This photo was a controlled re-creation. No children were injured or suspended during the taking of this photo.
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Once again, the creeping tendrils of political correctness mixed with a common sense vacuum produce results that leave a majority of Americans in an involuntary state of slack-jawed wonder:
The parents of a 6-year-old Silver Spring boy are fighting the first-grader’s suspension from a Montgomery County public school for pointing his finger like a gun and saying “pow,” an incident school officials characterized in a disciplinary letter as a threat “to shoot a student.”
The first-grader was suspended for one day, Dec. 21. The family’s attorney filed an appeal Wednesday, asking that the incident be expunged from the boy’s school record amid concerns of long-term fallout.
The boy “had no intention to shoot anyone,” said attorney Robin Ficker, who described the child as soft-spoken, with no propensity for violence. “He’s skinny and meek. In his words, he was playing.”
The suspension came in a week when the nation was reeling from the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — and left elected leaders, educators and parents debating how best to keep schools safe.
And suspending skinny and meek six year olds for saying “pow” is Step One.
Step two?
Administrators have not written it yet, so the automatons running the government schools in Silver Springs can’t say, but I’d wager it would be based in more zero-tolerance, common sense sapping nonsense that will result in more children facing discipline for nothing more than being children.
It’s stupidity like this that reinforces my belief that homeschooling our children was one of the best decisions my wife and I ever made.
Hat Tip: The Quinton Report
