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originally posted in:TFS The Floods Sanctuary
Edited by Capitons Wang:
5/9/2013 11:38:50 AM
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Over reactions in schools Huuuurrr durrrr
This is a local story, about a kid that was suspended for taking a pencil, pointing it at a friends, and saying bang bang. Over reaction plain and simple to me, people are becoming so over sensitive, that they will suspend a child for two days for acting like a pencil is a gun and playing with friends.
[url=http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/-two-boys-suspended-for-pointing-pencils-like-guns-165811733.html]On Friday, Christopher Marshall, a second grader at Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Virginia and his classmate were playing with their pencils, pointing them at each other and making machine gun noises when a concerned teacher pulled them into the principals' office. ---Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for Suffolk Public Schools could not be reached for comment but according to a report from Fox43 she said, "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made" and that "Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community. Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day." [/url]
Thoughts?
Image is MFW
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Seriously with this shit?
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It's obviously violent videogames.
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Edited by Entraps: 5/10/2013 7:50:31 PMLol, that's retarded. Seriously, all kids play pretend guns in school at some point, whether with their fingers, or pencils. In fact, this isn't just an overreaction, it's something that should not have received a reaction at all.
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Public education administrators are inept morons; is this news to anyone?
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yay for potentially ruining a kids life!
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1 ReplyI'll admit, this is one of the cases where Zero Tolerance is just stupid...
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Should have had less than 7 pieces of lead kid.
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I think it's more of a precautionary matter. And frankly, "she couldn't be reached, but we decided some uninvolved woman said this" means jack shit. I think it was more of a "guns arn't toys, don't pretend to shoot your friends in the face with it." For all you know, that teacher knows somebody who was shot in the sandy school massacre, and you just claimed overreaction in the name of keeping guns. But the suspension was OTT.
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I poked a kid in the arm with a pencil once when I was in elementary school. All I got was just a referral.
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Edited by Enlightened One: 5/9/2013 2:29:38 PMThe world still has a lot of growing up to do. FYI: Our Charter School students play "Guns" everyday.. And its not always the exact same group of kids.. It is too much of a hassle to regulate that sort of thing at their recess time too. So all I do is make sure they are fake melee brawling each other.. That is when something bad could actually happen because they get too close to each other when they do that.
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What the -blam!- is going on with the people in your country, America?
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3 RepliesIt's only a problem now Why was it never a problem before
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Idiots.
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1 Reply[quote]Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day." [/quote] I don't think seven year olds watch the news in the first place or even have the capability to emphathize or care about such issues, especially when they don't even know the people affected by it.
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I guarantee we all did stuff like this as a kid. Huge over reaction.
