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Boy suspended for shaping food into gun

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That is insane, and the more we keep mystifying guns, and making them taboo, the more problems we're going to have.
 
Whatever happened to the good old days when boys just made boobies out of their taters?
 
This country is losing it's phucking mind.
 

The funny thing is I didn't understand the reference at the time.

Anyway, the dangerous weapon looked something like this.

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I guess common sense isn't so common anymore. Beyond just the obvious idiocy, why is there no concern over making the kid feel like he's some sort of bad seed for basically doing nothing wrong? Where's the "think of the children" contingent now?
 
7-year-old boy, Josh Welch, suspended for shaping his food into a gun - Wilmington Civil Rights | Examiner.com

A 7-year-old boy chewed his pastry into the shape of a gun and was suspended for it.

I have been looking around to see if there was more to the story. Like did he then point it another kid and pretend to shoot them or something. But nope. It just looks like another example of idiot school administrators.

You have got to be kidding me? The whimpafication of America continues.
 
I also interpreting this as the school openly trying to teach children to HATE and FEAR both police and people in the military - who use guns supposedly for good.
 
-Year-Old Joshua was suspended this morning from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. Joshua says he was eating a pastry during snack time and trying to shape it into a mountain, the teacher said it looked like a gun and took him to the principal's office. Joshua's parents were called, he has been suspended for two days.

Joshua's father says it's ridiculous since no one was threatened or harmed by the pastry. A letter will be going home to all students of Park Elementary School this afternoon. School officials declined to comment due to privacy issues.
 
Whatever happened to the good old days when boys just made boobies out of their taters?

Boys in that school are probably required to make boobies out of taters as required sex education - and testicles/penis to not sexual orientation discriminate. And of course then how to put a condom on it.
 
Well then we should ban Maryland because it too looks like a gun.
 
Beyond just the obvious idiocy, why is there no concern over making the kid feel like he's some sort of bad seed for basically doing nothing wrong? Where's the "think of the children" contingent now?

They're thinking of the children. Thinking of demonizing guns to the extent that children fear and are against them. You know, gettin' those votes locked in early.
 
I remember I used to draw guns in elementary school... I would usually invent Alien guns from the future and draw them. I would probably get in BIG trouble if it were now.
Oh and I also remember I made a mini Bow and arrow out of a paper clip and a bit of string that I torn off my shirt. I shot little arrows of rolled up paper... I would have been expelled for good.
oh and don't get me started on what we called hornets... a rubber band and a bent folded up piece of paper and launched at each other with high velocity... they could hurt pretty bad.
 
-Year-Old Joshua was suspended this morning from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. Joshua says he was eating a pastry during snack time and trying to shape it into a mountain, the teacher said it looked like a gun and took him to the principal's office. Joshua's parents were called, he has been suspended for two days.

Joshua's father says it's ridiculous since no one was threatened or harmed by the pastry. A letter will be going home to all students of Park Elementary School this afternoon. School officials declined to comment due to privacy issues.

Even if he intentionally bit it into a perfect scaled down version of an AK 47 (with sprinkles), this would still be idiotic. I remember going to the principals office a handful of times. It sucks. I really do feel sorry for the kid.
 
This is an example (it appears) of parents NOT FOLLOWING THRU. Getting something on TV of itself doesn't nothing without following thru. The parents should WIDELY circulate they and everyone else who thinks this is wrong to be at the next public school board meeting - along with a petition and copy already provided to the school board calling for candidates to run against every school board member that does not vote to:

1. Transfer or fire the principal after a suspension.
2. Give the dangerously over-reactive teacher termination notice.
3. Remove the suspension from the boy's record
4. Issue a written apology to the boy and his parents.

Otherwise, nothing will change and that child-abuse will continue at that school. It was CHILD ABUSE to suspend that boy.
 
The funny thing is I didn't understand the reference at the time.

I didn't know the reference either, yet I thought it was quite funny. 'Pop Tart gun', that's funny all by itself or any way ya cut it.
 
That's just silly.

Something tells me this had little to do with a pop-tart gun and more to do with a spider in the teacher's desk and she knew who put it there but couldn't prove it.
 
Another student was suspended for drinking a big gulp.

Later, another student was suspended for using "too much salt".
 
Schools need to make up their ****ing minds

AOL.com Video - Florida Mom Calls Gun Picture in Homework Assignment 'Unacceptable'

You know - regarding this linked-to story/video (where the image of a gun was presented with the idea that kids would fill in the missing letter to complete the related word. . . the mother says something that made me wonder (in the end) - she says that "his father was killed by a gun" . . . you know - it is normal and encouraged that when kids experience a traumatic event that they benefit from drawing it out and writing about it. It helps them cope and work through emotions. Like when we had an accident many years ago - the kids drew pictures of it a lot.

So in our current society where a firearm can likely be tied to the reason why a child's world was turned upside-down - they're now sending the message that 'most of the time expressing your negative feelings is ok - as long as it doesn't involve a gun'

Which is BS . . . if the kid lost a parent and they're drawing pictures of it they need to just let that child work through it without punishing them for it. It's not the children's fault that guns are in our society and are a prevalent part of many people's lives.

Or what about firearms being used to hunt - is that not a good representation? Putting food on one's table is a part of life. Yet these overreactions are teaching students that it's bad - no matter what is done with it - or how it affects them emotionally.
 
Those kids were also suspended.

We weren't but my school didn't go around looking for sacrificial lambs for zero tolerance policies :)
 
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