2nd-grader suspended over imaginary grenade

[Wilt The Stilt]

A seven-year-old boy was suspended from his elementary school for using an imaginary grenade while playing "Rescue the World" on the playground.
The story was featured on Fox 31 Denver. Second-grader Alex Evans pretended to throw a grenade into a box full of, in his words, "pretend evil forces."
"I pretended the box, there's something shaking in it, and I go pshhh," Alex explained.

Unfortunately for Alex, his exploits (heroic as they were) went against Mary Blair Elementary School. Those rules include no fighting (real or pretend) and no weapons (real or pretend).
Alex's mom commented that she doesn't think the rule is practical. "Honestly I don’t think the rule is very realistic for kids this age,” Mandie Watkins said. "I think that when a child is trying to save the world, I don’t think he should be punished for it."

Alex is just as perplexed as his mom. "I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended," he told Fox 31.
A similar incident took place last month in Pennsylvania when a fifth-grade girl was reprimanded by school officials for bringing a piece of paper in the shape of gun to class.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/2nd-grader-suspended-over-imaginary-grenade-224740937.html


Don't you find the schools are getting carried away with these new rules?.

 

[oldguyzer]

Absolutely gone ovecommunity, in everything. Dumb down the education, take all the fun out of everything. Give a kid a Playstation to keep him quiet. And they wonder why kids have OCD. :biggrin2:

 

[HonestGeorge]

Just not right and the same schools that took away Halloween school dress up day.

 

[BuzzSaw]

These are supposedly educated people making these decisions? We're in trouble!

 

[oldguyzer]

And if they don't have the chops to teach, they write the text books. :biggrin2:

 

[HOF]

Were there teachers monitoring the yard?

Alittle common sense, it would be a good time to be proactive and educate versus reactive and "dispend" as the child said. CNN's starting point had this on this morning, I can agree with not having such games played but they have to be taught why, not just consequenced. Fake guns, cap guns, toy grenades and such shouldn't be at school but make believe? He wasn't bullying or fighting, he was playing G.I. Joe which most of us did as kids.

This is not shocking; it's just stupid!

Teachers take the time to teach not just in the class but in the playground.

 

[oldguyzer]

Maybe they can give him an imaginary spanking

 

[BEER]

Were there teachers monitoring the yard?

Alittle common sense, it would be a good time to be proactive and educate versus reactive and "dispend" as the child said. CNN's starting point had this on this morning, I can agree with not having such games played but they have to be taught why, not just consequenced. Fake guns, cap guns, toy grenades and such shouldn't be at school but make believe? He wasn't bullying or fighting, he was playing G.I. Joe which most of us did as kids.

This is not shocking; it's just stupid!

Teachers take the time to teach not just in the class but in the playground.

I was just about to say that too.

 

[Butch]

Were there teachers monitoring the yard?

Their union leader told them to just do less for more. Just like our Ontario teachers.

 

[Shiek]

A friend of mine had this to say about it. He might be a bit on the extreme side but he has a point that this is carrying things too far. I can remember when we used to take cap guns to school until one teacher got all huffy about it and had the school ban them. All the kids were in shock. Many of my older friends 20 years previously used to take their 22's or bb gun rifles to school to shoot cans after lunch and no one batted an eye about it. Although I understand all to well the dangers, the sad thing is, no one is teaching them respect for things including guns and people. A former principal at a school I attended in grade 4 used to teach kids about looking both ways when crossing the road and walking out between parked cars with a demonstration. He had someone tie a rope to a road cone and pull it out just as he was driving by it. He couldnt stop fast enough and crushed the cone. That taught us to be careful and its a lesson I never forgot. He also taught us about firearms and the dangers and instilled a healthy respect for them in us. You wont find anything like that today in the classroom. So it's up to us as parents to make sure our children are educated and not brainwashed into thinking sex is ok at 10 years old and the mere pointing of a finger and saying bang isnt.

[h=5]Across the USA, the school system is waging a traumatizing war on youth's aged 4-10 trying to instill a complete fear of guns and a disdain for firearms rights. How? Children as young as 5 years old are being SUSPENDED and EXPELLED for things like : a clear plastic gun for show and tell, a gun SHAPED piece of paper!, a gun SCREEN SAVER on a laptop, 2 children were suspended for playing "Cops and robbers" and using their FINGERS as guns! Another boy was suspended for having "an extensive knowledge of firearms" and drawing a picture of a gun! and finally a 7 year old boy was recently suspended for throwing a PRETEND GRENADE into a "Box of evil" while "trying to save the world"

Yes, your kids are being TERRORIZED, and even ARRESTED in certain cases for simply drawing a picture or even TALKING about guns. The message is clear. We want to BRAINWASH The children so they will not believe in the second amendment.[/h]

 

[papasmerf]

A friend of mine had this to say about it. He might be a bit on the extreme side but he has a point that this is carrying things too far. I can remember when we used to take cap guns to school until one teacher got all huffy about it and had the school ban them. All the kids were in shock. Many of my older friends 20 years previously used to take their 22's or bb gun rifles to school to shoot cans after lunch and no one batted an eye about it. Although I understand all to well the dangers, the sad thing is, no one is teaching them respect for things including guns and people. A former principal at a school I attended in grade 4 used to teach kids about looking both ways when crossing the road and walking out between parked cars with a demonstration. He had someone tie a rope to a road cone and pull it out just as he was driving by it. He couldnt stop fast enough and crushed the cone. That taught us to be careful and its a lesson I never forgot. He also taught us about firearms and the dangers and instilled a healthy respect for them in us. You wont find anything like that today in the classroom. So it's up to us as parents to make sure our children are educated and not brainwashed into thinking sex is ok at 10 years old and the mere pointing of a finger and saying bang isnt.

Across the USA, the school system is waging a traumatizing war on youth's aged 4-10 trying to instill a complete fear of guns and a disdain for firearms rights. How? Children as young as 5 years old are being SUSPENDED and EXPELLED for things like : a clear plastic gun for show and tell, a gun SHAPED piece of paper!, a gun SCREEN SAVER on a laptop, 2 children were suspended for playing "Cops and robbers" and using their FINGERS as guns! Another boy was suspended for having "an extensive knowledge of firearms" and drawing a picture of a gun! and finally a 7 year old boy was recently suspended for throwing a PRETEND GRENADE into a "Box of evil" while "trying to save the world"

Yes, your kids are being TERRORIZED, and even ARRESTED in certain cases for simply drawing a picture or even TALKING about guns. The message is clear. We want to BRAINWASH The children so they will not believe in the second amendment.

your friend is not far off the mark.

It is a clear goal of Obama to disarm America.