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Subscribe to RSSA Maryland first-grader has been suspended for pointing his fingers like a gun at school.
The boy, a student at Roscoe Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, was suspended for one day. The incident happened a week after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The family's attorney says the 6-year-old was playing with friends, not making threats.
"Evidently, he was pointing his finger at someone and saying, 'Pow,'" said Robin Ficker, an attorney for the family.
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The boy's parents were scheduled to meet with school officials Wednesday.
The school system will not comment on individual disciplinary matters. But they did issue a statement detailing their typical procedure with younger students.
"Generally, in an incident involving the behavior of our younger students, we will make sure that the student and his family are well-informed of any behavior that needs to change and understand the consequences if the behavior does not change," said Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Dana Tofig in a statement.
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Yup, this isn't really news. They threatened this all the time when I was in elementary back in the 90s. Femenazis get their tinfoil panties in a bunch. Little boys have been playing gladiator and crusador since the dawn of little boys, yet they think that this normal behavior means that the kid is going to grow up to be a murderer or a ganster or somthing? Even though they'll be cuddling with mom as soon as their done.
I know when I was growing up in the late 60's and 70's we were allowed to use our finger as a gun. Funny, we grew up ok. I don't own a gun, but I still own my finger. Now, I just use a different finger.
The way kids behave in public schools today this is the least of the school's problem. So I suppose you can give someone the finger as long as you make no sound with it?
Play? This is not about play - this is about wrong-thinking. The parents and child will be re-educated to eliminate wrong-thinking. So orders the Ministry of Truth.
The Ministry of Truth has a big job ahead of them.
Bingo!!!!!!!!!
no sh!t.... fking retarded school officials strike again..... feel sorry for those kids
This disgusting piglike man, after being dry-humped by Obama during that big hug, should not be allowed to call himself a Repubican, let alone a true American. He is the one on whom shame should be dumped, and he knows it. He is finished in politics, at least as Republican. He should move over to the democrats, where the girlie men go!
WTF???
It's time to take the literary device, onomatopoeia, out of the language arts curriculum! I knew figurative language would bring us down someday.
PEW!
OFF WITH HIS HAND!
<sarcasm off>
Maryland is just another hapless state where the liberal crackpots hold a majority; was like living in Orwell's "1984"!
Off with his fingers !!!
It appears the student has a better grasp on reality than the school administration. I think the principal and the superintendent ought to be fired for terminal stupidity.
I'd sign that petition! (Although I would need to sure of the offending parties - the article doesn't woute the superintendent.)
Agree :-)
These officials have gone off the deep end
Get a life!
This is a pivotal event. It marks the moment when we officially became a chicken-sh!t nation.
Suspend students making threats? That is common sense.
Investigate facebook statements promoting or planning violence? Yeah, I'm cool with that.
Tighten existing gun laws? Tough to do politically, but I'd vote for it.
But suspend a six-year-old child for engaing in a fake gun shoot-out? Completely ridiculous.
I wonder what school administrators would do if they were sent back to the 1960s or 1970s, when fairly real-looking toy guns, were huge items at Christmas, and almost every boy between 6 and adolescence played at being some sort of gun-shooting, action hero.
Unbelievable, yet true.
sure fire way to grow more sociopaths, criticize everything they do.
Clearly the kid did absolutely nothing wrong. He said "POW", he didn't say "BANG". If he would have said bang then he clearly should be disciplined. Cause only toy guns go POW! real guns go BANG!. he would have been simulating a real weapon if he said "BANG"
Go to the inner cities for a real POW!
I blame the liberal democrats and pot-hippies of the 1960's. Obviously some victims of serious long-term drug use made that decision....
It is Mongomery County - a good bit of it is "inside the beltway" DC area.
You can blame the liberals if you want Zod, but it was when the extremely conservative left broke down the barrier between church and state and demanded that everybody who spit less than 10 feet be branded for life. Why don't you write your senator and see if you can get this kid made an example of? Maybe that will keep you busy enough to keep you off this page.
Hey . . . Educators . . . LIGHTEN UP!
They should shoot the educators with their middle finger
What is this world coming, too. When I was a kid, we were playing 'cowboys 'n indians' making all of kinds of noises like that. I shouldn't be telling you that, 'cuz I could be arrested??
Bob - that makes you non-PC in today's school environment . You don't get arrested, you get demonized as being a racist with such a horrible up bringing (tongue in cheek)
BTW - I really did grow up in the inner city and you don't even want to go there. Not sure how that plays out these days
He's a six year old!!! DAMN talk about overreacting!!! it's the adults who need counseling
This is just too weird. I guess this means there will now be a run on "assault fingers."
With high-capacity magazines!
Would he have been suspended is he said "ZAP!"? Pretending your finger is a gun won't make you a killer later in life. We should look more at the kids with behavioral problems than the kids playing with toy guns.
can a child say "Boo ya" and be okay? I wonder what all the principal peeps say to that?
This kid needs to be drawn and quartered, hung by his neck until dead and made to stand in the corner for 2 hours. Then never spoken to again....He is a killer ,rapist and child molester.....Oh crap he is a child....Dam. Any suggestions on what we should do to this dangerous felon? He can't be allowed back in society.
Maybe an extra half-hour of TV time and two scoops of ice cream?
Rob, I suppose your the software designer that created something like "Grand Theft Auto" and now I assume your just acting at facetiousness. I certainly hope you are not for real.
I was joking....Do you mean to tell me you couldn't tell. OMG!