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Read more here‘Teacher Threatened Police Arrest And My Son’s Mental Sanity Over A Photo of Him With A Pellet Gun’ – Parent
This sorry story began when Phillips’ son used money he had earned to buy himself an Airsoft bb gun, the joy of suburban boys throughout America. Proud of his purchase, Phillips’ son took a digital photo of his bb gun, and then brought his camera to school so he could show a friend. James DeLarme, a social studies teacher, walked by, saw the camera, and “snatched” it right out of the young man’s hands.
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Bob I think it's the later.Blazer Bob wrote: ......................"Understanding this sort of thinking, it is easy to realize that such people think nothing of applying a zero tolerance policy prohibiting actual firearms to not only toys bearing a slight resemblance to firearms, but to depictions of firearms and even imaginary weapons. Thus have elementary-aged children been punished for pointing fingers at each other and fighting imaginary heroic battles for mankind. Thus is childhood warped and wrenched from children.
Some of these bizarre incidents are the direct result of human confusion or incompetence. School systems have multiple levels of management that theoretically can avoid abuses in student discipline. Take the case of the five year-old girl who dared think of blowing bubbles on her friend and herself. Even if her teacher could not tell the difference between a Hello Kitty bubble gun — a toy the girl left at home — and a real weapon, and even if she could not tell the difference between five year olds playing and a threat of serious bodily harm or death, what’s the principal’s excuse? What’s the excuse of the assistant superintendent and the superintendent and the members of the school board?
Fortunately, in most of these incidents, thunderous public scorn and the threats of attorneys were sufficient to undo suspensions and other punishments that should have never taken place. However, unless and until the voters of those — and every — school district take affirmative action to see that no student is punished for behaving like an entirely normal child, and that progressive indoctrination of our youngest and most impressionable children is brought to an abrupt and final halt, generations of Americans may grow up believing that so much as thinking about the “weapons” generations have harmlessly used in play since before the foundation of the republic is a crime against the state.
On the other hand, perhaps that’s exactly what the state wants.
Related: Today’s Hysterical Gun Freakout: Teacher Invades Kid’s Privacy, Threatens Him Over Digital Photo of Airsoft Gun [7]
Mike McDaniel is a former police officer, detective, and SWAT operator, and is now a high school English teacher. He blogs here.
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[1] White Marsh Elementary School: http://www.wbal.com/article/96927/2/tem ... -In-Recess
[2] Mount Carmel Area School District: https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress. ... e-idiotic/
[3] D. Newlin Fell School: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/26/ph ... dent-over/
[4] Sumter County School District: http://www.wltx.com/news/article/219116 ... -to-School
[5] Poston Butte High School: [url=http://pjmedia.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;]http://pjmedia.com[/url] http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/02/high- ... -of-a-gun/
[6] Mary Blair Elementary School: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/05/co ... p=HPBucket
[7] Today’s Hysterical Gun Freakout: Teacher Invades Kid’s Privacy, Threatens Him Over Digital Photo of Airsoft Gun: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/03/04/to ... rsoft-gun/
http://pjmedia.com/blog/tiny-terrorists ... epage=true
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