6 Year Old student suspended for gun gesture

[Mom49of4]

I have done the same when it came to a suspension with one of my children. The administrators listened and agreed that putting my son out on suspension for being tardy to school was giving him what he wanted - not to be in school.

Administrators are not always right.

[WKDWZD]

Just let the little buggers turn up when they like and do what they like eh? Seems like a plan.

[Mom49of4]

Suspensions should be used in extreme circumstances. If kids come to school drunk or high on drugs then suspend them.

[Wizard777]

Just let the little buggers turn up when they like and do what they like eh? Seems like a plan.

Most of all you can't allow the staff to do what ever they like. You can't suspend a kid for threatening to shoot a student because he playfully points a finger at them and says bang. When they go to the playground to play superhero's and one of them plays the super villain. You can't suspend him for plotting to overthrow all the worlds governments to enslave all of humanity to his master plan to rule the universe. Hitler was once a seemingly sweet innocent 6 year old kid. If only they could have stopped him then. What if the plot actually works? There are just a million ways to freak yourself out and one is more riduculous than the next.

[WKDWZD]

Most of all you can't allow the staff to do what ever they like. You can't suspend a kid for threatening to shoot a student because he playfully points a finger at them and says bang.

After the third time of telling, I think it is reasonable to take stronger action. If there was an element of bullying, suspension seems apt. I really don't believe that the boy just pointed a finger and said bang.

When they go to the playground to play superhero's and one of them plays the super villain. You can't suspend him for plotting to overthrow all the worlds governments to enslave all of humanity to his master plan to rule the universe. Hitler was once a seemingly sweet innocent 6 year old kid. If only they could have stopped him then. What if the plot actually works? There are just a million ways to freak yourself out and one is more riduculous than the next.

"Overthrow all the worlds governments...", "Hitler..." (I never expected Godwin's Law to be evoked in this thread ), have you been given a bad bunch of 'stuff' for your birthday, is your bong cracked, perchance?

[Wizard777]

After the third time of telling, I think it is reasonable to take stronger action. If there was an element of bullying, suspension seems apt. I really don't believe that the boy just pointed a finger and said bang.

I have read many articles on this and some were more informative than others. But yes, that is essentially what happened. He also wasn't the only kid doing this. But he was the only one suspended for it.

"Overthrow all the worlds governments...", "Hitler..." (I never expected Godwin's Law to be evoked in this thread ), have you been given a bad bunch of 'stuff' for your birthday, is your bong cracked, perchance?

I though you would recognize the reductio ad absurdum when you saw it. I recognize your reductio ad ridiculum.

[WKDWZD]

...I though you would recognize the reductio ad absurdum when you saw it. I recognize your reductio ad ridiculum.

Ah, But you missed my ad incommodum...

[Mom49of4]

Controversy at a Talbot County school after two six-year-old boys were suspended while playing cops and robbers during recess and using their fingers to make an imaginary gun.

“It’s ridiculous,” said parent Julia Merchant

This is the second time a Maryland child has been suspended for such play. Earlier this month, six-year-old Rodney Lynch was suspended from his Montgomery County school after pretending to fire an imaginary gun more than once.

This is absolutely ridiculous. We now expect children to be little soldiers.

[Wizard777]

This is absolutely ridiculous. We now expect children to be little soldiers.

There is a fine line between education and mind control. They've definitely crossed that lined. It's like they are engaging in magical thinking. That if they can keep the knowledge of guns out of the minds of children. They will magically create a future in which guns do not exist. The sad part is even if they succeed in creating that magical future. The fact is that the information that creates a gun will still be out there in the aether. It will only be a matter of time before someone figures out how reassemble that information to recreate the gun. Information cannot be destroyed. At some point PC ceases to be Politically Correct and becomes Psychotically Correct and when kids can't be kids. Know that you have crossed that line long ago.

[Sprightly]

I know a 10th grade student who was very recently sent to the office because his teacher saw that he had drawn a marijuana plant. The kid is very artistic (apparently, the drawing is quite beautful). He had not disrupted class, did not destroy property, and, in fact, drew the plant on his personal art pad, but because he drew an illegal drug, he's in trouble.

[Marshan Man]

I know a 10th grade student who was very recently sent to the office because his teacher saw that he had drawn a marijuana plant. The kid is very artistic (apparently, the drawing is quite beautful). He had not disrupted class, did not destroy property, and, in fact, drew the plant on his personal art pad, but because he drew an illegal drug, he's in trouble.

Wow. Just the plant?? I could see if he drew some red eyed guy smoking a blunt or a fat whiteboy or something, and even that would be a hell of a stretch...

How can it be that our society is becoming so "thenthitive" but isht only seems to keep getting worse and worse...

[Sprightly]

Wow. Just the plant?? I could see if he drew some red eyed guy smoking a blunt or a fat whiteboy or something, and even that would be a hell of a stretch...

How can it be that our society is becoming so "thenthitive" but isht only seems to keep getting worse and worse...

I swear the story to be true. He's my nephew.

[Wizard777]

I know a 10th grade student who was very recently sent to the office because his teacher saw that he had drawn a marijuana plant. The kid is very artistic (apparently, the drawing is quite beautful). He had not disrupted class, did not destroy property, and, in fact, drew the plant on his personal art pad, but because he drew an illegal drug, he's in trouble.

Then to add insult to injury after that he probably had to go to social studies and learn about the first amendment right to freedom of expression. What an exceedingly cruel taunt that would be.

[RobbieB]

I know a 10th grade student who was very recently sent to the office because his teacher saw that he had drawn a marijuana plant. The kid is very artistic (apparently, the drawing is quite beautful). He had not disrupted class, did not destroy property, and, in fact, drew the plant on his personal art pad, but because he drew an illegal drug, he's in trouble.

I could see suspending the kid if he had shown up high, but just drawing a plant? Maybe he's thinking of becoming a botanist.

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R. Bryant
Charter Bus Iowa

[Sprightly]

Then to add insult to injury after that he probably had to go to social studies and learn about the first amendment right to freedom of expression. What an exceedingly cruel taunt that would be.

Probably drug counseling.

[Sprightly]

I could see suspending the kid if he had shown up high, but just drawing a plant? Maybe he's thinking of becoming a botanist.

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R. Bryant
Charter Bus Iowa

He wasn't high. However, he has gotten high. Given that his father is a wake and baker -- not surprising.

[Wizard777]

Probably drug counseling.

Yeah, you wouldn't want to take a chance on him becoming a brilliant and talented Herbologist. I guess it's best to play it safe and sell him short. You wouldn't want a child thinking they could do great things if they set their mind to it.

[bullmikey]

You know, when I was in grade school we would play cowboys on the playground every day. We shot each other over and over again with our finger guns. We'd do OK Corral shoot-outs...I don't know how many times I died on that playground. I just could never seem to get the hang of the quick draw. SMH

Darned shame everyone has to tiptoe through life these days. The actions of a few have a large impact on many.

I was just thinking the same thing.

We must be of a certain age, huh?


We were all packing finger six shooters back then. Never had to relaod. Always had plenty of ammo. Once it a while it was debatable as to who go who first. I used to fan my thumb when I was feeling like Billy the Kid or Bat Masterson. Those were some fine times, wern't they?

As far as doing it during class, I didn't know many teachers that let you get away with anything they said not to do more than one time. A lick of the old yard stick cured you of that habit right quick. No need to bug hard working moms and dads about that kind of stuff unless the teacher though you deserved another whack when you got home. But it usually wasn’t a problem because we knew the difference between what flew in the school yard and what crashed in the classroom. The occasional problem got solved on the spot and then life went on. Anyway, nobody ever got suspended over stuff like that. Suspension was for serious stuff and serious stuff didn’t happen until you were in high school. A police officer escorting a first or second grader from a classroom in hand cuffs would have started a revolution.

I'm constantly told we live in enlightened times and that the 1940-50s I grew up in were terrible times in comparison. We were so backwards then, wern't we? We didn't even realize that growing up was supposed to be a life threatening experience.

[Calamari]

Wow, the administrators at that school have judgment almost as bad as the moderators here.

[Marshan Man]

I could see suspending the kid if he had shown up high, but just drawing a plant? Maybe he's thinking of becoming a botanist.

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R. Bryant
Charter Bus Iowa

How would they prove he was high?