7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real

[Dubya]

Schools have absolutes and no room for imagination or completely harmless fun. Also no room for common sense. The kid was pretending to rescue the world from bad guys. Not allowed if you throw a pretend grenade and make a pshh sound when you do it. Teachers immediately pushed the panic button. Have schools become so narrow minded that they can no longer comprehend the nature of kids, especially young boys, who mimic super heroes or even our brave military? This crap needs to stop. Meanwhile, some older child is being bullied in high school while teachers turn their backs and it will be that child that gets pushed off the edge. No wonder they are ineffective at stopping violence. They pick on children for totally innocent things and ignore the real problems. The new rules seem designed to stifle the children's imagination and train them to think like mind-numbed idiots.

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real


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That'll teach that kid! He shouldn't be pretending to have grenades in the 2nd grade and should have real ones, right gun nuts? Grenades are arms and a little fragging will put that teacher in her place.

Retard, moron, idiot, you fill all 3 of those to a T.

Take a look at your yourself, fool! You probably worried about fragging for your lack of a sense of humor, Gunny.

We have another gun nut who wants a child to learn the meaning of gun and firearm to learn the 2nd Amendment that doesn't contain the word gun or firearm. What 7 year old wouldn't know the meaning of gun. That Sassyquatch thinks it's a conspiracy to not teach children the meaning of gun. You guys are The Three Stoogies all rolled up into one.

Now, go find yourself another hooker in J-ville!

 

[Barb]

What happened - did you get too beat up on your communist curriculum thread, that you abandoned it and started a new "what's wrong with our schools" thread?

Lemme guess ... your company is in the charter schools business, huh?

Honestly, I can sympathize with this. My son, in his last year at jr high, looked up the recipe for a stink bomb. He didn't HAVE a bomb, he didn't even have the PARTS for one, only the recipe, and for a STINK bomb at that. A boy being a boy, unfortunately after the tragic events at Virginia Tech. The Jr. Principal, (named appropriately enough after a German Gestapo head) decided to make an example of him, and I found it my duty to make mincemeat of her. He was back in school the next day, with papers in place instructing Kaiser Wilhelm that she, nor anyone else at the school, could seach or question my child without me present. He was never bothered again.

The funny thing in all this, including who the OP is, and the demographic she represents? My son's SD was VERY "conservative;" the bus drivers could play country music or nothing at all. Rock and Roll was "subversive."

It isn't "liberals" who are slavish to the arguable "security" sold by "authority;" THAT dubious distinction is clearly the purview of Clementine and Bigfoot.

Here is an odd story. My first grade teacher would pass out clay for us to play with and build something creative. I used to make a building with roads and real tiny people. I'd put the tiny people in the building and stab it repeatedly with a sharpened pencil. Then I'd open up the building and see if any of the tiny people were injured. I thought my teacher was mean when she came by and told me I was sick for doing it.

Well I was a little kid then, but the adults weren't mean for giving us nuclear drills all the time and worrying a little kid about getting hit by nuclear missiles. I was just checking out the chances of surviving.

I remember those drills. I remember when we went from hiding under our desks (in a classroom with at least one wall full of windows) to the next year, out in the halls, arms length from each other, rolled into balls, up against the walls. The teachers didn't like being asked if it was making us safer or just easier to count.

 

[Barb]

Thing is, schools will not tolerate the mere mention of any weapon. Kids normally play pretend and often copy super heroes or maybe even their fathers fighting for our country. And for that harmless play, they are treated like bad children and get suspended from school. The lesson is that what they did, in this case pretending to get the bad guys, is wrong. For all we know, the kid was imitating Obama getting bin Laden. It's wrong to kill the bad guys, eh?

Because of the overly strict policy of no guns or any mention of guns allowed, I take it to mean that children will never sit in class or elsewhere in the school and discuss gun rights. If there is a discussion of the constitution and bill of rights, how do they get around talking about guns?

No pretending, no imagining being a good guy after the bad guys, no slipping and saying gun, even though guns are legal and it's our right to own them. No discussion the war in history class because that involves weapons. But, hey, kiddies, let's create a commie flag. I know damn well that no liberal teacher is going to encourage a child to create a commie or socialist flag in a negative manner. That is because they see socialism, or communism, as a positive thing.

Actually, its because they see them as things, economic or political systems studied along side capitalism, imperialism, and any other isms. Neither good or bad, but hopefully the kids can more coherently identify them when the lesson is done than the "grown ups" who seem to surround them

 

[Dubya]

Honestly, I can sympathize with this. My son, in his last year at jr high, looked up the recipe for a stink bomb. He didn't HAVE a bomb, he didn't even have the PARTS for one, only the recipe, and for a STINK bomb at that. A boy being a boy, unfortunately after the tragic events at Virginia Tech. The Jr. Principal, (named appropriately enough after a German Gestapo head) decided to make an example of him, and I found it my duty to make mincemeat of her. He was back in school the next day, with papers in place instructing Kaiser Wilhelm that she, nor anyone else at the school, could seach or question my child without me present. He was never bothered again.

The funny thing in all this, including who the OP is, and the demographic she represents? My son's SD was VERY "conservative;" the bus drivers could play country music or nothing at all. Rock and Roll was "subversive."

It isn't "liberals" who are slavish to the arguable "security" sold by "authority;" THAT dubious distinction is clearly the purview of Clementine and Bigfoot.

Here is an odd story. My first grade teacher would pass out clay for us to play with and build something creative. I used to make a building with roads and real tiny people. I'd put the tiny people in the building and stab it repeatedly with a sharpened pencil. Then I'd open up the building and see if any of the tiny people were injured. I thought my teacher was mean when she came by and told me I was sick for doing it.

Well I was a little kid then, but the adults weren't mean for giving us nuclear drills all the time and worrying a little kid about getting hit by nuclear missiles. I was just checking out the chances of surviving.

I remember those drills. I remember when we went from hiding under our desks (in a classroom with at least one wall full of windows) to the next year, out in the halls, arms length from each other, rolled into balls, up against the walls. The teachers didn't like being asked if it was making us safer or just easier to count.

We didn't go arms length, because there were too many of us and would just get on your knees similar to a muslim laying prostrate for prayer, facing the lockers and cover our heads with our hands. Later on it became, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

Sputnik to me back then was a cute rocket ship from a gum machine, but I knew it was something the adults were concerned about. My grandparents owned a store, where people gathered and I was around the place since a baby listening to adults discuss things. My first experience with nuclear drills was less than a year after Sputnik, but it was close to a year. Later, I remember films of nuclear explosions to teach us not to look at the light. There was something about duck, tuck and cover, before evacuating away (crawl) from the windows, where you would drop to the floor by your desk. The films even had kids acting out what to do.

My point was an adult doesn't know what is going through the mind of a child. That teacher didn't know my intentions for demonstrating a missile attack with a pencil or how adults created my interest in surviving an attack. My demonstation proved to me that a tiny person had a very good chance of surviving a missile attack from a hugh missile, because rarely were the tiny people stuck with a pencil. Those happy days went up in smoke when the concept of an exposion entered my mind.

 

[Noomi]

Schools have absolutes and no room for imagination or completely harmless fun. Also no room for common sense. The kid was pretending to rescue the world from bad guys. Not allowed if you throw a pretend grenade and make a pshh sound when you do it. Teachers immediately pushed the panic button. Have schools become so narrow minded that they can no longer comprehend the nature of kids, especially young boys, who mimic super heroes or even our brave military? This crap needs to stop. Meanwhile, some older child is being bullied in high school while teachers turn their backs and it will be that child that gets pushed off the edge. No wonder they are ineffective at stopping violence. They pick on children for totally innocent things and ignore the real problems. The new rules seem designed to stifle the children's imagination and train them to think like mind-numbed idiots.

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real

A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it.

“It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says.

He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.

“I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go ‘pshhh.’”
The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary. Click here to see the Mary Blair “Absolutes”

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Oh for Gods sake, the kid was playing a damned game! How dare they suspend the poor mite for having FUN?
How about the idiots who came up with this 'rule' be suspended themselves?

 

[auditor0007]

Schools have absolutes and no room for imagination or completely harmless fun. Also no room for common sense. The kid was pretending to rescue the world from bad guys. Not allowed if you throw a pretend grenade and make a pshh sound when you do it. Teachers immediately pushed the panic button. Have schools become so narrow minded that they can no longer comprehend the nature of kids, especially young boys, who mimic super heroes or even our brave military? This crap needs to stop. Meanwhile, some older child is being bullied in high school while teachers turn their backs and it will be that child that gets pushed off the edge. No wonder they are ineffective at stopping violence. They pick on children for totally innocent things and ignore the real problems. The new rules seem designed to stifle the children's imagination and train them to think like mind-numbed idiots.

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real

A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it.

“It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says.

He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.

“I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go ‘pshhh.’”
The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary. Click here to see the Mary Blair “Absolutes”

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real | KDVR.com ? Denver News, Weather & Sports from FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado

Zero tolerance policies are idiotic and only create bigger problems most of the time. We've fucked things up so bad when it comes to raising our kids. We don't allow them to do anything on their own, because of stranger danger, and if they act out in any way, then they have behavioral issues or ADHD. For the most part, parents are to blame for this nonsense. They are so concerned about their little boy or girl and have become so overprotective that they turn these kids into whimps who can't handle anything negative in their lives.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Yanno.................it's really easy if you're smart...........................

Play like a conservative lemming while you're in school, and play Call of Duty when you go home.

 

[Dubya]

Schools have absolutes and no room for imagination or completely harmless fun. Also no room for common sense. The kid was pretending to rescue the world from bad guys. Not allowed if you throw a pretend grenade and make a pshh sound when you do it. Teachers immediately pushed the panic button. Have schools become so narrow minded that they can no longer comprehend the nature of kids, especially young boys, who mimic super heroes or even our brave military? This crap needs to stop. Meanwhile, some older child is being bullied in high school while teachers turn their backs and it will be that child that gets pushed off the edge. No wonder they are ineffective at stopping violence. They pick on children for totally innocent things and ignore the real problems. The new rules seem designed to stifle the children's imagination and train them to think like mind-numbed idiots.

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real

A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it.

“It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says.

He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.

“I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go ‘pshhh.’”
The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary. Click here to see the Mary Blair “Absolutes”

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real | KDVR.com ? Denver News, Weather & Sports from FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado

Oh for Gods sake, the kid was playing a damned game! How dare they suspend the poor mite for having FUN?
How about the idiots who came up with this 'rule' be suspended themselves?

It's a good thing she wasn't our teacher. We had this 6'1" Amazon as a science teacher in 7th grade, who broke bad on us the first day and she didn't make it much past half the year before she had a nervous breakdown. The woman couldn't sit on her chair without checking for tacks first. We must have got her about 30 times and we would laugh our asses off. We would take apart those party poppers and rig the desks with the strings to make a loud exploding pop when someone opened them in class. We rigged her desk and chair too. It would scare the piss out of that teacher. Towards the end, she would turn around to write on the blackboard and 30 spit balls would come flying, but when she turned around, everybody was looking like a perfect angel. She never could figure out who was doing it, because it was all of us. I don't know if she ever went back to teaching, but she didn't do it in that school. I wonder though, if she ever learned the lesson, when you meet a group of people for the first time, don't jump all over them and give them a hard time! She is the only teacher I've ever seen do that and her Gestapo tactics worked for about a week and then it was payback time.

 

[Againsheila]

If I had it to do over again, I would homeschool my son for his entire 1-12 education instead of just 5th-8th grade. I think anybody in their right mind wouldn't put their kids in our public schools today.

 

[Dubya]

If I had it to do over again, I would homeschool my son for his entire 1-12 education instead of just 5th-8th grade. I think anybody in their right mind wouldn't put their kids in our public schools today.

The public schools I went to were good, but I graduated before anyone even talked about homeschooling a child.

I think there is a problem with developing social skills in a homeschooled child. Grades 5th-8th are a lot of repeat, which can be boring in a child's education. A good bit depends on the school, but let's face it, the opportunity to homeschool only involves a small percentage of today's population. The best thing to do is to have parents get involved with the school. History has proven that even bad inner city schools can completely turn around, if the community becomes involved and education is seen as a means of advancement towards a better way of life.

 

[editec]

The zero tolerance of violence that is foisted on school children is absolutely nuts.

Here let me say that such liberals who think this is a good idea are 100% wrong.

Little boys are NOT little girls.

And that seems to be what far too many magical thinkers of the LEFT think they ought to become.

Grow up LIBERALS.

 

[Dubya]

The zero tolerance of violence that is foisted on school children is absolutely nuts.

Here let me say that such liberals who think this is a good idea are 100% wrong.

Little boys are NOT little girls.

And that seems to be what far too many magical thinkers of the LEFT think they ought to become.

Grow up LIBERALS.

You have an attitude and not a clue.

 

[editec]

The zero tolerance of violence that is foisted on school children is absolutely nuts.

Here let me say that such liberals who think this is a good idea are 100% wrong.

Little boys are NOT little girls.

And that seems to be what far too many magical thinkers of the LEFT think they ought to become.

Grow up LIBERALS.

You have an attitude and not a clue.

Speaking as a professional educator, I suspect I do have a clue, but thanks for weighing in on the topic.

 

[Dubya]

The zero tolerance of violence that is foisted on school children is absolutely nuts.

Here let me say that such liberals who think this is a good idea are 100% wrong.

Little boys are NOT little girls.

And that seems to be what far too many magical thinkers of the LEFT think they ought to become.

Grow up LIBERALS.

You have an attitude and not a clue.

Speaking as a professional educator, I suspect I do have a clue, but thanks for weighing in on the topic.

Being an educator has nothing to do with it. Being an idiot does.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Today's public schools are in real trouble.

Teachers who believe their morals are better and indoctrinating the kids into the Liberal mindset.

Zero Tolerance Policies that ruin the kid's imagination.

Giving pills that induce abortions without parental permission, but suspending kids for sharing an Tylenol.

 

[Againsheila]

If I had it to do over again, I would homeschool my son for his entire 1-12 education instead of just 5th-8th grade. I think anybody in their right mind wouldn't put their kids in our public schools today.

The public schools I went to were good, but I graduated before anyone even talked about homeschooling a child.

I think there is a problem with developing social skills in a homeschooled child. Grades 5th-8th are a lot of repeat, which can be boring in a child's education. A good bit depends on the school, but let's face it, the opportunity to homeschool only involves a small percentage of today's population. The best thing to do is to have parents get involved with the school. History has proven that even bad inner city schools can completely turn around, if the community becomes involved and education is seen as a means of advancement towards a better way of life.

I was involved. The PTA needs to be renamed the PA, the teachers only showed up when they were giving a speech. The schools wouldn't listen. When my youngest autistic child was in first grade I tried to get them to institute the TEACH program for autistic children. They finally did when he was in 10th grade. Much too late for my son. I became a liaison for Parents are Vital in Education to help other parents of special needs children deal with the school district. It's much worse today than it was then and it was bad then.

Home schooled children are not only better educated, they are happier, healthier and they have better social skills. IMO, the only way to fix our public education system today is to tear it down and start over.

Yeah, you come across the occasional public schools that are good, but they are a rarity today and certainly are no where to be found in our school district.

 

[Dubya]

If I had it to do over again, I would homeschool my son for his entire 1-12 education instead of just 5th-8th grade. I think anybody in their right mind wouldn't put their kids in our public schools today.

The public schools I went to were good, but I graduated before anyone even talked about homeschooling a child.

I think there is a problem with developing social skills in a homeschooled child. Grades 5th-8th are a lot of repeat, which can be boring in a child's education. A good bit depends on the school, but let's face it, the opportunity to homeschool only involves a small percentage of today's population. The best thing to do is to have parents get involved with the school. History has proven that even bad inner city schools can completely turn around, if the community becomes involved and education is seen as a means of advancement towards a better way of life.

I was involved. The PTA needs to be renamed the PA, the teachers only showed up when they were giving a speech. The schools wouldn't listen. When my youngest autistic child was in first grade I tried to get them to institute the TEACH program for autistic children. They finally did when he was in 10th grade. Much too late for my son. I became a liaison for Parents are Vital in Education to help other parents of special needs children deal with the school district. It's much worse today than it was then and it was bad then.

Home schooled children are not only better educated, they are happier, healthier and they have better social skills. IMO, the only way to fix our public education system today is to tear it down and start over.

Yeah, you come across the occasional public schools that are good, but they are a rarity today and certainly are no where to be found in our school district.

My point is not that you are involved, but that the community has to all become involved to have a good school system. That includes people who don't have a child in school, but support the schools for the benefit of the community. If a community wants education, they can find a way to get it. They can get involved in tutoring children with needs. They can use school facilities for adult ed programs during the evening. They can set up or expand school activities to keep children out of mischief. When education is emphasized as a way for upper mobility, then children are given a reason to work harder and learn. When children see their parents interested, then they become more interested.

There are times when certain teachers have a lot of extra school work, like English teachers, but many don't. What about changing the PTA to even include students attending, so they can see the interest adults are taking in their education? Have the meeting in the auditorium or gym if you have to. The key to improving schools is to become more creative in our approaches and get out of the doldrums. Accepting the status quo and looking out for your own is not the answer.