posted on February 11, 2001 11:15:57 PM new
I remember seeing this on the News when it first happened and I thought it was unbelievable, talk about stupid stupid stupid. The school principle is a fool, yes I agree that you should talk to the child, you should explain why it is not nice to do things like that, but to suspend him is utterly ridiculous.
This is a little child not some monster. Explain don't blame and suspend.
posted on February 12, 2001 09:10:35 AM new
Seeing something like this reminds me just how much things have changed since I was a kid. The boys on the block were always playing cowboys and indians and going bang-bang with their toy pistols. No one believed for a second they were going to really shoot someone. I doubt anybody gave it a second thought. It's really sad.
posted on February 12, 2001 09:49:27 AM new
That is DIS..gusting...This incident happened in a school, right?....A school filled with teachers...the young child did something wrong, but instead of teaching him why what he did was wrong, they send him home (shaking head now!).....Granted, parents have an obligation to teach their children, but we send our children to these schools everyday & is it really too much to ask that they learn more than reading, writing & arithmetic??...That perhaps those who are in the education field actually might take the initiative to use their resources (much better resources than the average parent) to better education these children??
One would think that in a school district where violence has already claimed lives SOMEONE would have created an anti-violence lesson to be taught to each & every child!....
posted on February 12, 2001 09:36:56 PM new
I can still remeber when I was in eigth grade, and our speech assignment was to do a "Demonstration"...anything we wanted.
I was allowed to bring a 12 guage shotgun into a classroom, and demonstrate how to disassemble, clean and reassemble the gun.
No one thought thing ONE about it...but then again, back then we didn't have kids walking into schools killing other kids.
As far as a "chicken finger"..I am not really sure this is considered a "deadly weapon"..unless it is purchased from a "kitchen" operating on the back of a truck..then ya gotta watch out!
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on February 13, 2001 04:09:12 AM new
How utterly sad.
What have we come to when our society is paranoid to the point where childhood innocence is gone and a chicken finger is a potential weapon.
We should be ashamed of ourselves to have ever let this sorry state of affairs ever happen to us.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
posted on February 13, 2001 05:57:18 AM new
December3 - When you said, how much things have changed since I was a kid. The boys on the block were always playing cowboys and indians and going bang-bang with their toy pistols. No one believed for a second they were going to really shoot someone. I doubt anybody gave it a second thought. It's really sad I thought, boy is that true. I can remember being one of the cowgirls who did the same thing.
Those were different times. We didn't have the violence in our schools, the disrespect for teachers/adults/authority that we do in our society now.
Problem here is, as I see it, there was a shooting at this school. People are still living with that memory. So, IMO the possible over-reaction certainly is understandable and might just make a big impression on all the students there. I believe this action, by the school, makes a statement that this issue isn't funny and won't be tolerated, even in a joking form.
