Boy Suspended for Pointing Finger Like Gun

Newser ^ | 3/4/14 | Kate Seamons

[Impala64ssa]

America's kids have been suspended for pretending that pencils were guns, but an Ohio school may have topped that. A 10-year-old student at a Columbus elementary school was handed a three-day suspension for making a finger gun and pretending to shoot a classmate. The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch. Devonshire Alternative Elementary School's principal says students have been frequently told not to play pretend gun games, with a district rep saying kids were warned consequences would follow.

Those consequences hit hard last week for fifth-grader Nathan Entingh, who says he was "just playing around"; the rep said Nathan pretended to shoot another student "kind of execution style" in the head. And the "victim" didn't even see the mock execution, which was instead spotted by a teacher. Nathan's dad seems dumbfounded: "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger." (Almost exactly a year ago, a Georgia teacher was suspended over a finger gun of his own.)

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Maybe the implication is that we’re free to enjoy?

[Silentgypsy]

But it’s so easy!

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Inever have sage advice....

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Yeah, and???

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Double Vision?

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Probably because you aren’t sage...

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Shoulda gone to Scoutmaster. How do I do these things?

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"How do I do these things?"

Practice?

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Get your kids these for Easter...

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A bargain at $49...

But it does seem like a fix for a nonexistent jellybean dispensing problem that everyone I know solves by putting them in an open-mouthed jar and the kids self-dispense using their self-included manual appendages... ;-)

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But it poops jellybeans! Wind it up and watch it go. Perfect for the child in all of us.

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That would give me nightmares.

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We need a ban on finger-like guns.

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Perfect for the child in all of us.

While that may be true, the child in me being somewhat practical has determined that by the time I wind this thing up and let it go to get jelly beans, I would have already scarfed three handfuls of jelly beans from that open mouth jar... (and saved $50 ;-)