*WHEW* Thanks. I was beginning to think I was the only one left who did that. Takes out a tree stump in one season. 
Posted on 03/19/2013 5:26:13 PM PDT by markomalley
The public education system in Maryland has officially gone off the deep end.
The Old Line State — where kids have been suspended for making guns with their fingers and with toaster pastries — now boasts a school district that prohibits hugging and homemade food in public elementary schools for anyone except a parent’s own children.
Parents must also register to enter the playground and they can’t push anyone except their own kids on the swings.
The Enterprise, a member of Southern Maryland Newspapers, has the story.
Officials with St. Mary’s County Public Schools say the new rules are necessary to provide a generally safe environment.
A committee composed of parents and elementary school principals created the regulations after a handful of meetings last year. Other new rules include a ban on ad-hoc parent-teacher conferences. The distribution of birthday invitations on school grounds is also now verboten.
“We’re not violating anybody’s rights,” Superintendent Michael Martirano told The Enterprise.
“We think it’s the right balance between safety and parental involvement,” Kelly Hall, a school district official, explained to The Enterprise.
“At the same time, parents were expressing some concerns,” Hall added.
“It is sad that it needs to be done for the safety of our children,” parent Sherry Whittles told The Enterprise. Whittles added that she agrees with the new rules.
“I think this is horrible,” school board member Cathy Allen opined to The Enterprise. “Elements of this are going to decrease parent involvement.”
For whatever reason, Maryland has been ground zero for school districts propounding goofy laws lately. Until now, though, those laws seem to have been limited to restricting things that represent guns but aren’t actually anything like real guns.
At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, a six-year-old boy was suspended for making the universal kid sign for a gun, pointing at another student and saying “pow.” (RELATED: Pow! You’re suspended, kid)
A second-grader in Baltimore 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 breakfast pastry)
In response to the infamous breakfast pastry incident, a Maryland state senator has crafted a bill to curb the zeal of public school officials who are tempted to suspend students as young as kindergarten for having things — or eating things — that aren’t actually anything like real guns. (RELATED: ‘Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act’ proposed in Maryland)
if eeveryone would pull them they’d have to lower the school prop tax part, they wouldn’t be able to justify current expenses. buildings would close,’besold, teachers would not be teaching, and let go.
‘S ok. There are still Americans that pee in their back yard when they want to.
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‘They’ wouldn’t if she would quit yelling about tracking on the freshly washed floor...
Geeeeeeeeez... You can’t please some people even if you hang ‘em with a new rope......
Seems these fools go out of their way to OUT-IDIOT each other.
And you will more than likely find that the most that go to the next PTA meeting (or school board) will be on board with this foolishness.
Like they ‘used’ to say.
If you really want something outlandish, make it as stupid and off the wall as possible because the only ones that will show up to vote for it are the idiots that ‘love’ the idea, and those that don’t like it think it is too dumb to pass.
My ex would fit (or does) right in with these fools.
At gsons Baseball games she has been known to make such prolific statements as “why do they slide or let them dive for the ball, they might get hurt”.
To offset her I proudly (and loudly) proclaim -especially to my grandsons (3B/SS)
“Dive for EVERY ball, you may get lucky and make a great play, if nothing else chances are you will keep it from going into the outfield, and at the very least, EVERYBODY will say you are always hustling - because you are”
Tyranny of the minority is more like it!
east coast VS west coast.
just like rappers. yo’ , represent,dawg.
True, but it is another step in that direction.
This bites, but fortunately hasn't made ts way to MontCo yet. My autistic kindergartener gets hugs from her teachers/paraeducators as rewards for staying on task -- it would really set her regular classroom assimilation back several steps if that motivator was taken away from her.
Heaven forbid you should push another parent’s kid on a swing. He might get cooties or something.
I’d really like to know the actual reasons for these regulations, other than the “it’s for the children” meme.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Almost forgot . . .
People’s Republik of Maryland Nanny State PING!
They’re going to put the kids in a gelatin medium hook them up to life support tubes and plug their heads into a Progressive main frame computer. Red pill or blue pill?
*WHEW* Thanks. I was beginning to think I was the only one left who did that. Takes out a tree stump in one season.
Thanks for the ping!
Comes down to separation of parent and state. Very surprising as St. Mary’s pretty conservative area as well as a strong military presence.
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