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Elementary School Beginning Toy Gun Turn-In Program

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Elementary School Beginning Toy Gun Turn-In Program

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.
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Let me guess, the book choices in the exchange were "My Two Daddies", "Global Warming and Me", "and "A child's introduction to Saul Alinsky."

In California, this isn't even considered shamless.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Gotta indoctrinate those kids early! ;)
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We are being gradually conditioned to be an essentially passive society. That's gonna suck when the day comes that it gets people needlessly killed.
 
My kids were never interested in toy guns - of any type. Though my husband did make them cut out AK 47's from wood (which they don't play with because they just don't care that much) Because if it propels it - they have to retrieve it . . . I'm not spending my money on a load of nerf darts. LOL

They love shooting the bow and arrow . . . and playing with toy swords. Yet I don't see them wanting to arrow someone to death - or hack each other with real meat cleavers anytime soon.
 
Wonder if Lego guns count? I could almost guarantee a bike for a kid if they did!
 
What does this have to do with schools? Schools can't even prepare people for careers, and now it's involved gun control?


I grew up with toy guns galore. Replica 1911s on my side, Uzis, M16s, 38 special cap gun, automatic water gun that has a "clip" similar to a real gun, bandoliers, army surplus paraphernalia. And somehow I still am very cautious around real guns to the point where only recently have I allowed one to be in my home, and under strict conditions (locked safe and nothing ready to fire, my choice).

My colleague's parents refused to allow him toy guns, very specifically that was their goal. So he picked up sticks and went "Bang bang bang", they were aghast. Of course, he grew up to collect guns and hobby shoot all the time. Go figure.

Liberals bash conservatives for catholic school indoctrination and the later backlash, can they see they do the same thing on different issues?
 
Erod said:
Elementary School Beginning Toy Gun Turn-In Program



Let me guess, the book choices in the exchange were "My Two Daddies", "Global Warming and Me", "and "A child's introduction to Saul Alinsky."

In California, this isn't even considered shamless.
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I would remove my children from such a school. I have never said that before, but that's exactly what I would do. These school administrators are full of ****. Can't pointie finger a gun, can't eat a freakin' Poptart in the shape of a gun. These people are shameless; and the only way to show children what's right is to act against them.

And we'd better get busy.
 
In my day they encouraged reading by giving us Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas after we read for a while.

This is a stupid idea. The only real thing this does is make a social and political statement.
 
Fiddytree said:
In my day they encouraged reading by giving us Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas after we read for a while.

This is a stupid idea. The only real thing this does is make a social and political statement.
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I'm assuming that you mean the OP gun thing is stupid - and not the Pizza Hut thing.

People push against food as incentive because they like to think that encouraging eating is why everyone's fat.

And handing out candy encourages poor dental habits and tooth decay.

And so on - and so forth.

Really - I need to end birthdays, no more christmases, definitely no more St Patrick's Day - and put my kids in a box.
 
The toy gun exchange, yes.
 
REally what needs to be done is this:

I invent a time machine.

Go back in time.

Don't have kids.

Because no matter what i do they're going to turn into fat mass murdering drug addicts.

And that's just not what I want.
 
These children won't be able to read or write but at least they'll know the dangers of biting a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun.
 
I have no problem with it as long as it is voluntary. That said, kids are going to be hounding their parents to buy toy guns so they can do this so they are just creating demand for the item they want to get rid of in the same way dentists buying candy has really upped the trick or treat numbers in my hood.
 
We have met the enemy and it is some of us.

What an stupid idea, toy gun exchange.
 
lizzie said:
We are being gradually conditioned to be an essentially passive society. That's gonna suck when the day comes that it gets people needlessly killed.
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I dont think this is neceasarily the case as a whole. I think the Democratic Party is strengthening their hold on their base, and as a consequence that segment of society is becoming more passive. I think non-Democrats will be less eaaily deceived.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
It doesn't make me feel one way or the other. Much ado about nothing.
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Well, its imprinting kids, by any means possible, that guns are the devil. That they are to be not only feared, but condemned.

It is far from "nothing". It is very long-term "something", and if you had a clue, you would know this.
 
Erod said:
Elementary School Beginning Toy Gun Turn-In Program



Let me guess, the book choices in the exchange were "My Two Daddies", "Global Warming and Me", "and "A child's introduction to Saul Alinsky."

In California, this isn't even considered shamless.
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Toy guns? Wow! That's really getting carried away. I really don't understand what they think it will accomplish when the kids' parents can just buy them more cheap toy guns. You have nerf guns, squirt guns, all kinds of different toy guns. So the kids get a bike and toy guns too!
 
Eighty Deuce said:
Well, its imprinting kids, by any means possible, that guns are the devil. That they are to be not only feared, but condemned.

It is far from "nothing". It is very long-term "something", and if you had a clue, you would know this.
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There is that. There is also the notion that certain toys are no longer acceptable, even though they very much are. It's an extreme political and social statement they have no business getting involved with.
 
Eighty Deuce said:
Well, its imprinting kids, by any means possible, that guns are the devil. That they are to be not only feared, but condemned.

It is far from "nothing". It is very long-term "something", and if you had a clue, you would know this.
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I just don't think it's going to be successful at all. I think the kids are going to be like "cool, a new bike" and then get more toy guns on their birthdays or whatever.
 
Eighty Deuce said:
Well, its imprinting kids, by any means possible, that guns are the devil. That they are to be not only feared, but condemned.

It is far from "nothing". It is very long-term "something", and if you had a clue, you would know this.
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You're getting awfully worked up over something that has nothing to do with you. Whatever happened to states' rights and all that. If a CA school wants to have a gun exchange program, let them do it. Not everybody has to feel about guns the way you do.
 
All I can say is, This is the Evil of Liberalism, destroying what we should stand for.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
You're getting awfully worked up over something that has nothing to do with you. Whatever happened to states' rights and all that. If a CA school wants to have a gun exchange program, let them do it. Not everybody has to feel about guns the way you do.
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But aren't they really just having a toy exchange? Or are the elementary schools kid toting in 9mm's and .38 specials for a chance to win a bike?
 
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