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Suspending a middle schooler for 10 days (actually the suspension was reduced, as already stated in the thread) is entirely different from losing someone 2/3 of their money. I don't think you can really compare education and finance fairly.
Quite the opposite, I can understand taking him aside and questioning him over this, especially in this day and age, but I think the suspension was uncalled for.
Why? He was clearly talking about saving the children at Sandy hooks, not the bully....as you stated....
This. I'm not here to rationalize anything. The school was in the wrong here.
Never said you were, and yes, the school is completely wrong, the child was talking about saving his friends (like a Sandy Hooks shooting) not a bully.
One instance of a lapse in common sense does not warrant termination in my book. Mistakes are going to be made, but we shouldn't fire someone because of a single mistake.
Look at the entire picture, not this instance/mistake (please look at their ages also):
1. Child suspended because he chewed a pop tart into something that looked like a gun, but the child said he was trying to make his pop-tart a mountain.
Do you want people running our schools ignoring warning signs for he next school shooting? If we didn't have school shootings, we wouldn't have to pay attention to warning signs.
What an ignorant leftist talking point, a 7 year old is what we are worried about? What about that pop tart gun, or mountain or what ever it was....or what about someone just saying that wanted to protect his/her friends against a Sandy Hooks incident?
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
I would rather the school be proactive in finding out what the student meant rather than ignore it and find out what the student meant.
Yes, I agree, but I highly doubt the next 6 year old will be doing anything.
Oh, and what makes you think that because they are talking about a gun is going to make the "the next" school shooter?
I think the principal should have told the young man that he was impressed with his attitude of public service and hoped he channeled it into becoming a fine police officer or serviceman some day. The kid shows potential but now his attitude may change. Someone needs to "catch" the principal some night in a dark parking lot and talk things over with him.....
This is why I am scared to death to even give my son a toy cap gun. His grandpa gave him one a few days ago and he seems to know exactly what to do with it. How, I don't know.
But I am scared. All these stories about kids talking about guns and playing war gets them kicked out of school. My son came home telling me they were playing bad guys in school. My first concern was, where they pretending to shoot each other! Can he get suspended for this typical boys behavior?
The whole thing has been blown out of proportion. I am not in favor of guns. I refuse to have one ( a real one ) in my house. But omg! Let kids, boys act like boys.
As apposed to suspending a boy (how old was he?) for "talking" about saving people?
LOL...leftist mentality...
Leftist mentality? Wasn't it the leftist ACLU who came to this boy's defense (as well as to the boy with the sign-language name that looks like a gun)?
And come on - it's not like this a multiple chose question where either you can suspend a child for no reason or do physical violence upon a school principal.
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