Several years ago, I would regularly share horror stories about innocent kids being abused by politically correct government school administrators who overreacted to anything remotely resembling a gun.
I even had a U.S. vs. U.K. stupidity contest that featured many examples of anti-gun lunacy, though Canada may actually win the prize for the most absurd case of political correctness.
But I eventually stopped sharing these types of stories because it seemed there were so many and I felt like I was making the same points over and over again.
Time for the hiatus to end. I’ve run across a handful of stories that are so preposterous that I can’t resist revisiting the issue.
Here’s our first example. A local television station in North Carolina reports that a little girl was suspended because she pretended that a stick was a gun while playing with her friends.
A local mother is outraged after her 5-year-old daughter was suspended from school because of a stick that resembled a gun.
…It started Friday when her mother got a call from the principal about a playground incident. Caitlin explained that she and her two friends were using their imaginations, playing “King and Queen.” In this case, Caitlin was the guard protecting the royals and picked up the gun to imitate shooting an intruder into the kingdom. Hoke County Schools said Caitlin posed a threat to other students when she made a shooting motion, thus violating policy 4331. …Miller says Caitlin was alienated by her friends and teachers as a result of the suspension. She hopes that the school will issue some sort of apology to her daughter.
I’m not the only one who thinks this is insane.
Now for our second story.
It’s about a very dangerous 11-year old girl who – gasp!! – . A Florida television station has the details.
A South Florida couple is outraged after they said their daughter was suspended from her middle school for using a child butter knife at lunchtime to cut a peach.
…Souto’s daughter is an honor roll student at Silver Trail Middle School in Pembroke Pines. …Ronald and Andrea Souto told Local 10 News reporter Michael Seiden that their 11-year-old daughter was suspended for six days for bringing the knife to school. “This is a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers — one year old,” Andrea Souto said. “It is made for children to learn how to eat properly. She’s used it since she was baby.” According to the school district, the girl violated the county’s weapon policy when she used her butter knife in the cafeteria to cut the peach. …Ronald said he hopes what happened to his daughter will bring change to the district, specifically new polices when it comes to weapons.
But this rogue child didn’t just get suspended. She may become an actual criminal.
The Soutos said they were shocked about the suspension and are now concerned that their daughter’s act of kindness could lead to criminal charges. …The Pembroke Pines Police Department said it has turned over their investigation to the State Attorney’s Office. It’s unclear whether prosecutors will file charges.
Our third story comes from a St. Louis TV station and it involves a four-year old boy who was suspended for a shell casing.
Hunter, 4, has been suspended from his preschool for bringing a shell casing from a fired bullet to school. He’d been at the preschool for about a year, she said, and now was in tears.
Neither she nor Hunter’s dad knew it, but he found something he thought was pretty neat and he took it to school Tuesday to show his friends. …Hunter’s parents got a letter from the school’s director saying Hunter had been suspended for 7 days. …It turns out the casing came from a visit with Hunter’s grandpa who is a Caseyville police officer, Jackson said. …The school’s vice-president e-mailed her that he was notifying the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
The last sentence is particularly chilling since DCFS bureaucrats presumably have the power to take children from their families. So imagine the horrible position of Hunter’s parents, who not only have to deal with their kid being suspended for doing nothing wrong, but also have to worry about the state kidnapping their child if some anti-gun bureaucrat woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Our fourth and final story is courtesy of the Montgomery Advertiser in Alabama, where a teenager was expelled for a year because of a water gun.
A family is up in arms after their 16-year-old daughter was expelled from Prattville High School for having a water gun on campus.
…she was banned from school property and any extra-curricular activities for the same period. …She said a male classmate handed the toy to her daughter “as a joke.” “…the second you picked it up, you know its plastic and a toy,” she said. “So we can understand the initial reaction, not knowing it wasn’t a real gun. But after the principal and school officials knew it was a water gun, things should never have progressed this far.” …The family wants any reference to the expulsion removed from Laney’s academic records, McPhillips’ letters read. …If the expulsion isn’t removed from Laney’s academic record, the family is considering filing legal action
I suppose there are two big-picture lessons to be learned.
First, it’s hard to be optimistic about the education system after reading this type of story.
If bureaucrats at government schools don’t have common sense, how can they teach reading, writing, and arithmetic?
Maybe (especially given the shocking lack of results after record levels of staffing and funding) we should break up the government school monopoly and let parents choose better-quality schools.
Second, keep in mind that anti-gun statists know they can’t win the intellectual argument against private gun ownership, so they’re trying to stigmatize anything remotely connected to guns in hopes of eventually winning the political argument.
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“In places like Edina, Minnesota, the Left has transformed K-12 schools into indoctrination factories whose overarching purpose is to train students to be reflexively racist and anti-American.”
“Minnesota is Ground Zero in the Left’s efforts to brainwash young people.”
“Vadum: Getting Them Young”
commentary
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/vadum-getting-them-young
“In The Wall Street Journal recently, New Hampshire physician Dr. Aida Cerundolo blew the whistle on faux mental-health assessment of public-school students in the Granite State. Some K-8 students are being subjected to blanket screening by untrained, unlicensed personnel, with serious questions about use or protection of the resulting records. And parents not only haven’t consented to this process, they haven’t even been told it’s happening.”
there is little doubt that student records produced by these methods will be abused by political operatives… perhaps to restrict a young person’s right to pursue a rewarding career…. buy a firearm… or engage in other activities associated with a free society…
“Mental Health Assessments or Standardized Testing? Lines Are Blurring.”
by Emmett McGroarty
https://thenationalpulse.com/commentary/mental-health-assessments-standardized-testing-lines-blurring/
“Teaching Social Justice through Secondary Mathematics” is a six-week online course designed by Teach for America and offered through EdX, which provides free online classes from top universities such as Harvard University, MIT, and Columbia University.”
“Teachers Instructed to Use Math to Indoctrinate Kids in Social Justice”
BY TOM KNIGHTON
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/05/17/teachers-instructed-to-use-math-to-indoctrinate-kids-in-social-justice/
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“Will Fascism Come to America through Its Colleges and Universities?”
BY ROGER L SIMON
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2017/04/27/will-fascism-come-to-america-through-its-colleges-and-universities/
it isn’t just anti-firearms propaganda….
“What did we learn today, kids?”
“Art Teacher Wears Handmade ‘Tuck Frump’ Jacket in Classroom”
BY Trey Sanchez
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/art-teacher-wears-handmade-tuck-frump-jacket-classroom
I agree wholeheartedly with Ronald Richards above. Until these imbeciles are treated to some serious justice, this garbage will continue.
The money needs to come out of the pockets of the individuals, not the taxpayers of the jurisdictions.
american students preform at the same level as students in the Slovak Republic…. we spend over $115 usd pr student… the Slovak Republic spends $53 usd…
our public schools have become over-priced tools of indoctrination for leftist values and ideology rather than instruments of academic achievement…
Paul Simon said it best:
“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school… it’s a wonder I can think at all…”
Click to access PISA-2012-results-US.pdf
The politicians would very much like to rule over a population of mush-brains – which is precisely what the state schools are turning out.
Public: ‘education’ was never a good idea, as its sole aim has always been to create a submissive electorate, consisting in: ‘good citizens’. ‘Good citizens’ will never demand the dissolution of the government, that vulgar sideshow, and its replacement with libertarianism.
In spite of the collectivist ideas inculcated into the still-malleable minds of the young, in the past there was at least an attempt to maintain academic standards. Now we are all equal, academic distinction – and any other kind of individual distinction – is considered a crime and a sin.
Third, … what kind of a creative economy can we maintain in the future if we raise submissive unimaginative children who only say “yes sir”, growing up in fear and paranoia that they may violate one of thousands of nonsensical harmonizing and homogenizing rules and be suspended, stigmatized and excluded from the lovely community ?
someone needs to be personally sued, as well as the school districts, with no settlement, let a jury decide this and see how quickly this gets fixed
In each of these cases, I imagine there is a person of reason whose hands are tied. With 4331 (probably in the middle of the pack) regulations to follow, it seems there is little room for judgment to be applied. They call this “zero tolerance” policy. And I guess the reason it exists is that somewhere along the line, some person used judgment that was overboard, or out of line. So, they then took judgment out of the hands of the teachers- who are more than happy to avoid the ensuing law suits. “I’m just following the black-and-white rules”. It’s a no-win situation these days Too many lawyers in this world.
My first lesson in civics was from our second grade teacher. First day of class she let us make up our own rules for how we would be governed. We had rules for everything from noises to picking the nose. I recall the chalk board (remember those?) being FULL of rules. After four days, we decided that we should get rid of those, and just live by the teacher’s rules. The next week life turned for the better, and we all decided she was a wiser ruler than we were.
I guess we’ve now let the parents come in and fill the chalk board. And the liberal faction just loves worthless rules.
“Hoke County Schools said Caitlin posed a threat to other students when she made a shooting motion, thus violating policy 4331.”
Really? 4331 policies?
It used to be up to the nun. She said, “Stop that.” If you didn’t, you went to the principal. If it was really serious, your parents were notified.
There were not thousands of policies with fixed penalties. You were required to “behave” and reason was used in the application of punishment.