Six-year-old suspended for pointing finger like a gun

stephen426, ALL my friends played variations on violent games. NONE turned into criminals, though several did go military or LE.

I repeat, many school boards, administrators, teachers, and parents are ninnies.

While there are exceptions, generally speaking involved parents make a lot more difference in a child's ultimate behavior than any zero tolerance policy ever will. And the teachers and administrators who earned my respect were certainly not policy driven automatons.
 
If this were my child, the last thing I would do is pull him out and home school him. I would make a federal case out of it, literally, and I'd make sure the NRA, the press and every congressman I could get my message out to was involved in every step. I would pay whatever it takes to depose the teacher, principal and school board members and make those transcripts public.

Asinine, overreactive behavior of school teachers directed toward small children simply to further some political agenda needs to be exposed in the same manner as a teacher's racist behavior, child abuse, rape, and other abuses of power by an adult in authority over small children.
 
Part of such behavior on the schools part is is probably an over reaction to Sandy Hook. But I believe part is also the political correctness that has been creeping into our society. Institutions react to ban everything that they believe will offend anyone. Schools are concerned that other parents will hear of the lads finger pointing and complain. Sad.
 
#1 rule I say for responsible gun owners is IMO

Show Proper Respect, respect for the power that a firearm has, especially its power to potentially end life.

If an individual cannot respect such power and the responsibility of having said power at their fingertips, they have no buisness holding a kitchen knife let alone a firearm.
 
The school did nothing wrong here. They just followed their published rules. If you want to "point" the finger for blame, point it at the parents.

Every kid comes home with a "Code of Conduct" policy manual in my school district. The parent(s) should have sat down with the kid(s) and go over the manual. So it should not be a surprise to a parent what is accepted or not.

Is this a gun issue? Nope. I fully agree with a zero tolerance policy when it comes to school violence (active or passive).
 
Zero tolerance rules are zero common sense rules to begin with. It is this trend in the US to make a rule to take the place of administrators administering. But I will agree that parents are to blame. They allow these zero tolerance rules to exist. Because most parents are absentee when it comes to what is going on in their schools.
 
Frankly, twins, my elementary and junior high school had plenty of violence, in the form of at least one or two fist fights any given week. A lot of the guys, from around fifth grade on, had BB gun wars when not at school. But my area did not have school shootings or stabbings.

I sometimes wonder if there is not some advantage in letting kids figure out early that violence hurts.

Kind of parallels how modern parents, in keeping their kids away from "harmful" things like dirt and critters, seem to have stifled their kids' immune systems. Farm kids tend to have fewer allergies...
 
MLeake has it right. Todays kids are too sheltered from the coming realities of life. We've removed playground equipment so the don't fall and scrap their little knees, we don't let them keep score in little league so their feelings don't get hurt. The finger pointing incident is another example of the same. And he's right on the farm kids comment too.
 
Pointing a finger and going "bang" does not warrant suspension. If it's against school conduct (which it shouldn't be if this took place on the playground), it warrant's a respectful warning to the child who probably didn't know any better. If the child keeps doing it in defiance, then a conversation with the child's parents is in order.

A 1st grader pointing a finger and going "POW" is in no way violent. Punching a teacher or hitting another child for spite or in anger is violence.

I don't remember my parents sitting me down at 6 years of age and reviewing a manual of rules and regulations with me. Maybe we should have children attend law school first, before sending them to pre-school, so they will understand all of the asinine rules and regulations passed by school board attorneys!:eek:
 
I had a Fraternity Brother from Atlanta ehose mother is a total clean freak, germaphobe, etc. and he is constantly getting sick.

Me, not so much, and I'm a total farm kid. Drove a tractor to school once or twice.

I've always found it interesting that schools seem to get more violent when zero tolerance policies are enacted in regards to pyhsical altercations.

I always thought that by letting boys fight it out, they learn how to deal with things better. But that's probably old fashion and violent.
 
"The parent(s) should have sat down with the kid(s) and go over the manual."

The child was 6. Good luck with having him memorize the manual.
 
I support gun control

I am a very strong advocate for better gun control. In fact, today I did something using my personal time, money and effort to ensure there is stronger controls in my neighborhood...

I went to the pistol range and practiced my grip and operation of my Kimber Super Carry Pro and my Beretta 92 FS. Nuff Said!
 
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When will we stop the insanity of arming our children with high capacity assault hands that hold as many as five fingers at the ready to be pointed anywhere an unlicensed child points on a whim?

The entire tragedy could have been avoided with sufficient regulation.
 
Don't worry, Zuki... Senators Feinstein and Schumer probably have some sort of finger confiscation plan in the works.
 
this was on the news and I thought how long I would have been suspended for playing cops and robbers and such. good grief what a bunch of loons
 
NYC Assault Knife Ban!

I noticed in Bloombergsville where they want to ban everything from soda to guns to super sized fast food, there were four murders in NYC New Years Eve. All were by Assault Knives. You know, the sharp ones, not one suppressed butter knife in the bunch. We need to stop issuing cutlery to everyone, immediately!

We don't have to worry about baseball bats though. Most of the people in the Queens section where the murders occurred are loyal Mets fans. We know they can't hit anything anyway.

(apologies to those of you who are Mets fans.)
 
So dreadful this is, I don't know how this corresponds to the both teams get a trophy crowd. I'm pretty sure it was the same people.
 
They probably would have had no problem if the child pointed his finger like a magic wand though and stolen another child's soul.
 
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