavior, even among the smallest children. Just look at the contrast shown in the video between this child (and her dad) and the public school official with the rule book in hand. Which one needs to be locked up for a long, long time?
Could be the best thing that could happen to a six year old. Now home school him and teach him how to be a patriotic American man ... because that’s never going to happen in a public school.
“Academics” are very often the most narrow-minded, reactionary and petty people you will meet.
With what is going on with that school board in Sumter those parents need to enroll her in one of those private schools!
We have just about perfected stupidity!
This is child abuse, and these #ing predators can go to Hell.
Here’s what every parent should do... send their crumb crunchers to school with a toy gun. Let the school idiots expel all of them. It’d be the best thing that could happen for the kids’ education.
Wow, there are states that don’t ALLOW parents to home school?
We have become a nation of “small kitty cats.”
Most true “Airsoft” guns are not plastic toys. They are toys, but they are precision toys with metal and plastic parts that shoot real projectiles, albeit not that will likely injure you (well, unless you shoot someone from 10 feet away, then they hurt like the dickens).
I have a couple of “fake” airsoft guns, that shoot the same plastic bbs, but by direct spring power, not compressed air, and they would be considered “toys”, but they still hurt if you shoot someone from a few feet away.
My objection to this action is that we are required to pay taxes to support school, and are required to send their kids, and then the kids are required to follow restrictive rules, and can be expelled, but you don’t get your money back.
If school was optional, and you paid if you sent your kid, then I’d be fine with them setting any rules they want.
This is the problem with government, they almost have to do a one-size-fits-all, and it’s a crappy way to live your life.
Public school teachers and administrators have become some of the most fantastically evil and rabid totalitarians in the world. They are shameless and conscienceless and cruel as hell. The LAST people they should EVER have ANY power over are children.
Gun Control Fascism on Steroids.
The family sjould just permanently homeschool their child. A lot of private schools are just as bad as public schools now
Common sense went out the door when the touchy, feely liberals took over the zoo.....
more proof government/socialism can never work.
they want to ban our guns and our individual rights and freedom. how about banning their stupid government and the news media then no more problems
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