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| Ohio Student Points Finger Like Gun, Is Suspended |
| 2014-03-05 |
| [HOSTED.AP.ORG] A central Ohio principal says she suspended a 10-year-old boy from school for three days for pretending his finger was a gun and pointing it at another student's head. The boy's father says it's the adults who are acting childish for suspending the boy from Devonshire Alternative Elementary School in Columbus last week. The fifth-grader said he was "just playing around." But district front man Jeff Warner told The Columbus Dispatch that Devonshire Principal Patricia Price has warned students about pretend gun play numerous times this year, and everyone should know the rules by now. He said warnings have been included in three newsletters sent home with kids. Warner says the boy put his finger to the side of the other student's head and pretended to shoot "kind of execution style." "The kids were told, `If you don't stop doing this type of stuff, there would be consequences,'" Warner said. "It's just been escalating." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 Hell I killed more Japs than the 5th Amphibious Corpse. (ammo was really light then) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-03-05 18:32 |
| #13 Me and 3-4 of my brothers used to run around the house with long pointy sticks playing 'Guns' - shooting each other! It was great fun! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-03-05 16:33 |
| #12 Brainwashing. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-03-05 16:19 |
| #11 Cheeze and Rice, back in the 50's early 60's we played all kinds of stuff at recess from cowboys to cops and robbers, army, and Civil War. The educational system is warped. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-03-05 14:56 |
| #10 Wonderful to live in a free country. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-05 14:06 |
| #9 "Alternative Elementary School"? In my experience, the kid is there because he's been a problem in the non-Alternative school. I suspect that the teacher sees this as a expression of the culture he's being raised in (outside the school) and doesn't see any way to head it off, except this. Big mistake. At 10, this boy is still somewhat malleable, and a session with him and the friend who got "shot" with a trained psychologist familiar with this kind of dysfunctional culture would do a lot more good. I'm as sensitive to the demonizing of gun- culture as anyone, but I'm also aware that gang-bangers are made, not born, and that the mistake the school made was not doing something about what may be a desensitizing incident, but what they did. |
| Posted by: bud 2014-03-05 12:19 |
| #8 Zero Tolerance Is Ruining The Joy Of Childhood |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-03-05 10:44 |
| #7 Fire the Principal. Everybody cheers. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-03-05 10:43 |
| #6 Ohio Student Points out state school is a waste of time. FIXED! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-03-05 09:59 |
| #5 Hey Jeff Warner, here is the real thing... sh8tting bricks yet ? |
| Posted by: Thath McCoy8120 2014-03-05 09:53 |
| #4 This is happening frequently enough that we can no longer assume over-zealousness or innocent mistake. Posted by Iblis There are no |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-05 09:38 |
| #3 This is happening frequently enough that we can no longer assume over-zealousness or innocent mistake. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-03-05 09:32 |
| #2 Would the boy have done better if he had used his middle finger for pointing? The left side of the country (ideologically speaking) is so brainwashed by the anti-gunner's agenda to disarm the country. They will only be happy when they have everyone subjugated under the boot of tyranny. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-03-05 09:00 |
| #1 Ohio is so permissive, so Sharia-lite. Their Devon cousins would have insisted upon a public amputation. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-05 07:02 |