Another kid suspended for bringing an imaginary weapon to school

[Knave]

http://www.wafb.com/story/20974752/boy-suspended-for-imagining-grenade

LOVELAND, CO (KDVR/CNN) – A seven-year-old boy was suspended from school for including an imaginary grenade in his make-believe game called "rescue the world."

Alex Evans was playing a hero during recess at Mary Blair Elementary School when he threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.

He did not throw anything real or make any threats against anyone.

His imaginary play broke the real rules. The school lists what it calls absolutes under the parent resources section of its website: absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary, and no weapons, real or imaginary.

It breaks my heart thinking about all of the dead imaginary people inside that box. Evil doers or not, imaginary people deserve due process and equal protection.

 

[bassicpackrat]

Wow,just wow..... you know, I think there needs to be an equivalent 0% No Tolerance law for school board and administration stupidity! This smacks of the PC epidemic running rampant. I wonder if they will ever come out with a vaccine for that!

 

[Nomad.2nd]

Thought police!

 

[whitsend]

Thought police!

^The first thing that went through my mind.

1984 is now.

 

[larryp44]

It would be really helpful if law enforcement and the courts were just as hard on the criminals as our kids... Again, this country is upside down and backwards !!!!

 

[returningliberty]

This is crazy. I used to be Han Solo in first grade recess. Hundreds of imaginary storm troopers and guidos were murdered by my hand. To think I'd get suspended for that now just blows my mind.

 

[zguinness]

It saddens me that my kid will never know the joy of playing Smear The Queer...

 

[Sully]

I'm a murder suspect.......


I've killed so many GI Joe, Heeman, and army men in my younger years....

 

[EonDresari]

I wonder if it was against the rules to hunt those dinosaurs out by the jungle gym... damn Velociraptors had it coming.

 

[blackkryptonite]

After all the imaginary crimes I apparently committed in grade school I should probably be serving life right now.

 

[Tinytitan]

After all the imaginary crimes I apparently committed in grade school I should probably be serving life right now.

Probably? I definitely would be lol

 

[Nomad.2nd]

After all the imaginary crimes I apparently committed in grade school I should probably be serving life right now.

Can you imagine serving time?

 

[sandman7925]

Re education starts at a young age. I guess they figure its best to start on the bottom and work their way up.

 

[kcinnick]

Well, my 5 year old is going to cause me lots of trouble if imagination of destroying evil doers is grounds for suspension. He already has the hunting dinosaurs down pat, and crashing cars. Oh, wait, it is OK to kill someone with a car, never mind.

 

[rocketsteve]

If parents don't step up and stop this **** RIGHT NOW, we'll end up losing ANOTHER generation to this systematic brainwashing.

 

[bassicpackrat]

If parents don't step up and stop this **** RIGHT NOW, we'll end up losing ANOTHER generation to this systematic brainwashing.

True words right there ^^^

 

[GunAddict]

This should be put in the dictionary under the definition of "lunacy"

 

[Ar15>Ak47]

If parents don't step up and stop this **** RIGHT NOW, we'll end up losing ANOTHER generation to this systematic brainwashing.

I couldnt agree with you more!

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[benorth]

We will all be screwed if they start regulating the thoughts of adult minds, those who still have one. I killed 7 people on Essen lane on monday. (in my mind of course, maybe)

 

[zguinness]

Ban imaginations!!!