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Originally Posted by Roaddog
I guess children are exempt from the use of free speech or thinking for themselves. It's a crazy mixed up country we live in and I'm glad my kids are grown.
It's going to be more difficult to know when to be worried about a student who may in fact be thinking of trouble if schools see pop-tarts and conversations like the one in this post as huge concerns!
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?
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?
No wonder you think the way you do....
Thanks for adding irrational thought to the conversation. I will repeat, the 10 day suspension was going overboard, but there was nothing wrong for them to question the boy about what he said to make sure they knew and he knew what he meant by that statement.
I wonder what the next two or three generations is going to look like now that Liberals seemingly dominate our educational institutions and are permitted to spew their ideologies on to our children.....
Welcome to the generation of bed wetters.....
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
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.
Oh my goodness Urban, I think we agree on something after all....
I don't see anything wrong with questioning the kid about what he was saying..... but to involve law enforcement and suspend the kid? Hey, this is how it is these days...
The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened."
If that was my kid they be calling me becsue he wouldn't be saying a word except call my Dad.
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.
Your point is well taken. There IS a bigger picture here. This was not an isolated incident.
From the article by the OP: The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened."
The 11 year old boy was questioned by two authority figures without the presence of his adult parent. The deputy questioned the father re: what firearms he had in the home, and wanted to conduct a warrentless search of the home.
Everybody is scared. Common sense is getting thrown out the window. Nobody has any answers or any solutions. Civil rights are being trampled on. I am also glad that my boys are grown.
Man or woman, the bus driver would be the first to get a real good ass beating.
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