Girl and Paper Gun at School

[Light]

Mom Says School Went Too Far Punishing Child For 'Paper Gun' - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29

I'm sure some people have seen this story, but posting it for those that haven't. This is too disturbing to me.

Essentially
- girl brought gun shaped paper to school (forgotten in pocket)
- realized it was there and went to throw it away
- another kid made a big scene
- she was scolded and berated by administration being called a "murderer"
- she was searched by school officials
- all this occurred in front of other students

Obviously the parent wants to get her kid in a different school. Incidents like this also go on students permanent records. The school will not comment on it. Just because someone has an indisposition to guns, they made a choice that could haunt this girl until she graduates high school. It's ridiculous. It's incidents like these that make me fear that the nation in a whole is heading for some sort of disaster due simply to being lulled into false security.

 

[drillsgt]

Mom Says School Went Too Far Punishing Child For 'Paper Gun' - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29

I'm sure some people have seen this story, but posting it for those that haven't. This is too disturbing to me.

Essentially
- girl brought gun shaped paper to school (forgotten in pocket)
- realized it was there and went to throw it away
- another kid made a big scene
- she was scolded and berated by administration being called a "murderer"
- she was searched by school officials
- all this occurred in front of other students

Obviously the parent wants to get her kid in a different school. Incidents like this also go on students permanent records. The school will not comment on it. Just because someone has an indisposition to guns, they made a choice that could haunt this girl until she graduates high school. It's ridiculous. It's incidents like these that make me fear that the nation in a whole is heading for some sort of disaster due simply to being lulled into false security.

Who is this little idiot that made a scene? Sounds like a future democrat politician, already afraid of guns.

 

[gunworks321]

Who is this little idiot that made a scene? Sounds like a future democrat politician, already afraid of guns.

More like a brown shirt.

 

[searpinski]

During study hall (highschool), my friends and I used to draw guns in our notebooks and pass the pictures around. Nothing bad ever came of it and the teacher even laughed when he saw what we we're doing. It's truly frightening to realize that things have really changed that much. I'm 30 now, by the way. Guns were less of an "object of evil" just 12 years ago.

 

[IndyDave1776]

During study hall (highschool), my friends and I used to draw guns in our notebooks and pass the pictures around. Nothing bad ever came of it and the teacher even laughed when he saw what we we're doing. It's truly frightening to realize that things have really changed that much. I'm 30 now, by the way. Guns were less of an "object of evil" just 12 years ago.

How about going way back when it was not uncommon for kids to bring toy guns to school and play with them at recess?

 

[searpinski]

How about going way back when it was not uncommon for kids to bring toy guns to school and play with them at recess?

Woah woah woah let's not get crazy here. That sounds like terrorism to me!

Yeah very true...in fact I'm positive we used to do that as well. We had small plastic pistols that fired a spring-loaded projectile on a string. Endless fun. No one gave a damn because it didn't hurt anyone. I'm sure at least half of the class are now planning on shooting up public areas (more sarcasm...).

 

[Bunnykid68]

How about going way back when it was not uncommon for kids to bring toy guns to school and play with them at recess?

Go back a few more years and kids used to take rifles to school and even inside the school.

 

[Light]

Go back a few more years and kids used to take rifles to school and even inside the school.

A friend of my aunts talked about making a .22 for shop class. It's crazy how demonized guns are now. I seen on the news another day about how some women was sueing another woman over facebook drama. If that sort of thing can reach national news, America has a serious problem.

 

[OIIIIIO]

Took my .22 cal rifle to school. Had to do a demonstration speech for freshman speech class. Took it on the bus with me , then left it in the office till class. When my turn came up, had to walk down to the office to retrieve my firearm. Imagine the horror today, a young man walking the halls of school with his squirrel rile!

Course we walked 5 miles uphill in the snow back then too.....

 

[halfmileharry]

Maybe we should teach our children to draw pictures of the tyrannts running this country being hanged from our nations capitol?
Sure don't want them expelled from less than stellar schools that don't teach anything but socialism.

 

[EvilBlackGun]

1956, South Detroit:

Rifle Club used the Orchestra-pit area as a firing-range. .22 shorts, only, but learned MUCH discipline in that extra-curricular activity. Teacher was a WWII Gunny.

Go back a few more years and kids used to take rifles to school and even inside the school.

 

[Booya]

This is getting so out of hand it's just rediculous! We're going to start hearing these stories of school children and paper/pop tart guns everyday. It's official common sense has been completely replaced by nanny state thinking.

 

[ultra...good]

Obviously this anti gun crap is out of control. We all agree on that.

I am sitting here with the thought running through my head;
My daughter in school with a paper gun. School administration, knowing she has a paper gun, puts MY DAUGHTER in front of everyone and calls her a murderer. Then, with her on display, they search her in front of everyone, knowing they are looking for a paper gun.
Trying to hold back here a little bit, i do not like to project/predict how i would react. If someone put their hands on my daughter, knowing that all they were looking for was a paper gun, from that day forward it would be well known that putting your hands on my daughter, to search her for a paper gun, was a very, very, very bad idea.

If someone, anyone puts their hands on my daughter, they had best be a medical doctor, police officer, or her boyfriend. Not that i necessarily approve of the mentioned ones touching her, but certain things are somewhat out of my control.
Just thinking about what happened to that girl and if it were my daughter, makes my blood boil. If that were my daughter, anyone involved in that would NEVER forget my face.

 

[Excalibur]

All I can say is...she's 10...10 YEARS OLD...cut her some ****ing slack.

 

[TTravis]

The only answer for this is to sue the p*ss out of that school and use the money to pay for private school and college of her choice.

 

[Bill of Rights]

Mom Says School Went Too Far Punishing Child For 'Paper Gun' - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29

I'm sure some people have seen this story, but posting it for those that haven't. This is too disturbing to me.

Essentially
- girl brought gun shaped paper to school (forgotten in pocket)
- realized it was there and went to throw it away
- another kid made a big scene
- she was scolded and berated by administration being called a "murderer"
- she was searched by school officials
- all this occurred in front of other students

Obviously the parent wants to get her kid in a different school. Incidents like this also go on students permanent records. The school will not comment on it. Just because someone has an indisposition to guns, they made a choice that could haunt this girl until she graduates high school. It's ridiculous. It's incidents like these that make me fear that the nation in a whole is heading for some sort of disaster due simply to being lulled into false security.

Were this to have happened to my daughter,

The only answer for this is to sue the p*ss out of that school and use the money to pay for private school and college of her choice.

^^This would have happened. I would have looked upon it as a financial opportunity.

Looking back, I'm thinking that the phrasing, "Murderer? You really called her a murderer in front of her whole class? What was she going to do, give everyone in class a $^@#%$@#%$$# PAPER CUT?! I suppose if I balled the paper up, you'd say it looked like a bomb

from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, too?!" but perhaps that's just my imagination extrapolating on hindsight.

Now that brings another thought to mind... I wonder what the schools would do if some student had that picture in a class paper or on the front of a notebook?

I mean... it's representative of a destructive device, capable of inflicting grievous bodily injury or death.... but at least it's not a gun!

Aren't people still using the expression that something good is, "da bomb"? Hmmmm.....
We may be onto something here.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[joshpribble79]

I used to have a shotgun or a rifle or one or two of each in my truck and I know i wasnt the only one and nobody ever thought a thing about it and guess what we never had any incidents involving guns I'm 33

 

[88GT]

Obviously this anti gun crap is out of control. We all agree on that.

"Anti-gun crap" is only the issue. Not the problem. And unfortunately, we all don't agree on that.

 

[LegatoRedrivers]

When I was in middle school, we made paper guns all the time. In high school, there was one day that all the seniors brought squirt guns in and ran around shooting people after the final bell. No one got hurt, people had fun, it was tradition. And that wasn't all too long ago. (Although it is longer than I like to think about...)

I think the main problem is putting people who take themselves far too seriously, and exhibit obvious control issues, in charge of our children.
If you freak out like that over origami, you have absolutely no business teaching children.

 

[Excalibur]

When I was in the 5th grade in Chicago, we use nerf guns for a visual book report project. In 6th grade, we used realistic looking wooden swords for a Robin Hood play and in the 8th grade, I was not punished for bringing a Swiss Army Knife to school because they admitted that they never told me not to. This was all during the late 90s in Chicago.