You can't make this stuff up

They walk among us. I know the answer. Make children illegal. Then the proplem will be solved in a generation.

http://kdvr.com/2013/02/04/7-year-old-p ... -for-real/


"LOVELAND, Colo. — A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play."

Insert facepalm here. This escalation of zero tolerance hurts my head.

Guess what I used to do in high school? Play role playing games where we blew up the school. (It was empty, of course, just a wishful thinking of how to take a couple weeks off.)

Alex is like a lot of 2nd graders, perpetual motion. His mom says the little boy doesn’t understand why pretending to be a soldier was wrong. “I think that when a child is trying to save the world, I don’t think he should be punished for it.”

Just another part of the plan to demonize all things having to do with weapons, heroes, the military, individuality, and all non conforming thoughts or actions. I’m sure the school would rather he be dancing around the maypole with his peers.

Grady wrote:

Alex is like a lot of 2nd graders, perpetual motion. His mom says the little boy doesn’t understand why pretending to be a soldier was wrong. “I think that when a child is trying to save the world, I don’t think he should be punished for it.”

Just another part of the plan to demonize all things having to do with weapons, heroes, the military, individuality, and all non conforming thoughts or actions. I’m sure the school would rather he be dancing around the maypole with his peers.

It's working.


http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/02/04/ ... by-safety/

........."Over the summer, according to the Manchester, Connnecticut Patch, a local mom was charged with “risk of injury to a minor and failure to appear after police say she allowed her seven-year and 11-year old children to walk down to Spruce Street to buy pizza unsupervised.” This was a walk of half a mile.

If this were an isolated incident of police over-zealousness, well, that’s all it would be. Unfortunately, at my perch I hear about incidents like this all the time—the authorities determining that they know better than a child’s own parents what their kids are capable of handling. That’s why just a few months ago a Michigan mom had to come fetch her children—12 and 15—from the police station, after she’d expected them to walk home from the library. The library staff decided it was too cold to make the kids do this (the kids had walked there without coats). Instead, staffers took them to the police station. The police called the mom and told her they’d be filing a report. For what? The crime of believing her perfectly capable kids could walk home in the cold.

The message to parents? The government is better at raising your kids than you are. The message to kids? You are weak little babies. The government will swaddle you in safety."...............

FredHayek wrote: Insert facepalm here. This escalation of zero tolerance hurts my head.

Guess what I used to do in high school? Play role playing games where we blew up the school. (It was empty, of course, just a wishful thinking of how to take a couple weeks off.)

And how many school shootings took place way back then?

Like it or not, we live in a different world than you grew up in. Just like you lived in a different world than your grandparents grew up in. Just like your grandchildren will grow up in a different world than you did.

Actually if you look at the numbers, gun violence peaked in the 1960's and early 70's and a lot of it was schools, but since it was minority v. minority, the press didn't give it a lot of play.

Source please.

Soulshiner wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Insert facepalm here. This escalation of zero tolerance hurts my head.

Guess what I used to do in high school? Play role playing games where we blew up the school. (It was empty, of course, just a wishful thinking of how to take a couple weeks off.)

And how many school shootings took place way back then?

Like it or not, we live in a different world than you grew up in. Just like you lived in a different world than your grandparents grew up in. Just like your grandchildren will grow up in a different world than you did.

While you statement is quite true, are you OK with this seven year old kid being suspended for playing "super hero"?

Mary Scott wrote:

Soulshiner wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Insert facepalm here. This escalation of zero tolerance hurts my head.

Guess what I used to do in high school? Play role playing games where we blew up the school. (It was empty, of course, just a wishful thinking of how to take a couple weeks off.)

And how many school shootings took place way back then?

Like it or not, we live in a different world than you grew up in. Just like you lived in a different world than your grandparents grew up in. Just like your grandchildren will grow up in a different world than you did.

While you statement is quite true, are you OK with this seven year old kid being suspended for playing "super hero"?

Well, we don't know if the parent signed a copy of the Mary Blair Absolutes. That says that after the 3rd absolute broken, the student will be formally suspended. The story doesn't tell us whether this was the actual 3rd one or if they did it for a first offense. The absolutes are laid out very clearly and he broke one by his own admission. If the parents had a problem with this, why didn't one say something BEFORE this situation? Schools are usually very good at notifying parents of their policies. If they thought it was wrong, the time to do something about it was before their precious little child broke the rule and they didn't like it. He's going to have to learn at some point that he will have to play by the rules.

I mourn for the loss of the innocence that it seems most of us adults got to grow up with. Society has become so litigious that everyone has to error hard on the side of caution to avoid those people that sue over things so easily like the married couple who weren't even in the Aurora theater that the shootings took place in. "A married couple, who were not in the actual theater, but who witnessed the chaos outside the complex indicated they may sue for emotional distress and mental anguish because police pulled guns on them as they were leaving the scene." - http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=310925 I think this is complete BS. But that mind frame makes anyone who is dealing with people's children more apt to cover their asses than let something slide. We love it when the teacher or principal gives their lives to protect their students, but screw them if they try to enforce the posted rules that a child breaks.

People are very sensitive about their children, I understand that. But throwing a fit to the news because their kid was punished for breaking a rule is going too far. I think they are teaching their children bad lessons. If I broke a rule, my parents didn't go crying about it. They disciplined me and made me understand that rules are rules and to suck it up and take my medicine and I thank them for that.

But without the entire story, I will reserve my judgement on the situation and also recognize that it has nothing to do with me and anyone else here on this board.

Soulshiner very funny! Good parody. Lol.