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A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.
Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days but was reduced to two.
Yea, thats just going overboard. I can understand teachers don't want to hear " Im gonna shoot you with ......gun...." but there should be no punishment. Just tell the kid's parents to tell their child he or she cant talk like that in school.
Yea, thats just going overboard. I can understand teachers don't want to hear " Im gonna shoot you with ......gun...." but there should be no punishment. Just tell the kid's parents to tell their child he or she cant talk like that in school.
Maybe you'll see vaccination syringe guns down the pike.
A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.
Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days but was reduced to two.
They'll reprimand the administrator and put them on paid suspension and settle with the parents or at least drop the suspension.
I remember playing bank robbery in kindergarten. Some kids were the bank employees, some were police, some were the bandits. We used to share sweet tarts and pez and pretend they were energy pills. Today that would be drug contraband.
Oh, for the simpler saner days of the early 1970s.
In junior high school we'd draw maps of the school and would write stories and plan strategies against students and teachers( who we disliked) becoming mutants and zombies and where we'd make our stand and how we'd fight the marauding monster hordes with clever ways of dispatching them. A Columbine was never imagined but today if a student did the same they'd end up expelled or in jail. Again, for the simpler saner days of the 1970s.
A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.
Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days but was reduced to two.
That is the problem when parents want (vote in board members based on supporting) Zero Tolerance in the schools. They get zero tolerance. Circumstances or literal meaning is thrown out the window.
We used to play cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians and all of that in school. We even had an area on the playground that was a jail and the robbers hideout, complete with hostages.
We ran around shooting each other with our fingers and playing dead on the ground. We would move the bodies out of the way.
By today's standards we should have all been expelled.
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