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Title: Kindergartner Suspended for Bringing a Bubble “Gun” to School — Violated No “Weapon” Policy
Source: Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/05 ... violated-no-weapon-policy.html
Published: May 19, 2016
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2016-05-20 10:06:14 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 430
Comments: 4

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By Claire Bernish

“They’re saying it was a fake weapon and that I need to come get her,” said the unidentified Colorado mother of a five-year-old girl who was suspended after bringing a clear, plastic, princess-themed bubble gun to school because she likes bubbles. “I appreciate that they’re trying to keep our kids safe, I really do. But there needs to be some common sense.”

A Brighton, Colorado, School District 27J spokesman refused interview requests, but told an ABC affiliate by email that the kindergartner’s suspension was “consistent with our district policy.”

That policy targets fake ‘guns’ which could be reasonably mistaken for actual weapons — but the district almost inarguably crossed the line into the absurd with a plastic, princess bubble gun.

Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, executive director of the ACLU of Colorado cited by the ABC affiliate, called such incidents a ‘national embarrassment’ — citing another five-year-old’s suspension in 2013 for a ‘Hello Kitty’ gun, another student for shaping his breakfast pastry like a gun, and a third where a student landed a suspension over pointing their finger like a gun.

It would appear overprotection has turned to outright paranoia, if not complete abandonment of reason. Could any reasonable threat be assumed from a plastic gun emblazoned with a princess theme — which shoots only soapy water?

On Tuesday, the school attempted to abate criticism with a statement about the girl’s suspension:

While we hear and understand the parents of this student being concerned about this discipline in light of the student’s age and type of item, this suspension is consistent with our district policy as well as how Southeast has handled similar situations throughout this school year. This has involved similar situations where students have brought items such as Nerf guns to school and also received one-day suspensions. The bringing of weapons, real or facsimile, to our schools by students can not only create a potential safety concern but also cause a distraction for our students in the learning process. Our schools, particularly Southeast because of past instances with students bringing fake weapons to school, make a point of asking parents to be partners in making sure students are not bringing these items to school. this includes asking parents to check backpacks.

Calling a plastic bubble gun even a facsimile of a weapon defies common sense, logic, reason, and the limits of intelligence. Our culture has, perhaps — and in no small part due to the war against the concept of terrorism — has coddled itself right into a laughable preposterousness.

In 1954, Indiana Conservation Officer Rod Rankin reacted to a growing number of children killed in careless firearm accidents by implementing a permission-based gun safety course for school students. The argument he employed still rings true now, particularly in light of such absurd fear of guns — education, in combination with a healthy respect for weapons, will reduce fascination and increase awareness and safety for any child who encounters a gun.

Though his plan certainly garnered critics, many students learned the safe and responsible use and storage of firearms, particularly, “never point a gun at anybody, even in play, and always check immediately to see if the gun is loaded,” as Life Magazine described that year.

But Colorado’s suspension of a kindergartner for an object about which it would take an enormous leap of logic to describe as a fake weapon counters anything to do with safety — or weapons.

Just because the district boasts the student’s suspension is consistent with others for similar incidents — a Nerf gun? — doesn’t make the policy any less a foray into the absurd.

In 2013, Huffington Post listed six highly suspect suspensions for so-called fake weapons brought to school by young children.

A seven-year-old Maryland second-grader was suspended for nibbling a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun. Another in the same state for a bright red cap gun — which, though the suspension was lifted, inexcusably remains on the student’s record. That student’s mother told the Washington Post her child was interrogated for two hours over the incident — which understandably scared him to the point he wet himself.

In Pennsylvania, a five-year-old girl caught a suspension for a bright pink-and-yellow Hello Kitty bubble gun. An eight-year-old in Florida was suspended — for playing cops and robbers. He pointed his finger at another student during the game, saying ‘pow pow.’

Perhaps most dystopically telling of all, two Virginia middle school students were suspended for a full year for playing with airsoft guns — at one of the student’s homes. A supposedly concerned neighbor called the cops — despite the fact she claimed she knew the guns were fake, which she told the dispatcher. What excuse, then, could she possibly have used to call police in that incident?

This is what happens when a cowed culture allows the State to decide what’s best — as if we, as a people, somehow possibly couldn’t parse that out on our own. It’s ludicrous. It’s nonsensical. And it needs to be reined in before a single other kindergarten’s record is permanently tarnished because of cultural paranoia surrounding guns.

Education and rationality, not confiscation and wholly unjustified fear, is key to gun policy — and to generally helping the U.S. get a grip

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#1. To: Deckard (#0) (Edited)

“I appreciate that they’re trying to keep our kids safe, I really do. But there needs to be some common sense.”

Yes, there needs to be some common sense ... on the part of the parent.

She knew the rules. If she did not, then she is even more stupid.

Or, should everyone say "fuck all the rules" and do anything they want to.

To this, Paultards will say: Yes.

Gatlin  posted on  2016-05-20   10:19:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Deckard (#0)

"But there needs to be some common sense.”

There used to be. The principal used to make that common sense decision. That's why he gets the 6-figure salary.

But that wasn't good enough for the parents. Why should their little Johnny get suspended when Tommy did something similar and he only got a reprimand? So Johnny's parents are going to sue. Everybody. And tie it up in court for years.

So, school districts across the country said "Fuck that!" and came up with zero-tolerance policies. Can't sue us for that!

misterwhite  posted on  2016-05-20   10:35:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Gatlin (#1)

Yes, there needs to be some common sense ... on the part of the parent.

She knew the rules. If she did not, then she is even more stupid.

You are way off base.

From the article :

This is what happens when a cowed culture allows the State to decide what’s best — as if we, as a people, somehow possibly couldn’t parse that out on our own.

Or, should everyone say "fuck all the rules" and do anything they want to.

Good grief - you are so blinded by your authority fetish that you can't even see how absurd these "rules" are.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2016-05-20   11:09:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Gatlin (#1)

Or, should everyone say "fuck all the rules" and do anything they want to.

That is EXACTLY where things go when people in authority do not exercise common sense.

And that is exactly where things SHOULD go when the authorities cease to be reasonable and prudent, and start acting like Prussians.

People believe in and respect the rule of law when the laws are sensible. When the laws become insane, SOME people step and fetch like a slave minstrel show, but most people just start to lose their respect for the rule of the law and do what pragmatically makes sense.

The martinets usually respond to this by twisting the penalties up out of sight. That works to some extent, through fear. But in time it makes criminals much more violent (as in ancient Greece, if you're going to get the death penalty anyway, for stealing a mouthful of bread, you may as well murder the city guards too), and it makes normal taxpayers caught up in the excess start to really hate their government and see it as arbitrary and oppressive.

In the end, people rebel and heads roll. It's happened every single time that the rules become oppressive, and therefore people break them, and the authorities respond by massively upping the penalties. Happened in France. Happened in England. Happened in Russia. Happened in Germany. Happened in Italy. Happened in China. Happened in Mexico, and Brazil, and South Africa. Happened in America too, lest we forget.

In the long run, when governments act stupidly, people stop obeying them. When governments then react violently, to enforce their will, the people kill their governments and the officials.

You cannot govern a mass of people stupidly and keep them in line with increasingly violent rules. All of human history shows that the end of that game is the complete erosion of law and, ultimately, revolution and death to the former enforcers of the rules. Oh, there may be NEW rules afterwards, but the rulemakers and enforcers of the new rules are new. When there's a revolt, the cops of the old regime end up with their throats slit. The Revolutionary government of France had its own tax collectors, but in all of France not one single royal tax collector survived the Revolution. Nobles did, the King's generals mostly did. But the kings tax cops were ALL killed by the people - every last one of them was hunted down and murdered. There is no "second act" for the enforcers of bad laws closest to the people.

Joachim Peiper machine gunned American prisoners but went on to have a career in Europe after the war. But the low-ranked camp guards are still being rooted out of nursing homes and ripped out of society and tormented with trials and jails at the very end of their lives.

"The law is hard but it's the law" actually ends up eviscerating the law itself.

The only way the rule of law can survive is if the laws are reasonable, not excessively harsh, and are administered with common sense.

When the laws are stupid and enforced harshly and stupidly, rational people abandon the rule of law. And when the state becomes violent to impose its will, rational people in every country throughout all of human history have simply started murdering the cops and the judges.

In the end, stupidity doesn't get to rule just because it's "the law". The law is not important enough to people for them to keep supporting it if it becomes ridiculous.

Already Americans more and more only outwardly obey some laws, and do not think that obedience to law as a principle makes sense. That's because the law has become more and more asinine, and the people applying it have become more and more irrational and ridiculous.

That does not bode well for people who like the existing order. It's a pretty good sign that that order is decaying and will be swept away.

Vicomte13  posted on  2016-05-20   11:41:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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