School suspends 6-year-old boy who pointed finger, said 'pow'

[green73]

A Montgomery County [Maryland] elementary school student was suspended for a pretend gunshot a week after Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The 6-year-old, who attends Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, made a gun with his hands, pointed it at another student and said "pow," according to Robin Ficker, the boy's attorney. He was given a one-day suspension, with a conference on the matter planned for Jan. 2, the day students return to school from winter break.

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/montc...le/2517080?utm_campaign=obinsite#.UOQ-0_X6mIl

 

[tod evans]

Refresh my memory please...

Why are public lynchings illegal?

 

[CaptUSA]

Ban fingers.

 

[jclay2]

Ban fingers.

I think a more effective way would be to ducktape shut the mouth of every child. How can you opperate a finger gun without ammo? This should work as long as silencers have not been introduced into the imaginations of these children.

 

[Dr.3D]

When I was a kid, I would put a Band-aid on the end of my finger so it didn't make any noise when I fired it.

 

[cgainey]

My 6 year old son is in 1st grade and has autism (more on the aspergers side) they gave him 1 day of in school suspension and 1 day out of school suspension for saying to another kid "Stop or I will cut your head off". The context was another kid was jumping in the puddles and my son wanted him to stop.

 

[Lucille]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/129982.html

...Public schools are run by feminists, especially in wealthy areas. Why would any parents submit their little boy to these boy-hating indoctrination academies?

 

[thoughtomator]

It would be ironic and not at all surprising if the kid learned that behavior from one of the celebrities now doing anti-gun propaganda.

 

[Confederate]

Ban fingers.

Ban children, that way they can't grow up to be serial killers. Problem solved.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Ban fingers.

But his hands are not over the 10-finger limit; they're not assault hands.

 

[Czolgosz]

When I was a kid, I would put a Band-aid on the end of my finger so it didn't make any noise when I fired it.

lol'd

 

[Confederate]

When I was a kid, I would put a Band-aid on the end of my finger so it didn't make any noise when I fired it.

Homemade suppressor! I hope you paid the $200 tax stamp to the ATF.

 

[Dr.3D]

lol'd

Now I have to wonder, if the kid had put an orange Band-aid on the end of his finger, would that count as being a toy pistol?

 

[Czolgosz]

Now I have to wonder, if the kid had put an orange Band-aid on the end of his finger, would that count as being a toy pistol?

Oh stop.

 

[madengr]

My 6 year old son is in 1st grade and has autism (more on the aspergers side) they gave him 1 day of in school suspension and 1 day out of school suspension for saying to another kid "Stop or I will cut your head off". The context was another kid was jumping in the puddles and my son wanted him to stop.

My 4 year old son was pretending to cut mine, and his 7 year old sister's, head off last night. Of course this is his favorite book (it was mine as a kid too). Grendel gets his arm torn off, Grendel's mom gets her head cut off, Medusa gets her head cut off, the Chimera get's arrows down it's throat, Green Knight gets his head cut off, you get the picture. They don't publish kids' books like these any more. Of course he got a "William Tell cross bow" and "big giant sword" for Christmas too.

 

[Athan]

Refresh my memory please...

Why are public lynchings illegal?

See link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington

 

[Confederate]

My 4 year old son was pretending to cut mine, and his 7 year old sister's, head off last night. Of course this is his favorite book (it was mine as a kid too). Grendel gets his arm torn off, Grendel's mom gets her head cut off, Medusa gets her head cut off, the Chimera get's arrows down it's throat, Green Knight gets his head cut off, you get the picture. They don't publish kids' books like these any more. Of course he got a "William Tell cross bow" and "big giant sword" for Christmas too.

Quick! Someone call CPS for him raising his son as a boy!!!

Don't you know, boys these days are supposed to be playing with Easy Bake Ovens and ponies.

 

[Dr.3D]

Quick! Someone call CPS for him raising his son as a boy!!!

Don't you know, boys these days are supposed to be playing with Easy Bake Ovens and My Little Pony.ponies.

Fixed it for you.

 

[Confederate]

If I ever were to catch my future son with my little ponies, I'd smack him so hard he'd have flashbacks every time he sees a horse for the rest of his life.

 

[Spikender]

^ The idiocy levels in this thread just shot through the roof.

All the band-aid silencer jokes are funny, but the story is both sad and nothing new. Is there anything that can be done about this? As a parent I mean. If my son is sent home one day because some punk teacher said he and his friends were pointing their fingers at each other and going "bang bang pow", what the hell should my reaction be? I mean, I'd be tempted to go and smack the teacher across the head, but that's certainly not something I should do. So what would be a good course of action? Lay down and take it and let my son think that fingers are dangerous weapons?