Posted on 06/01/2013 9:06:25 AM PDT by IbJensen
If this was my little boy they would have called the police on a screaming mother. There was a teachable moment and they let it pass.
If the child was gay I’m sure they would have said “don’t bring it to school again dear” patted him on the head and sent him on his way.
Well, I guess, if it was loaded with caps, THAT’S dangerous.
I wasn’t involved, but my older brother and a neighbor kid, back there in farm country, used to go out when they were maybe twelve or thirteen, and use their bolt-action .22-short rifles to plink at gophers and squirrels. However, if this got too boring, they would start playing “Nazi and GI” (this was in the early or middle 1940’s, WW II was still going on), hiding behind trees and rocks, then jumping out and snapping off a shot, always intentionally aimed to the side or above the other’s head.
Occasionally one or the other would fall over and “play dead”. In retrospect, it was a damned wonder they did not end up shooting each other.
“Unbelievable. Two hours without calling up his parents?”
As the left has said, ‘It takes a village...., and the children belong to the community’...
>>Anybody who sends their kid to a government school is guilty of child endangerment.
Yep. Give up the smartphone, 300 channel cable TV with HBO, and the new $35k SUV if necessary, but get your children away from government schools! Or don’t have children if the “stuff” is that important.
Or put their eye out LOL
This idiocy has got to stop.
2 hours of interrogation? Really?! My goodness these administrators are complete idiots. What did they think they were going to get out of the lad? A planned attack with a toy gun? Damn their stupid!
My cousins used to play such games with BB guns. They shot to hit. No lost eyes.
American public schools have become prisons and just about everyone is starting to notice. They are doomed to further decline and will only be turned around when there is school choice.
If it was my little boy, they would have called the police on a guy using a baseball bat as a club--and they would have called an ambulance, or maybe the county coroner for his victims.
This is the logical result of zero tolerance. Zero tolerance has nothing to do with safety but is about conditioning the teachers to blindly follow rules. Just like good little Nazis.
This 5 year old has succeeded in making the adults look like idiots.
Correction... these adults are idiots!
In 1960, a classmate of mine brought a "German bullet" to class for show and tell--I believe it was a .50 cal. round, a war souvenir from WWII. Had he done it today, the school would probably have been put on lockdown and the student packed off to finish his education at a California Youth Authority facility.
We knew how to use weapons and hunt safely long before hunter safety courses came to be. We still took the safety courses though just to see if the instructors knew what they were doing. * Grins!
I would meet wiyh the principal and make her talk to me until she couldn’t hold it any longer.
School administrators are wasting their time on episodes like this.
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Absolutely NOT , they have won the game ,, they got huge publicity out of this ... kids are now conditioned to fear even being in the presence of anything that resembles a gun. This is not the school per se , it is the goal of the left many levels above this local school admin.
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