Maryland school suspends six-year-old boy

Originally Posted by Shadera

We did way worse than that. We ate dirt, rode bigwheels down the hillside with no padding, and stayed out until the streetlights came on. Parents today would probably get lightheaded at the thought of letting their kids do any of that.

My youngest sister is one of those over-protective hovering parents.
Heck, we would shoot at each other with bb guns ... bbs kinda hurt when they hit ya.

How about swimming in a creek And getting out with leeches on you?

I am appalled at the school systems that are punishing kids for being kids.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...-told-him?lite

This is one where a Kid's Sign Language names looks like his fingers are a gun.

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I played in the creek, caught Tadpoles and minnows brought them home and tossed them in the Swimming Pool (Stock tank, but I was small enough it was a good "pool xD") and turned it into an above ground pond. I ran off into Cactus and climbed trees... had to get the fire department to get me down once. I'd bring stray cats and dogs home, stayed out till my mom rang a cattle bell she set up. I could here it anywhere. I'd go arrowhead hunting with my dad, tried to catch a cottonmouth at a hospital party.

Gosh that was the good ol' days, I remember getting a whippin' from my dad from his belt or a fly swatter, still somehow never seemed to learn my lesson though LOL.

Another deadly 6 year old caught and expelled from school.

Called police over plastic clear toy gun.

and they deny themselves to being sheep . . . . . . . .

Originally Posted by TextileHerps

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...-told-him?lite

This is one where a Kid's Sign Language names looks like his fingers are a gun.
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I remember this reading this. The hysterics is simply maddening.

You got to be kidding me.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/01/2...-out-of-legos/
5-Year-Old Threatened With Suspension For Making Gun Out Of Legos

HYANNIS (CBS) – A mother says her 5-year-old boy was threatened with suspension after he made a gun out of Legos during an after school program.

Sheila Cruz received a written warning recently about her son from the after school staff at the Hyannis West Elementary School because he had been using toys inappropriately.

While Cruz thought her son Joseph Cardosa was just being a kid, she said school administrators called his actions a threat.

“I was given a book and they told me he’s going to be suspended if he does it again and to sign here,” Cruz told WBZ NewsRadio 1030 Tuesday. “I just couldn’t believe it. He’s 5-years-old.”

Joseph’s parents called the school principal but were given the same warning

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I'm glad I don't drink out of the public water systems and have my own well. Obviously there is something in the water lately.

and yet another
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region...picture-of-gun

A 10-year-old Alexandria boy was arrested after police said he brought a toy handgun to school on Tuesday, a day after he showed it to others on a school bus.

Alexandria cops bust 10-year-old for bringing toy gun to school


The boy, a fifth-grader at Douglas MacArthur Elementary School whose name is not being released, was charged as a juvenile with brandishing a weapon, police said.

He was also suspended from school, and Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Morton Sherman said further action is being considered, including expulsion.

On Monday, the boy showed the plastic gun to at least one other student during a bus ride home from the school. The 10-year-old did not point it at anyone or threaten to shoot it, but he neglected to mention that the weapon was fake, said Alexandria police spokeswoman Ashley Hildebrandt.

School officials said they learned about the incident Monday evening and immediately started investigating. Alexandria police spoke to school administrators Tuesday morning before the boy got to school.

When the boy arrived, authorities found the toy in his backpack. He was taken into custody, transported to a juvenile detention center for booking and then released to his parents, Hildebrandt said.

"The safety of our students is always our first concern," Sherman said. "We appreciate the quick response and action by our police."

The toy resembled a semi-automatic handgun, said police spokesman Jody Donaldson. It was silver and had a black handle. It also had a orange tip that went into the barrel, showing that no ammunition was coming out of it.

In light of current events involving schools and guns, Donaldson said police "do have a heightened sensitivity to any rumor or concern" about a student possibly having a firearm.

"Any time we get a call like this, we take it very seriously until we can determine the extent of the weapon -- if it's real or not -- and what the student intends to do with it," Donaldson said.

But some people said police and school administrators overreacted.

"A toy gun is no danger to anyone," said Liane Rozzell, executive director of Families & Allies of Virginia's Youth. "A 10-year-old is not a fully formed adult by any means. And that kind of situation should be dealt with outside the courts and the justice system."

Robin Ficker, a Bethesda attorney who represented a 6-year-old Montgomery County student who was suspended last month for pointing his finger and saying "pow," said the schools have become terror-stricken.

"That just shows a certain hysteria with the school administration," Ficker said Tuesday. "What is the point? To say that you don't like guns, you don't like the Second Amendment?"

A letter was sent home to parents of all MacArthur students about the incident.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/police...rticle/2520632