WTH? Seven year old boy in trouble over gun shaped Pop Tart

[CoilyGirl]

Student suspended for shaping Pop-Tart into gun - www.ktnv.com

This insanity has got to stop. The boy said the pop tart he was eating was supposed to be a mountain but the teacher insists she saw a gun shape and heard the boy say " bang,bang." Couldn't the boy have been imagining chiseling away at the Pop Tart to make it mountain shaped? This political correctness over gun control and perceived threatening actions by a kid's imagination has gone way overboard. My now grown sons would have been thrown in juvie long ago for their stick guns. Any thoughts here?

 

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[Dano Sverige]

Think Red james already has a thread up about this Coily.

 

[Chadeaux]

Political correctness doesn't even begin to describe the stupidity of that teacher.

Thanks for the info Dano, so please give me a link because I think I missed it.

 

[Dano Sverige]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/e...d-teacher-says-he-shaped-pastry-into-gun.html

 

[Dano Sverige]

Gun related, so should be in this forum really, but i think this is ONE subject (ironic) we CAN agree on. Ridiculous stuff going down over there in schools! (teaching wise)

 

[dieselram94]

Yup Dano, I have to agree with you on this one!

 

[Chadeaux]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/e...d-teacher-says-he-shaped-pastry-into-gun.html

Thank you sir.

Gun related, so should be in this forum really, but i think this is ONE subject (ironic) we CAN agree on. Ridiculous stuff going down over there in schools! (teaching wise)

Finally, a common ground.

It's that kind of silliness that led us to home school our daughter. The school she was supposed to attend did nothing resembling school work in the two days I visited. No reading (yes, we were expected to read before entering the second grade), no math (yes, we were expected to be able to add and subtract before entering the second grade). Many children become problems when school doesn't challenge them. My daughter was reading to me by the time she was four. School would have stopped her desire to learn.

Reading comprehension for her was College level before she reached the sixth grade. Tested in the top 1% nationally, top 10% in math and science. Not bad for the kid of a couple of backwoods folk from Louisiana living in Arkansas.

Are the same silly things happening in Sweden?

 

[CoilyGirl]

Thank you sir.

Finally, a common ground.

It's that kind of silliness that led us to home school our daughter. The school she was supposed to attend did nothing resembling school work in the two days I visited. No reading (yes, we were expected to read before entering the second grade), no math (yes, we were expected to be able to add and subtract before entering the second grade). Many children become problems when school doesn't challenge them. My daughter was reading to me by the time she was four. School would have stopped her desire to learn.

Reading comprehension for her was College level before she reached the sixth grade. Tested in the top 1% nationally, top 10% in math and science. Not bad for the kid of a couple of backwoods folk from Louisiana living in Arkansas.

Are the same silly things happening in Sweden?

I missed Red James' thread as well but glad you too are on board Dano with the ludicrousness of our teaching system,not one size shoe fits all and the education system seems to have lost all common sense in dealing with what they deem " behavior problems" with just normal seven year old boys being seven year old boys. Chadeaux, I think a lot of people are homeschooling now because teachers today are more focused on so called social problems that have been in the news so often that they forget about actual education and learning.

 

[onfire]

wait till a kid writes a book report on The day of the gun. Or the history of guns. ooops do they teach creative writing in school anymore? Whats going to happen when a girl says nice guns on that boy (Biceps)

 

[austin]

And you really want to give teachers guns? I would come out of retirement for a S&W 500 Magnum(short barrel), but no way in hell I would want to work next to some of these idiot young overzealous educators today. I worked with too many who were crazier than ME! Glad you posted this again CoilyGirl.

 

[packerbacker]

I've mentioned this before but it's pertenent (sp?) to this post as well. My granddaughter got a Remmington 12 gauge for her 16th birthday. She also got a Remmington cap and t-shirt. She was told she can't wear any of the clothing to the school because it promotes violence. Both articles of clothing just said "Remmington", didn't even have a pic of a gun on them. Funny thing is, the school mascot is a sword-carrying Spartan. What the....?

 

[dieselram94]

I've mentioned this before but it's pertenent (sp?) to this post as well. My granddaughter got a Remmington 12 gauge for her 16th birthday. She also got a Remmington cap and t-shirt. She was told she can't wear any of the clothing to the school because it promotes violence. Both articles of clothing just said "Remmington", didn't even have a pic of a gun on them. Funny thing is, the school mascot is a sword-carrying Spartan. What the....?

Only in a liberals view does this scenario make sense....

 

[CoilyGirl]

I've mentioned this before but it's pertenent (sp?) to this post as well. My granddaughter got a Remmington 12 gauge for her 16th birthday. She also got a Remmington cap and t-shirt. She was told she can't wear any of the clothing to the school because it promotes violence. Both articles of clothing just said "Remmington", didn't even have a pic of a gun on them. Funny thing is, the school mascot is a sword-carrying Spartan. What the....?

Exactfrigginlutely!

 

[packerbacker]

Whatever should all of the girls named Lucy, Lisa and Linda do with their necklaces??

 

[packerbacker]

Looks like an assault necklace to me! SCARY STUFF!

 

[dieselram94]

LOL! however I could see some liberal educator claiming this!

 

[packerbacker]

yep....me too....and odds are they would be a Berkley grad....just a wild guess

 

[CoilyGirl]

Haha packer backer !

 

[onfire]

I've mentioned this before but it's pertenent (sp?) to this post as well. My granddaughter got a Remmington 12 gauge for her 16th birthday. She also got a Remmington cap and t-shirt. She was told she can't wear any of the clothing to the school because it promotes violence. Both articles of clothing just said "Remmington", didn't even have a pic of a gun on them. Funny thing is, the school mascot is a sword-carrying Spartan. What the....?

What about a Remington bronze? Or a t shirt with Shakespeare name on it and his quote "Kill all the lawyers" ?

 

[packerbacker]

Kids should just say the shape is NOT a scary gun, it's an "L" and it stands for Liberal. The seas will again be calm.