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Comment #3210

2013-12-11T21:30:02Z

Colorado has upped the ante: a school in Canon City suspended a first-grader for sexual harassment.

Key quote: "Now my son is asking questions… what is sex, Mommy?"

Comment #3209

2013-05-11T18:43:03Z

I am so sick of this.

"A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made."

No, no, no. A pencil is a weapon when—as happened in our local high school—it is used to stab another student. "Gun noises" are not a weapon. What are these people thinking? (Insert obvious answer here: they're not.) Why are people who reason in such a way being allowed to teach school?

And why are second graders being allowed to watch drive-by shootings on the nightly news? Let's instead suspend the fear-mongering, graphic coverage of terrifying events that are extremely unlikely ever to impact these children—except, of course, by making the adults around them insane. Kudos to the boy's parents.

Comment #3208

2013-05-08T20:55:57Z

Well, Virginia has joined its northern neighbor: a school in Suffolk suspended two boys for making gun noises while pointing pencils.

Key quote: "Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community. Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day."

Comment #3207

2013-03-07T00:56:43Z

I read that story, too, Margaret. Given what I read about the general situation at that school, I'd have been afraid to cooperate with the authorities, too.

Comment #3206

2013-03-06T22:53:05Z

Don't think this one was a joke. It was reported on Channel 9 news also. Very sad indeed!

Comment #3205

2013-03-06T22:03:13Z

I've seen a photo going around on facebook that shows a picture of the state of Maryland and the text: Ban Maryland - it looks like a gun.

I guess the school's motto must be "Boys will not be boys."

Comment #3204

2013-03-06T21:33:49Z

There is also now the story about the kid that disarmed another kid who had a loaded gun on the school bus and was rewarded by receiving a suspension from school. (The justification for the suspension was that he wouldn't cooperate with the police investigation)