draw a picture and give it to them...
Posted on 06/07/2013 2:16:47 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
HAYWARD -- An elementary school will hold a toy gun exchange Saturday, offering students a book and a chance to win a bicycle if they turn in their play weapons.
Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill maintains that children who play with toy guns may not take real guns seriously.
"Playing with toys guns, saying 'I'm going to shoot you,' desensitizes them, so as they get older, it's easier for them to use a real gun," Hill said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
A book? ANY book? How about “1984” or “Atlas Shrugged” ?;)
100% of the comments at the link are ripping the school a new one!
LOL!
All you kids, bring in your pop-tarts crumbs. Never know... some evil kid might get a hold of them, and put them together to form a weapon.
The bicycle is a lot more dangerous than the toy guns. And the book they receive may be of questionable subject matter.
Whew Thank God it was not my former elementary school.
And probably Cool Aid to complete the day.
It’s a trap.
When the kids bring their plastic toy guns to school, the principal will suspend them, and then demand the police search their parent’s house.
My son was expelled (on the day of the OKC bombing) for possession of a 2” fluorescent orange squirt gun (he found on the walk to school). He had given it to his middle school sweetie, because it was her last day - she was moving out of state, and he wanted to give her something to remember him by. Yah, dopey sentimentalism runs in the family.
We had to go to the safe schools program run by the district, where the district cop running the assembly told the audience that the only people who can carry a gun at a public school are cops (in contradiction to state CCW law). I grabbed my son’s hand and patted my SP101 on my hip, under my jacket.
We didn’t go back, and he went to private school. His younger siblings were home schooled, and yes, proper firearms cleaning, safe use, law, and target aquisition, ballistics, trajectory and reloading were included in the curriculum.
I could use your home school course on reloading.
I’ve never been exposed to that.
Can’t say enough good things about home schooling. Better to have less income and raise some good kids.
Our betters are always flapping their cake-holes in telling is the schools don’t have enough money to teach, but stupid and pointless giveaways are A-OK, as long as they fit the narrative of the Long March?
Translation: we at the public school are incapable of teaching our students to distinguish toys from the real thing.
draw a picture and give it to them...
And to think that this is a person who is supposed to understand child development and learning.
Hayward is Oakland’s ugly little sister.
You’ll get my Fanner Fifty from my cold dead hands.
My youngest is going to college two years prior to his govt school peers.
Oh, and welding/fabrication was in his schooling - he fabricated a stainless kiln to cast parts, and he’s mastered the machinist lathe. I suppose a 3D printer is next ...
Hey very good. I applaud your efforts.
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