Post by Graveyardbride on Oct 14, 2013 13:02:25 GMT -5
Schools are turning Americans into pansies
In a recent incident of anti-gun hysteria in a school setting, officials at an elementary school in small-town Michigan impounded a third-grade boy’s batch of 30 homemade birthday cupcakes because they were adorned with green plastic figurines representing World War II soldiers. The school principal branded the military-themed cupcakes “insensitive” in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, reports Fox News Radio.
“It disgusted me,” Casey Fountain, the boy’s father, told Fox News. “It’s vile they lump true American heroes with psychopathic killers.”
Fountain explained that his wife had made the cupcakes. His son, Hunter, helped decorate them. The following morning, Fountain’s wife took the taboo treats to the school’s front office, where the secretary reportedly remarked favorably on their appearance.
“About 15 minutes later the school called my wife and told her they couldn’t serve the cupcakes because of the soldiers had guns,” Fountain told Fox News. “My wife told them to remove the soldiers and serve the cupcakes anyway – and I believe she may have used more colorful language. We’re just taking political correctness too far.”
In a statement to local media, Schall Elementary School principal Susan Wright Susan Wright doubled down on her school’s bold stand against little green men that represent American soldiers.
“These are toys that were commonplace in the past,” Wright said. “However, some parents prohibit all guns as toys. In light of that difference, the school offered to replace the soldiers with another item and the soldiers were returned home with the student. Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions. In the climate of recent events in schools we walk a delicate balance in teaching non-violence in our buildings and trying to ensure a safe, peaceful atmosphere.”
This incident is the latest in a growing line of apparent overreactions by school officials to things students have brought to school – or talked about bringing to school, or eaten at school – that are not anything like real guns.
At Genoa-Kingston Middle School in Genoa, Illinois, a teacher threatened an 8th-grader with suspension if he did not remove his t-shirt emblazoned with the interlocking rifles insignia of the United States Marine Corps. (In a related incident, a junior high teacher in Ellisville, Mississippi, ordered a child to “hide” his Marine Corps tee-shirt or get suspended.)
At Park Elementary School in Baltimore, a student was suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped a strawberry, prebaked toaster pastry into something resembling a gun.
However the senseless suspension wasn’t enough for school officials who sent the following letter to parents of other children:
“During breakfast this morning, one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class. While no physical threats were made and no one was harmed, the student had to be removed from the classroom ....
“If your children express that they are troubled by today’s incident, please talk with them and help them share their feelings. Our school counselor is available to meet with any students who have the need to do so next week.”
In fact, children should have been “troubled” by the incident. The realization they are nothing more than powerless pawns in a vast, incomprehensible game run by a world gone mad and that they could be targeted and suspended for something so asinine should have scared them into wetting their pants!
At Poston Butte High School in Arizona, a high school freshman was suspended for setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his school-issued computer.
At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, school officials reportedly yelled at a student and then searched her in front of her class after she was found with a paper gun her grandfather made for her.
In rural Pennsylvania, a girl in kindergarten was suspended for making a “terroristic threat” after she told another girl she planned to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that bombards targets with soapy bubbles.
At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Maryland, a six-year-old boy was suspended for making the universal kid sign for a gun, pointing at another student and saying “Pow!” This boy’s suspension was later lifted and his name cleared.
Sources: PhishBook, Hit&Run, The Blaze and BattleRattle.
In a recent incident of anti-gun hysteria in a school setting, officials at an elementary school in small-town Michigan impounded a third-grade boy’s batch of 30 homemade birthday cupcakes because they were adorned with green plastic figurines representing World War II soldiers. The school principal branded the military-themed cupcakes “insensitive” in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, reports Fox News Radio.
“It disgusted me,” Casey Fountain, the boy’s father, told Fox News. “It’s vile they lump true American heroes with psychopathic killers.”
Fountain explained that his wife had made the cupcakes. His son, Hunter, helped decorate them. The following morning, Fountain’s wife took the taboo treats to the school’s front office, where the secretary reportedly remarked favorably on their appearance.
“About 15 minutes later the school called my wife and told her they couldn’t serve the cupcakes because of the soldiers had guns,” Fountain told Fox News. “My wife told them to remove the soldiers and serve the cupcakes anyway – and I believe she may have used more colorful language. We’re just taking political correctness too far.”
In a statement to local media, Schall Elementary School principal Susan Wright Susan Wright doubled down on her school’s bold stand against little green men that represent American soldiers.
“These are toys that were commonplace in the past,” Wright said. “However, some parents prohibit all guns as toys. In light of that difference, the school offered to replace the soldiers with another item and the soldiers were returned home with the student. Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions. In the climate of recent events in schools we walk a delicate balance in teaching non-violence in our buildings and trying to ensure a safe, peaceful atmosphere.”
This incident is the latest in a growing line of apparent overreactions by school officials to things students have brought to school – or talked about bringing to school, or eaten at school – that are not anything like real guns.
At Genoa-Kingston Middle School in Genoa, Illinois, a teacher threatened an 8th-grader with suspension if he did not remove his t-shirt emblazoned with the interlocking rifles insignia of the United States Marine Corps. (In a related incident, a junior high teacher in Ellisville, Mississippi, ordered a child to “hide” his Marine Corps tee-shirt or get suspended.)
At Park Elementary School in Baltimore, a student was suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped a strawberry, prebaked toaster pastry into something resembling a gun.
However the senseless suspension wasn’t enough for school officials who sent the following letter to parents of other children:
“During breakfast this morning, one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class. While no physical threats were made and no one was harmed, the student had to be removed from the classroom ....
“If your children express that they are troubled by today’s incident, please talk with them and help them share their feelings. Our school counselor is available to meet with any students who have the need to do so next week.”
In fact, children should have been “troubled” by the incident. The realization they are nothing more than powerless pawns in a vast, incomprehensible game run by a world gone mad and that they could be targeted and suspended for something so asinine should have scared them into wetting their pants!
At Poston Butte High School in Arizona, a high school freshman was suspended for setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his school-issued computer.
At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, school officials reportedly yelled at a student and then searched her in front of her class after she was found with a paper gun her grandfather made for her.
In rural Pennsylvania, a girl in kindergarten was suspended for making a “terroristic threat” after she told another girl she planned to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that bombards targets with soapy bubbles.
At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Maryland, a six-year-old boy was suspended for making the universal kid sign for a gun, pointing at another student and saying “Pow!” This boy’s suspension was later lifted and his name cleared.
Sources: PhishBook, Hit&Run, The Blaze and BattleRattle.
