Child Brings 2″ Lego Gun to School — Lack of Common Sense Happens Next

Swoon!
Credit where it is due. You wrote correctly ‘Lego’ and not the incorrect ‘Legos’. Keep up the good work.

American school system in all it’s glory

We go overseas to kill people with our guns, to force them to be more like us (wonder how that will work out).

Guns are then seen buy kids as instruments of power.

Schools see kids “acting” (literally, as in theater) powerful, and the administration feels threatened.

The children appear more mature than the adults in this case.

What was it i’m always posting about…?: -the first/primary function of “academia” is to divorce you from your common sense. This is the first thing any adult who has not suffered the brainwashing of college notices about anyone with a wall of diplomas.

-ZERO common sense.

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Now, -the most serious and telling line in the article above. (from the kid):

They made me sign a statement.

-Excuse me?

this is the very same action told in hundreds of POW war stories (and now of course, “terror” stories.) Of course American told stories almost always depicts this as typical ploy of Communist/Socialist/Marxist regimes. They make the captured soldier sign or make a [video] statement under duress. -or both. -only know they start the conditioning in grade school.

Talk about history repeating itself. (!)

You wanted change..your getting it.

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This is what happens when you let the morons from the bottom of the class run things.

We need to take back the schools from the edu-crats.

More and more of this as women obtain higher positions in school admin

Let’s see
– kid threatened with suspension for a 2-inch two gun
– kid suspended for a plastic knife in the lunch room
– kid suspended for taking an aspirin for a headache
– kid threatened with suspension for bringing a science project to school that the principle thought was a bomb
– and the list goes on and on and on…..

Can someone explain to me exactly what is being taught in the schools today (other than there is no God) and why I should send my kids there?

Well, I certainly don’t carry toy guns….

Imagine this scenario…. the principle used “common sense” and just told the kid to put away the toy, no formal report was issued. The following week the same kid brings a real gun to school and kills someone. Then everyone would blame the principal for not following protocol by overlooking the original infraction.

She’s in a “screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t” position.

Good thing he didn’t commit a serious crime like drawing on a desk.

NYC schools send you straight to jail for that sort of behavior.

“It was only a toy gun”… famous last words before a cop shoots or tasers someone because they had a weapon that was meticulously crafted to be an EXACT copy of the real thing. #18 has it right… zero tolerance, because who knows what may happen next week.

Also – my kids’ school has a zero tolerance policy for TOYS! If it isn’t needed for school, it is left at home. The article above doesn’t specifically say that he was caught playing with a toy gun… it could simply have been the TOY itself.

Also – maybe was already warned to NOT BRING Lego to school because he was caught playing with it in class before this… stop criticizing the administration immediately – you will NEVER know what led up to this incident and the subsequent punishment. Good for the Principal.

#14 I agree with you 100%. The only reason I see is that you are being FORCED to pay for government schools, so you might as well get your money’s worth, right?

#22 Which is why you should do away with government schools and have only private schools. That way, if you want to send your kid to a d-bag dictatorial school w/ zero tolerance, you can. And if you want your kids playing with legos as part of the educational experience (my bro loved legos and he is now an architect) that you can do that too. One size fits all government schools is the problem here. The administration is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

#18, 22, zero tolerance is for idiots who don’t want to have to think.

# 18 dm:

“Imagine this scenario…. the principle used “common sense” and just told the kid to put away the toy, no formal report was issued. The following week the same kid brings a real gun to school and kills someone. Then everyone would blame the principal for not following protocol by overlooking the original infraction. …”

Oh boy! The hypothetical situation game! Let’s play!

* What if the principal had done nothing — then she wouldn’t have gotten her name in the paper and on TV!
* What it the kid now grows up to hate authority figures and becomes the next Unabomber?
* What if the principal saw the gun and just as she was about to do something about it, a giant asteroid hit the school at 45,000 miles per hour and vaporized everyone within 100 miles? Gee, then that kid would be in real trouble, eh?
* What if Spartacus had had a Piper Cub?

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# 22 Canuck:

” ‘It was only a toy gun’… famous last words before a cop shoots or tasers someone because they had a weapon that was meticulously crafted to be an EXACT copy of the real thing. #18 has it right… zero tolerance, because who knows what may happen next week.”

So I guess the principal should have hauled out her own .357 Magnum and blown the kid’s head “clean off,” as Dirty Harry put it? I don’t care if the gun was an exact replica of some real weapon — it was two inches long for Pete’s sake! I’m amazed the principal’s eyesight was good enough to make out what it was from a distance!