1st-grader points finger, says 'pow,' is suspended

[jackstar7]

And yet, if people were able to trust teachers and school admins this kind of overreaction to benign moments wouldn't be a thing. Because people are so litigious and reactionary, if the parents of the one kid who was the "victim" had heard about this and nothing had been done we'd just all be tsk-ing the parents who would then sue the school and every other admin involved...

This is the world you have created for all of us. Congrats. Your kids are still going to eat marbles.

 

[Iron Woode]

wait until the lawsuits filed by the other parents against the school for mental anguish and pain & suffering of their kids hit the news.

I am sure there are lawyers out there ready for this.

 

[GoPackGo]

You can't fix stupid and stupid seems to be winning.

 

[FerrelGeek]

There isn't a facepalm big enough to convey the stupidity of this comment. The facial expression being "sinister" or "threatening" doesn't mean anything to anyone who isn't terminally stupid. This is a six year old, pointing a finger.

Another perfect of zero tolerance = zero use of brain.

The principal and whoever suspended the kid should be fired and replaced with someone competent.

Very true. That's probably the stupidest thing I've read on here recently.

so retarded, if he was actually sending bad vibes to his friends and not just playing, then the teacher should have told him it's not nice etc. and that should have been it.

This is just out of this world, who in the hell controls your schools?

liberals.

90% + off public schools are controlled by radical left wing union loons.

This is precisely what led to the 'blame liberals' comments above. Bring in one of those itty bitty plastic knives to spread cheese on your crackers? You're gone! Hug your kindergarten teacher? You're branded a sexual predator! Play army or the like? You're out! All these are part of the zero tolerance / zero though brought about by (largely) liberal 'educators' - allegedly our best and brightest in society. Yes, this will offend the usual suspects on here, but the truth hurts.

 

[sm625]

michal1980

As I remember, Reagan started the "no tolerance" policy BS..

Still stupid, but hardly a liberal concept.

Reagan was a liberal. He was a deficit spending liberal, the first to popularize the idea of borrow-and-spend liberalism. Instead of being a tax-and-spend liberal, he simply borrowed and spent and let the federal reserve levy the taxes. It's not like he cut spending so I dont know why anyone would even pretend he was a conservative. Spending grew under reagan. Hell, even the stack of regulations grew monstrously under reagan. Yet none of those facts will stop these moron sheep from pretending he was a conservative.

 

[airdata]

liberal non thinking rules.

want to think like a liberal, pass a zero tolerance policy.

Every day I'm more and more confused about these liberals you people keep talking about.

 

[Incorruptible]

Reagan was a liberal. He was a deficit spending liberal, the first to popularize the idea of borrow-and-spend liberalism. Instead of being a tax-and-spend liberal, he simply borrowed and spent and let the federal reserve levy the taxes. It's not like he cut spending so I dont know why anyone would even pretend he was a conservative. Spending grew under reagan. Hell, even the stack of regulations grew monstrously under reagan. Yet none of those facts will stop these moron sheep from pretending he was a conservative.

Agree. There was nothing Conservative yet many liberals on here call him a "conservative" and think there so smart. In reality he was one of them

 

[blankslate]

Agree. There was nothing Conservative yet many liberals on here call him a "conservative" and think there so smart. In reality he was one of them

Then all of the Republican candidates running to be the presidential nominee during the primary must've been "so smart" as well. They invoked his name often enough.

 

[HomerJS]

Then all of the Republican candidates running to be the presidential nominee during the primary must've been "so smart" as well. They invoked his name often enough.

Played the Reagan drinking game during GOP debates. Usually passed out by closing statements

 

[Smoblikat]

Thought control has to start at a young age for it to be effective.

Now THATS thinking like a liberal.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Smoblikat

You mean that those rightwing radicals that home school to discard science, deny diverse equality, and espouse that all who do not pray like you are supposed to are evil and going to Hell are motivated by "liberal thinking"? lol

 

[trenchfoot]

yes, because those finger guns kill hundreds of thousands each year.

LOL, I just had to bump your response for everybody to see again. If you're a typical parent who care for and are truly concerned about teaching your kids right from wrong, you really wouldn't say stuff like that. And if you are a parent with an attitude like that, then I feel sorry for your kids.

 

[Incorruptible]

Then all of the Republican candidates running to be the presidential nominee during the primary must've been "so smart" as well. They invoked his name often enough.

I NEVER said they were smart, I was against them all, try to keep up. I supported Ron Paul.

 

[trenchfoot]

There isn't a facepalm big enough to convey the stupidity of this comment. The facial expression being "sinister" or "threatening" doesn't mean anything to anyone who isn't terminally stupid. This is a six year old, pointing a finger.

Another perfect of zero tolerance = zero use of brain.

The principal and whoever suspended the kid should be fired and replaced with someone competent.

Here we go again. Grow up please. Getting sued from parents whose children felt they were threatened by other kids is a common occurrence.

Your ignorance of how nasty kids can get among themselves is quite telling. Like I said, kids will do frightening things out of innocence and ignorance. They may not think they're doing anything wrong until the parents of the kids that got offended retaliates with the full force of the law. It happens everywhere every day.

Jeeez, practice some common sense please.

edit - As per my first post, I should reiterate that what I described was hypotheticals that could have occurred, as not enough info was in evidence in the linked article to know what really happened.

 

[Fingolfin269]

LOL, I just had to bump your response for everybody to see again. If you're a typical parent who care for and are truly concerned about teaching your kids right from wrong, you really wouldn't say stuff like that. And if you are a parent with an attitude like that, then I feel sorry for your kids.

Teaching a kid right from wrong boils down to explaining to a 6yr old that they're not allowed to play toy guns with their fingers anymore? Being a kid must suck today.

 

[xj0hnx]

Smoblikat

You mean that those rightwing radicals that home school to discard science, deny diverse equality, and espouse that all who do not pray like you are supposed to are evil and going to Hell are motivated by "liberal thinking"? lol

Typical progressive douchebag. Home schooling has nothing to do with anything in this thread, but you just couldn't resist bringing it up so you could get a jab in at it huh?

Not enough info to form a reasoned opinion about the incident. For instance, the kid pointing the finger might have prefaced his actions with a threat. Too, the kid's facial expression might have appeared sinister and threatening.

One thing I've learned about kids from raising my own and watching other kids interact among themselves when they think they're unsupervised: Never underestimate their ignorance/innocence driven ablilities, good and bad.

LOL, I just had to bump your response for everybody to see again. If you're a typical parent who care for and are truly concerned about teaching your kids right from wrong, you really wouldn't say stuff like that. And if you are a parent with an attitude like that, then I feel sorry for your kids.

I seriously feel sorry for your children.

 

[trenchfoot]

Teaching a kid right from wrong boils down to explaining to a 6yr old that they're not allowed to play toy guns with their fingers anymore? Being a kid must suck today.

That's not the point I was making in my first post. For clarification, merely pointing a finger and saying "pow" seems harmless on its face. However, what may have been said and the actions taken by the alleged "perp" before and after the finger pointing, may have, I repeat, may have, been anything other than innocent fun. We don't really know now, do we?

Again, all I offered up in my first post were possibilities that I felt was pertinent to the subject at hand.

Taking what I said out of context to make a point is not constructive at all, is it?

 

[Iron Woode]

That's not the point I was making in my first post. For clarification, merely pointing a finger and saying "pow" seems harmless on its face. However, what may have been said and the actions taken by the alleged "perp" before and after the finger pointing, may have, I repeat, may have, been anything other than innocent fun. We don't really know now, do we?

Again, all I offered up in my first post were possibilities that I felt was pertinent to the subject at hand.

Taking what I said out of context to make a point is not constructive at all, is it?

please stop posting.

now the 6 year old is a perp? He's now a gangbanger learning to ice people who dis him?

If that is how you feel about kids, maybe you need some psychiatric counseling.

It's people like you that have taken the fun out of being a kid.

 

[RampantAndroid]

If the teacher had a gun, just shoot the kid

Comments like these...well, not that I expect better from you, but still.

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[RampantAndroid]

Teaching a kid right from wrong boils down to explaining to a 6yr old that they're not allowed to play toy guns with their fingers anymore? Being a kid must suck today.

I was misfortunate enough to go to catholic schools from 4th through 12th grade. The grade school and middle school were the same place, just different sections of the building, same principal and whatnot. Anyway, right after I moved on to 9th grade they got a new principal. Saying the word gun - EVEN IN A CLASS LESSON became a fire-able offense for a teacher, or an offense that could result in EXPULSION for a student. So the kids instead came up with a new word: gan. If they said "gan" they meant "gun" but the teachers took forever to catch on...so kids kept talking about it.

Give me a fucking break people...so many better things to be doing. You teach that killing is bad, and that cover the whole "finger gun" stuff.

Hell, I played guns with my brother all the time - we had fake civil war rifles and ran around. I've got zero desire to go on a killing spree, even though I "killed" my brother with my fake gun plenty of times before I was 10 years old.

 

[jackschmittusa]

xj0hnx

If you could read, you'd know it's a response to a remark about mind control at a young age as some liberal agenda.

You play the ignorant fool well.

 

[trenchfoot]

please stop posting.

now the 6 year old is a perp? He's now a gangbanger learning to ice people who dis him?

If that is how you feel about kids, maybe you need some psychiatric counseling.

It's people like you that have taken the fun out of being a kid.

And I thought my mentioning taking my comments out of context in a previous post would take care of posts like yours.

If you had read my posts within the context I framed them in, you'd realize I was not stating my personal opinion on whether I felt the kid being disciplined was right or wrong. I was merely contributing possible scenarios which may have led to the child getting disciplined. I also stated facts about how parents will sue for these kinds of incidents. Any personal opinions of mine concerning this situation was provided to support the facts I laid out and did not in any way take a stance on this issue because as I stated and reiterated, there was not enough evidence to make an informed opinion on the matter.

Comprende?

edit - per the use of "alleged perp" - it was used for brevity and not meant to color my commentary in any way. Repeat - alleged perp.

 

[soundforbjt]

Don't want to get suspended, don't act/look like a "thug" in school.

 

[werepossum]

You can't fix stupid and stupid seems to be winning.

Perfect!

 

[sao123]

You can't fix stupid and stupid seems to be winning.

absolutely this :thumbsup: