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Actually when I was a kid all the kids in our neighborhood used to have BB gun fights. Still have some of the scars to this day. lol Sure that was taking things a bit far even for those days but nobody ever lost an eye.
My boys used to have air soft gun wars in the neighborhood. All the neighborhood kids had eye goggles or ski goggles and some form of air soft guns. I still find those darn plastic pellets in places...the garden, the garage, the driveway cracks, the deck.....
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Originally Posted by chadgates
We also were pretty crazy, and used to make "potato guns" and play war while firing tennis balls at each other.
No scars, but damn those things stung.
My boys built several of those with the neighborhood kids, too. I remember buying bags of potatoes for their ammo....
Adult was arrested here in Miami a few years ago after a dispute at a local country club. It was at the tennis courts and the guy held his racket like the shooting position of a rifle towards his antagonist-a woman. She called the cops and he was arrested.
She was an "alleged" adult?
Was the racket loaded?
I didn't even bother to read thru this whole thread..This suspension is totally ridiculous..a child of that age mimics..so was it a movie he watched/TV program/parental influence..Yikes back in my day 60 years ago..we mimic'd a whole load of things..It's called playing...There's is something wrong with how school authorities are dealing with "Normal" behaviour versus ABERRANT one's!!
Suspension..is NOT the answer...I call it knee jerk behaviour modifications all the while having absolutely NO educations of normal behaviour of childhood behaviour.....Don't teacher's take such courses???
If I were the parents I'd take this all the way to the top. Go to their district office and file a complaint. Get that unwarranted suspension reversed.
Imaginary bow and arrow and he's suspended for 3 days?
Are we now going to tell our children, you're imagination will get you suspended so stop being imaginative
Sorry, this is way overboard.
It's a private Catholic School. They can make any rule they wish, you know.....
Just a point about kids this age. Playing these games is actually good for them since it lets them act out being the good guy and saving the world. OTOH, I can see why you would not want them playing this in school, so we used to intervene and help them change the play - turn the bow and arrow into a fire house and put out an imaginary fire, for example. Kids love that kind of thing, too and it allows them to play at being a different kind of hero.
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