Listen, with all the killing, injuries and threats made with guns, I don't think any type of gun whether it doesn't look like one or not should be allowed. BTW, where are the parents common sense on this, why would you let your child go to school with a toy gun. What message is that sending out.
No this is not over the top, being dramatic or anything else. We have lost a lot of kids to guns in the last 20 years, let alone the untold stories of threatening gestures with guns that went unknown, threats off school grounds ect....
There is no place for any kind of gun at school. Their parents should be punished also, maybe with tax finding or make the parents contribute to the Columbine Fund.
Did you read the article, Danny? The kid snuck it into his backpack:
"I had a phone call from the school saying that my son got suspended for taking a toy gun to school," said Lorraine Romero, mother of the kindergarten student. "He's just a kid. He doesn't know any better."
Anthony was suspended for one day for taking a facsimile of a gun to school. Apparently, he snuck it into his backpack Wednesday morning.
Romero knows it was wrong, but she doesn't believe the punishment fits the crime.
"I don't think he should have gotten suspended for that," Romero said. "I think they should have just talked to him about it and say, 'Hey, you know you're not supposed to bring any toys to school.' "[/list][/size]
unlike you, just because someone says or writes something, I do not have to take it as gospel. Now, my reaction is to after she realized he had done this (with all the implications) she still cried foul. No, I do not expect the boy to understand the complexities of bringing in a toy gun to school. He probably wanted to show it off, no problem. But his mother knows what was wrong and why he had to be suspended. There are rules that can not be compromised, especially when it comes to guns of any kind.
Bravo!!!!!
She cried foul because
the punishment did not fit the crime. This was a kid that was in
kindergarten, with possibly no prior experience in dealing with the bureaucratic rigamarole of a school system, 'bout a mere month after school started.
The school has a certain amount of
discretion at its disposal, in choosing how they're gonna handle each case.
The article even mentioned the Colorado state law which
"gives school districts discretion over which incidents to administer punishment instead of mandatory expulsion or suspension." This school clearly chose not to exercise any such discretion when it came to Anthony Saenz and his nerf gun.