Will The Stupidity Never End!

[TBB]

I don't want to live in the same world as these people!!!

 

 

 

In the latest incident of anti-gun hysteria to erupt in
a school setting, a kindergarten boy has been suspended from school for
10 days because he showed a friend his cowboy-style cap gun on the way
to school.

The incident happened on Wednesday morning at about 8:30 a.m. on a school bus in Calvert County, Maryland, reports The Washington Post.

The kindergartener had brought the toy gun
because his friend had brought a water gun the previous day. He later
told his mother than he “really, really” wanted his friend to see it.

The suspended boy had acquired the menacing, plastic, orange-tipped
weapon at Frontier Town, a western-themed campground with a water park,
mini golf and the like.

School officials at Dowell Elementary School
in the town of Lusby proceeded to question the five-year-old for over
two hours before finally calling his mother, whom The Post also does not
name.

The principal eventually called the boy’s mother at 10:50 a.m. By
that time, the five-year-old had wet his pants (which the mother called
highly unusual).

The principal told the boy’s mother that the boy had simulated
shooting someone on the bus with the offending novelty. However, both
the boy and his older sister, a first-grader, say the principal is not
telling the truth.

The Post explains that the principal — Jennifer L. Young, according to
Dowell Elementary’s website — told the kindergartener’s mother that
things would have been even worse had the toy gun been loaded with caps.
In that case, the school would have regarded the plaything as an
explosive and called the police.

“I have no problem that he had a consequence to his behavior,” the
mother told the Post. “What I have a problem with is the severity.”

The mother is also upset about the trauma her son experienced without her knowledge.

“Why were we not immediately contacted?” she asked

The 10-day suspension is officially for possessing a look-alike gun,
notes the Post. If the suspension is not lifted, the kindergartener
won’t be able to go to school the rest of the year. The suspension will
also be part of his permanent academic record.

The family has hired an attorney, Robin Ficker, who has managed to
become something of a national legal expert in amazing overreactions by
school officials over things that aren’t actual guns.

 

Ficker appealed the suspension on the family’s behalf on Thursday. On Friday, there will be a disciplinary conference.

The attorney noted that the the boy’s age is an essential factor when considering the punishment and the school’s actions.

“Kids play cowboys and Indians,” Ficker told The Post. “They play
cops and robbers. You’re talking about a little five-year-old here.”

This incident is the second incident of anti-gun hysteria to erupt in
a school setting in as many weeks. There have been many others over the
course of this academic year as well.

A six-year-old boy was punished because he took a plastic Lego gun
roughly the size of a quarter on a school bus headed to Old Mill Pond
Elementary School in Palmer, Mass. (RELATED: Kindergartener gets detention, forced to apologize for tiny Lego gun)

An eighth-grader in West Virginia was suspended and, astonishingly,
arrested after he refused to remove a t-shirt supporting the National
Rifle Association returned to school on Monday. The courageous
14-year-old then returned to school wearing exactly the same shirt,
which depicts a hunting rifle with the statement “protect your right.” (RELATED: Eighth-grader arrested over NRA shirt returns to school in same shirt)

Officials at an elementary school in small-town Michigan impounded a third-grader boy’s batch of 30 homemade birthday cupcakes
because they were adorned with green plastic figurines representing
World War Two soldiers. The school principal branded the military-themed
cupcakes “insensitive” in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting. (RELATED: School confiscates third-grader’s cupcakes topped with toy soldiers)

At Genoa-Kingston Middle School in northeast Illinois, a
teacher threatened an eighth-grader with suspension if he did not remove
his t-shirt emblazoned with the interlocking rifles insignia of the United States Marines. (RELATED: Junior high teacher tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get suspended)

At Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, a student was suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped a strawberry, pre-baked toaster pastry into something resembling a gun. (RELATED: Second-grader suspended for having breakfast pastry shaped like a gun)

At Poston Butte High School in Arizona, a high school freshman was suspended for setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his school-issued computer. (RELATED: Freshman suspended for picture of gun)

At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, school officials reportedly
yelled at a student and then searched her in front of her class after
she was found with a paper gun her grandfather had made for her. (RELATED: Paper gun causes panic)

In rural Pennsylvania, a kindergarten girl was suspended after she
told another girl that she planned to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty
toy gun that bombards targets with soapy bubbles. (RELATED: Kindergartener suspended for making ‘terroristic threat’ with Hello Kitty bubble gun)

At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Maryland, a six-year-old boy was suspended for making the universal kid sign for a gun, pointing at another student and saying “pow.” That boy’s suspension was later lifted and his name cleared. (RELATED: Pow! You’re suspended, kid)

[daMike]

schools out

[little_old_man]

Yeah, we're all pretty much fucked.

[PimpedOutPete]

Im sorry I missed that, I was busy holding up my local Tim Horton's with a lego gun... 

[Leadfinger]

People who over react to ridiculously non-threating situations are jerks jerking on kneejerk reactions . . . .  .The jerkoffs!

 

The psychological trauma these kids endure at the hands of school officials will prove to be much worse than the crimes they are accused of committing.

 

Schools now days seem to be a hang out for inept teachers/administrators  looking for drama and media attention at the expense of kids.

[kswift420]

dumb fucks

[Pharticus]

Anyone notice that nearly all of these incidents are happening east of the Mississippi?  What conclusion to you think us westerners should draw?! 

[Astronomer]

Anyone notice that nearly all of these incidents are happening east of the Mississippi?  What conclusion to you think us westerners should draw?! 

http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/Grand-Island-Preschooler-Forbidden-Sign-Language-for-His-Own-Name-167394325.html#.UDv3-z1PhKg.facebook

[Prinny]

wow that's just ridiculous!

[deerejon]

Astronomer that was unbelievable

[ANGUS]

Anyone notice that nearly all of these incidents are happening east of the Mississippi?  What conclusion to you think us westerners should draw?! 

I would be real care about saying anything about locations and referring to people east of the Mississippi river being like the people in the stories above?? As for you westerners ??? Ill stay right where I'm at here in West Kentucky, I've been to and have family in California and you can keep it!!! I have traveled all over the country and there stupid people everywhere!!!! One of the difference maybe about the stories above is that they are so far in-between that they make news here??? out west we'll just say  this shit happens ever day!!!???

[Joe Canadian]

Im sorry I missed that, I was busy holding up my local Tim Horton's with a lego gun... 

 

haha wtf is that supposed to mean, Pete?