First a six year old boy is suspended for making a finger gun and saying ‘pow’ and now a five year old girl faces the same fate after she “made a terroristic threat”. FIVE. In Kindergarten!
A rural Pennsylvania girl has been suspended from kindergarten after she told another girl that she planned to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that bombards targets with soapy bubbles.
Events unfolded last week when the five-year-old girl was waiting at a bus stop with other students, reports WCAU in Philadelphia. Details are unclear, but the girl said something like “I’m going to shoot you and I will shoot myself,” according to Robin Ficker, an attorney for the girl’s family.
The girl reportedly did not have the Hello Kitty gun or any other weapon with her at the time.
School officials in the Mount Carmel Area School District in Northumberland County later found out about the incident and sprang into action. They interrogated the little girl for approximately three hours — without her parents present – according to the NBC affiliate.
The bubble-blustering little girl was originally suspended for 10 days for issuing a “terroristic threat,” according to Fox News. The charge was lowered to “threatening to harm another student” after a meeting between the girl’s mother and school officials, and the suspension was reduced to two days.
The kindergartener also had to submit to psychological testing before school officials allowed her to return to school.
“The psychologist said that she posed no danger to others,” Ficker told the Daily Item, a local newspaper.
We’re talking about a HELLO KITTY BUBBLE GUN. A toy fit for a five year old.
Okay, this is ridiculous and outrageous. This is freedom, squelched. But I finally get it. This is what it’s all about, not being overly careful so another Sandy Hook doesn’t happen. They start as early as possible and demonize guns. Not just guns, but any action related to them, such as pointing a finger at someone and saying ‘BANG!’, so that by the time the kids are old enough to vote, they’ll happily vote away the right to even have the evil guns.
We had freedom as children, once upon a time. We carried knives -yes, even to school- in our pockets. They are tools, after all. We played Cowboys and Indians without worrying if it offended native Americans or if we’d be suspended for ‘terrorist activities’. Cops and Robbers required plenty of fake bullets, too. Every kid knew the names Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger and we play killed them, over and over, without scarring any of our little psyches.
We got all our social interactions and aggression out on the school yard. The girls chased the boys, the boys tried to look up our skirts and we all gathered by the fence and drank from the honeysuckle. Nobody told us how to be children and our lives were golden because we were free.
Then we’d file back into the school, tired, sweaty and ready to be quiet and learn. Those who cut up were spanked and if they continued to disrupt class they were sent to a different school, somewhere I suspect had padded rooms.
I can’t help crying for what we had and what they don’t. We’re raising a nation of fascists who will take this country down even if outside forces cannot.
a significant number of the boys at my high school had rifles in the rear windows of their pick-em-up trucks sitting in the parking lot – on school property – every day
no one ever shot anyone….
Ours too! Of course, that was rural Texas. November 1st was like a national holiday; everyone knew the male population would be out hunting whitetail deer…
Good times. An we didn’t even know how good we had it…
we all carried knives and sometimes I had a 5 inch hunting knife in class – I just remembered I was given 3 days off for lighting a fire cracker during class – today that would be total expulsion and 10 years behind bars, if I was lucky – personally I think this is all bull shit – that city has some of the most violent people in it, I do not want to ever go there without packing -
That’s hilarious!!!
You earned that three days off…!
We shot bottle rockets off in the library. And launched water balloons into the canteen at lunchtime.
Good times!
When kids could be kids!
It’s more than the Educrats trying to make guns evil. They are trying to make any kind of violence unacceptable. The only way liberalism, or socialism can work is through bullying tactics. They want to make children to grow up to fear their own thoughts. Look what happens when a bullied child strikes back. The socialists are still playing the long game and most of us aren’t even on the field.
The entire thing is much more insidious than previously imagined.
I think (part of) the problem is basic lack of respect for others and a sense of entitlement. Kids don’t seem to be taught self-restraint or the art of losing gracefully. Everybody gets a prize so nobody feels bad. Then when they’re older and out in the “real” world where everybody doesn’t play by their rules, they can’t cope. They are stunted in their emotional development and react like bratty two year olds, except now they have weapons. If they’d been taught that others were at least as important as themselves, I don’t think there would be so much hate and acting out. (Oh, and by kids I’m referring to 40ish and younger – this has been indoctrinated into their little minds for a long time) Sorry for the rant.
You’re right; that’s a huge part of it. Don’t apologize for being right! You said it perfectly!
Here’s some fucking terrorist threats:
The only thing I’d have hauled the little girl in for would be saying “I’ll shoot you and then I’ll shoot myself”. Even innocently, that just sounds wrong. I wouldn’t have suspended her, but there would have been counseling involved.
You know, without being there, all this is probably super innocent. However, being the parent of a kid who was threatened (when he was in 3rd grade, of all things!) at school, and knowing how out of touch a lot of parents are (especially in this area), I almost prefer the school react a bit more on the side of caution. RIght now, we have a case of a teen who is missing following a video of her being beaten at school posted on fb (and being aired on the news repeatedly). THe girl was bullied relentlessly and the parents asked the school for help…all to no avail. Now their daughter is missing. Shit like this happens far too frequently for my comfort. But again, it comes down to parenting and schools being a place of learning instead of a place we send our kids to be babysat.
I’m rambling. This makes little sense. I know it. But I really feel like we’ve somehow climbed into the handbasket we wove at all those self-esteem classes we had to attend in the 80s and 90s and have put ourselves in a bigger mess than anyone ever thought possible.
Ugh. I’m going to crawl under a rock again for another couple weeks. I’ll keep watching FRIENDS and HOUSE HUNTERS and other nonsense that doesn’t make my head all ‘splodey
Well, when you come stay at the poorfarm for two-three hours a day of housework and some help on the cooking, you can watch old westerns with me and NCIS with Linda Lou. We have a spare TV in that bedroom but I dunno if it still works.
It shouldn’t take more than a couple months to make our little hovel habitable.
Who could turn down an offer like that? All the work you can do and a little TV?
Joanie, the girl’s quote sounded a little off to me as well, but then I remembered what it was like to be a kid. We said some really weird stuff just to see how it sounded. Usually our Mom would call us on it or the other kids would start teasing.
Five years old.
The quote is only off if said with the inflection of an adult who watches the news etc
Two little girls giggling about a Hello Kitty bubble gun and giggling I’ll shoot you then I’ll shoot me – is all bubble game and perfectly innocent.
Not saying that is how it was – but having been a little girl – having raised 3 little girls and having herds of little girls pass through the house… Having raised a little boy with super soakers and nerf guns…
Still sounds like massive idiotic adult over reaction to me. Adults need to let kids be kids sometimes – but 5 year old little girls with Hello Kitty bubble guns and third graders making threats are not the same thing.
All depends on the context.
For instance – speaking of idiotic adult over reaction – many moons ago when I worked in a day care center in a different part of this state, my “class” was a group of 12-24 month olds. Little ones spend their first year learning to walk/run and their second year learning to talk. Two year old speech can be pretty darned cute and entertaining – I had one adorable little boy who LOVED trucks – only the word didn’t quite come out truck – sort of started with an f and he dropped the r…. cute – and he loved to stand at the fence and announce each truck that drove by. He’d get really excited if two went by together – Truck (sort of)!
Nother Truck (sort of, he kind of had a problem with N-s too….)!
One of the other workers heard him one day – and let his parents have it about the language he must be exposed to at home! Didn’t talk to me about it at all – just went after the kid’s parents. Erg – they were neighbor/friends of mine too….
Just a cute little 2 year old excited about trucks
Is the bus stop now physically school property? Otherwise, this happened OFF school grounds and is not their jurisdiction. Oh, wait, was it other parents there guarding their darlings who grew fearful? And when kids get after each other in the neighborhood (as kids will do!), we can now suspend them in school for it also?
Stupid, stupid shit.
Yep, yep and yep!!
This comes from the same mindset as those people who want to ban guns. They want to ban thoughts in our kids’ heads that they deem socially unacceptable or non-PC.
You ban thoughts, you ban action. Yes, they want total control. Are we going to let them have it?
Just a thought, how many people are now killing themselves because of the bullshit they are being taught? More than our guns are killing I’ll bet
Suicide-by-leftist-education. Sounds about right!