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"So rescuing the world is grounds for suspension now?"





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 02.06.2013 3:15am
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Indiana Jerico
Sinfully Delicious v2
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7-year old suspended for throwing imaginary grenade at recess.

You could've had the best grenadier in your country's history, America. Now, we'll never know. :(


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 02.06.2013 10:42am


Coolsetzer
Formerly Furysetzer



Holy ad f__k, that site is horrible. But yeah, the school officials totally overreacted. If kids aren't able to express themselves, then they feel repressed. Then they get anti social. Then one day you get a little unibomber on your hands.




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 02.06.2013 11:42am


The Hulk
Good Boy



As with most of these "what is the world coming to?" stories, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a lot more background to this story.




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 02.06.2013 2:31pm


Amer
pew pew pew



As the husband of a teacher who gets to hear the stories...every...single...day...I'm guessing this is probably just the straw that broke the camel's back instead of the only rule breaking this boy has ever done. I've never heard of some angel kid going straight to suspended over anything as innocent as this. 




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 05.07.2013 8:06am


Confusus
Former Russian Despot



When I was in elementary school in the 80's, we brought a bunch of gear from the Army Surplus store to school. We had canteens, helmets, binoculars, walkie-talkies. And toy guns too. We played war. We "shot" each other (unless there was snow on the ground, in which case we were using live ammo). There were "grenades," "missiles," etc. There were bases with pineneedle walls, empty spots for doors. We would take captives. Sometimes we would "capture" the girls and they would play house/make our fort cooler.

I think about stuff like that, and then I think about the fact that the 80's are as long ago now as the 50's were when I was a kid in the 80's, and I feel kind of old.




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 05.07.2013 3:32pm


CaButler
Winter Knight of the Unseelie Court



I'm apparently told that my nephew's schools discourage "shooting a gun with your hand", even though it's pretty harmless.  The fact is that the kid happens to like Star Wars and pretends he has a blaster.

I'll say this much.  If they tried to suspend my nephew over something like this and nothing else, then my lawyer (who is also my sister) is going to have words with the school.




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 05.07.2013 6:24pm


kirbenvost
Give Life Back To Music



Confusus said:

When I was in elementary school in the 80's, we brought a bunch of gear from the Army Surplus store to school. We had canteens, helmets, binoculars, walkie-talkies. And toy guns too. We played war. We "shot" each other (unless there was snow on the ground, in which case we were using live ammo). There were "grenades," "missiles," etc. There were bases with pineneedle walls, empty spots for doors. We would take captives. Sometimes we would "capture" the girls and they would play house/make our fort cooler.

I think about stuff like that, and then I think about the fact that the 80's are as long ago now as the 50's were when I was a kid in the 80's, and I feel kind of old.

Yup, my child hood was similar, maybe less gear but we had tons of toy guys.  Can't believe how long ago that was.  Crazy thing is, there's such a  stigma about toy guns nowadays but everyone still wants their real ones.  The only good I can see is that maybe they're raising a generation of people who don't feel the need to own them.




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