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March 8, 2013 By News Staff
Answer: He chewed his strawberry pop tart into the shape of a gun
In Anne Arundel County last week, a 7-year-old boy was suspended for two days for chewing his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun and saying, “Bang, bang” — pointing the breakfast treat at a classmate, according to an assistant principal at Park Elementary School. The child, however, says he pointed it at the ceiling, The Washington Post reported.
“In my eyes, it’s irrelevant; I don’t care who he pointed it at,” said the boy's father. “It was harmless. It was a danish.”
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In the case of the young boy chewing his breakfast treat into the shape of a gun, I think that suspension is way to harsh of a punishment, rather than positive corrective action. Since he understands the difference between righ and wrong, a simple explanation and "Time Out" would have been appropriate. What kind of examples are we setting as adults. The punishment definitely does not fit the crime.
Indoctrination at its finest. Teach them young to fear guns....that guns are bad, and in a generation this newly - programmed constituency will happily allow the Constitution to have another chunk ripped out and used as toilet paper. How much of this will be tolerated before there will be no means of opposition? Think about it.
Really? Suspending the 7-year old over a Pop-Tart? How ludicrious is this? Are we that bankrupt emotionally as a nation that we cannot distinguish between acceptable disciplinarian action and over the top disciplinarian action? The school officials that made this decision should be immediately furloughed and be mandated to write a 10,000 word essay on acceptable disciplanrian actions.
Really? A 7-year old suspended? have these so called educators and school officials not read the Constitution of the United States? A person under the age of 14 years of age is deemed not capable of understanding right from wrong. Really - a Pop-Tart? Where has common sense gone. Kirk - you are right, a 'time out' would have sufficed. Not a suspension. Now they have set this kid up to be a drop out because of this 'blemish' on his academic record.
Really? Should there really be any punishment over this? Have we all forgotten what it was like to be a 7 year old boy, we make guns out of everything. Stick, blocks, play-dough, you name it I've made a gun out of it and so did all my friends. Then we play cops and robbers and shot each other. It's what kids do.
Another wonderful example of catering to the liberal "kill them with kindness" crowd. To paraphrase "Father of 2", we're boys, that's what we do! I grew up with guns and was hunting from the time I was 8, I own guns now and I always will. I have a healthy respect for them and have always known the difference between the "shooting" that happens in the movies and what happens in real life. I have also taught those values to my children and we've never had a problem. My guns have never done anything I didn't tell them to do. BUT back on topic -- Suspension is WAY out of line, just tell the kid not to do that again and move on.
I'm glad there are other forms of human life out there that find this ludacris. Must we be condemned to feel like outcasts because we "taught" our children to use their imagination and make their toys with what's around them? Forgive me for not giving my children unlimited access to Playstations and Game Boy's that take the imagination out of playing cops and robbers as "father of 2" put it. We kick their tails out the back door and say "go play". Make use of what's around you and have fun. Granted, little Johnny should have known better than to pick up a gun in today's liberal school system. IMO, "Wait until you get home" should have been the principals answer, not suspension. We wonder why our society is full of incompetent fools dependent upon handouts. We take the fun out of everything!