It’s come to this
Talking with a friend about a pink toy bubble gun got a five-year-old kindergarten girl in the Mount Carmel Area School District labeled as a terrorist threat, according to an attorney.The incident occurred Jan. 10 while the girl was waiting in line for a school bus, said Robin Ficker, the Maryland lawyer retained by the girl’s family. …Talking with a friend, the girl said something to the effect “I’m going to shoot you and I will shoot myself” in reference to the device that shoots out bubbles. The girl did not have the bubble gun with her and has never shot a real gun in her life, Ficker said. Elementary school officials learned of the conversation and questioned the girls the next day, Fickler said. He said the girl did not have a parent present during the 30 minutes of questioning. The result, he said, was that the student was labeled a “terrorist threat” and suspended for 10 days, Ficker said. The school also required her to be evaluated by a psychologist, Ficker said. “This little girl is the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania,” he said.
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5th graders at a Bieber concert .
God help us .
Lucano on January 20, 2013 at 12:42 PM
cozmo on January 20, 2013 at 12:49 PM
When Hello Kitty bubble guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have Hello Kitty bubble guns.
baldylox on January 20, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Maybe this is the Bosnian sniper Shrillary was talking about.
Flange on January 20, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Absolute absurdity. Too many so-called educators are so indoctrinated themselves, they’ve lost all sense of reality. I hope this lawsuit ends with firing and some charges against those ‘officials’.
INC on January 20, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Hide the water pistols and super-soakers.
INC on January 20, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Sounds like a bunch of bullying and name-calling by the school officials. They need to attend re-education seminars about sensitivity, tolerance, diversity, bullying, etc., because they violated a lot of their own principles.
Christien on January 20, 2013 at 12:59 PM
“Out of an abundance of caution…”
So-called zero tolerance policies are implemented in part to preclude any rational decision-making and judgment by school employees.
In that they’ve succeeded spectacularly.
Drained Brain on January 20, 2013 at 1:00 PM
I have many many public school teachers in my family. My mother was an English teacher, my wife taught kindergarten, my sister-in-law teaches calculus, my mother and father-in-law are both retired teachers, and many more. But I can’t stress enough how broken the system is, and how impossible it is to untie the Gordian knot. You’d be amazed at the stories I hear. Parents blame teachers; teachers blame parents, school boards, and politicians; politicians blame lack of funding (which is such crap), and so on and so on. Public school is dying, rapidly. If you have the money, find a private school that has proven to be a school that produces a well educated student. If you don’t have the money, then look into home schooling. Get your kids out of a dying system that can’t help but suspend little girls for their bubble blowing toys.
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM
IMO, they are probably bunker types. Y’know, the type that hunkers inside the school building all day, not even bothering to see what really happens on the playground (not their job, of course). Then, they bravely gang up on a sheepdog kid who was protecting weaker kids from bullies–can’t have anyone showing them up for failing at their cushy jobs.
Christien on January 20, 2013 at 1:03 PM
The only way to stop a bad 5-year-old girl with a Hello Kitty Bubble Gun is with a good 5-year-old girl with a Hello Kitty Bubble Gun.
The Rogue Tomato on January 20, 2013 at 1:13 PM
You’re all a bunch of racist bitter clingers.
You HAVE to go to extremes to get a proper brainwashing, wingnuts.
Rebar on January 20, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Public school teachers don’t get fired. They get moved to a different classroom. Public school administrators don’t get fired.
They get promoted.
hopeful on January 20, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Parody is dead.
Fenris on January 20, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Yes, because if you have a terrorist threat, the best thing to do is to sit them out for 10 days. Because, as everyone knows, terrorists reform on the 11th day. It’s in the rules.
Shump on January 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM