The nanny state strikes in Goose Creek SC:

http://www.abcnews4.com/news/stories/1007/465601.html

Not suspended, but expelled! Hopefully, her parents will now home school her!

scmommy on October 22, 2007 at 12:34 PM

I recall an article from a few years ago in which an honors student was expelled or couldn’t graduate with her class or some such. A school security guard saw a steak knife in her car that had fallen out of some things she was moving to either a different home or an apartment.

Sometimes it is just shocking that supposedly educated people can be so stupid.

Zero tolerance? Nitwits on parade.

Cheerio on October 22, 2007 at 11:53 AM

Heck when I was in kindergarten, I (with a few of my friends) pulled my pants down on the playground and proceeded to play a game. We were playing a weird kind of tag, where the objective was for the kid who had been declared “it” to … *ahem* … grab one of the players “gun”s. If I were 5 years old today and that happened, God it would be a nightmare.

Fears of sexual harassment, indeed.

As to the kid in question … There is absolutely no sane reason to suggest a seven year old would assemble a bunch of rifles/shotguns/pistols, dress in his Dad’s trench coat (ten sizes too big for his body) and go on a shooting rampage.

There’s no other word to describe what this country is going through than “pussification.”

robblefarian on October 22, 2007 at 12:06 PM

I assume you mean most elementary school teachers, since the colleges and universities seem up to their necks in Ward Churchill wanna-bes.

the (public) charter school he attends 2nd grade

…should read “where he attends 2nd grade.”

Maybe his dad needs a refresher.

I love my boy.

No talk of suspensions, no red flags raised, no trips to the counselor’s office. Nothing but a big check mark and nice comment from his teacher.

Let them be shipped to the pinnacle of the system that they preach: The Gulag.

OhEssYouCowboys on October 22, 2007 at 4:58 PM

So succinct, so precise. Excellent comment.

Let them be shipped to the pinnacle of the system that they preach: The Gulag.

Methinks America would be a better place if the NEA ceased to exist and their mangement and employees were all serving life sentences….On a desert island.

Christina Hoff Sommers has been firing emergency flares about this for a long time.

I literally take about 15 mins everyday to deprogram any of the babblecock my son’s school may have forced him “learn” during the day.

“Don’t worry son, you can draw as many guns as you want when you get home.”

Four kindergarten boys were suspended in 2000 for playing cops and robbers, even though they were using their fingers as guns.

I couldn’t believe this! Those 5 yr old kids probably didn’t even know what they’d done wrong!

Dr. Charles G. Waugh on October 22, 2007 at 2:45 PM

How about drawing a gun that shoots birth control pills?

Not to worry, mommy. Just tell Kyle to draw birth control pills from now on. He’ll get gold stars.

Socialism abhors an armed populous. Therefore, each generation of children, in the public school system, must be re-educated – so that the Second Amendment will no longer be tolerated by the State. The key to the elimination of our rights, is to teach the children that the only rights that they have – are those tolerated by the State.

America is on the edge of the abyss; and Socialism is that abyss. I have lost hope for our country; because I have lost hope for our children.

I like the story Dennis Praeger (sp) tells about the mom who refused guns around her son. She made them sandwiches and they ate the sandwich, carving a gun out of the bread and then began play shooting with the “bread guns”. She realized she had lost the battle, and admitted that it is a passage of right.
My son, a more passive man you could not find, shot more cowboys, indians, bad men, wild animals, spacemen, and sisters than one could imagine.
Fools, the country is loaded with fools.

and that child’s parents complained about it to school officials.

What a bunch of hyper-sensitive pansy assed freakozoids.

A 6 year old draws a water gun and some kid’s parents get their panties in a wad? Gimme a break.

These are the same kind of folks who run to the principal’s office when their kid’s feelings get hurt. Instead of being a parent and teaching the kid how to deal with disappointment, they teach him to blame others and rely on mom and dad to solve all of his problems.

In addition to the suspension, I’m surprised the school didn’t order a full psychiatric workup and a double dose of ritalin for the offender.

I wonder if a Hisb’Allah flag would be allowed, with that Kalashnikov on it? Saudi flag with the sword?

http://www.abcnews4.com/news/stories/1007/465601.html

Not suspended, but expelled! Hopefully, her parents will now home school her!

Now that the Cleveland school shooting has blown over, everyone who knew the shooter agrees: all the signs were there, but no one did anything. So I guess the idea is to overreact while they’re little and ignore them when they’re older.