Topic: Seven-year-old boy lobs pretend grenade during recess, gets suspended

[Pandora]

Time for an update on the UNsane goings-on in the government institutions known as schools.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/07/seven-year-old-boy-lobs-pretend-grenade-during-recess-gets-suspended/

Mary Blair Elementary principal Valerie Lara-Black called home on Friday to report that Evans had been suspended for pretending to toss an imaginary grenade at make-believe evildoers, according to Mandie Watkins, Evans’s mother.

Got that?  He threw nothing and nobody; it was what he was thinking.  A few days later, the school changed its story: the boy was seen throwing rocks during recess, although it wasn't said if the target was human or if there was a target.

There are other incidents, at other places, mentioned in the link:

At Poston Butte High School on the suburban fringes of Phoenix, a high school freshman was suspended for setting a picture of an AK-47 as the desktop background on his school-issued computer.

At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, school officials reportedly yelled at a student and then searched her in front of her class after she was found with a paper gun her grandfather had made for her.

In rural Pennsylvania, a kindergarten girl was suspended for making a “terroristic threat” after she told another girl that she planned to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that bombards targets with soapy bubbles.

At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Maryland, a six-year-old boy was suspended for making the universal kid sign for a gun, pointing at another student and saying “pow.” That boy’s suspension was later lifted and his name cleared.

In Sumter, South Carolina, a six-year-old girl was expelled for bringing a clear plastic Airsoft gun that shoots plastic pellet to class for show-and-tell. The expulsion was later revoked.

[IronDioPriest]

Insanity.

[Glock32]

When are people ever going to demand a stop? I guess never, and that is exactly why the "we must let cooler heads prevail" cowards and Tone Police are so badly wrong. You have to get in these people's faces and display righteous outrage. It's time for that. Otherwise all your calm, collected, nicely worded letters are ignored and next thing you know this stuff has gone on long enough that the normalcy bias sets in, and it's pretty much too late at that point. That's already largely happened. People are now willing to accept the premise that an elementary school student playing Cops & Robbers on the playground with an imaginary gun is something that warrants severe disciplinary action. They might say "Oh we know he's just a kid and didn't mean any harm" but in the next breath accede to the argument that it cannot be tolerated.

WTF?  I remember being in elementary school and taking Lazer Tag gear to school. Yes we played with them on the playground and as far as I know none of us turned into mass murderers.

[Libertas]

Heard this on the radio, my first thought was if he was pretending to abort an imanginary fetus he would no doubt cause all the moonbat faculty to drop everything and applause.