6 Year Old Boy Suspended From School For Making A "Gun" With His Hand

[Panzerlord]

A Michigan boy reportedly has been suspended from school for curling his hand into the shape of a gun and pointing it at another student.

 

Erin Jammer, said her son, Mason, was just playing around when he made the gesture Wednesday, the Grand Rapids Press reported.

 

"I do think it's harsh for a six-year-old. He's six and he just likes to play. Maybe what you could do is take his recess away. He's only six and he doesn't understand any of this," Erin Jammer said.

 

But officials at Jefferson Elementary School said the behavior made other students uncomfortable, and they suspended Mason for the remainder of the week, the paper reported.

 

School officials also told the paper that Mason had been warned repeatedly against pretending to aim his hand at students but continued the behavior over several months.

 

Jammer told the paper her son isn't violent and doesnt have toy guns at home. She suggested a less harsh punishment, like taking Masons recess away, might be more effective in teaching him not to make a gun with his hand.

 

"He's only six and he doesn't understand any of this," she said.

 

 

 

This just seems a little bit ridiculous, no?

[SeanyTheSailor]

*facepalm*

[dsavi]

Yay, more shock news! People are oversensitive in America, that's really stupid, they don't have any common sense and all the rest of it.

[/topic] (Unless you count everyone else that will say the same thing or yell at me) :-)

[Alg]

Why can't we get some non-shock news threads in here? We have enough proof that people are overly-PC.

[Sy_Accursed]

The school sounds rather justified IMO

If it genuinely was upsetting other students and the kid had been warned to not do it over a period of several months due to this fact.

 

Sounds like basic logic really.

I mean if a small kid kept punching other kids (and obviously upsetting/injuring them) at school over a period of months and was repeatedly warned not to he'd be suspended.

Fair enough making a gun sign with your hands seems like nothing to most of us, but if as reported it upsets others there's a reason to not do it. Same way you don't and smoke in the face of someone who's very anti-smoking or try to avoid swearing if your around highly religious folk etc.

[All_Is_Great]

Yet people in America are allowed to own guns for "self defence" :rolleyes:

[Zilla]

The reason for this makes as much sense to me as trying to fight a Polar Bear with a spoon.

 

Honestly schools are getting more stupid and stupid these days. What's next? A student getting expelled for having a pencil sharpened at two ends, and it being considered "a very deadly weapon"?

[blakdragon39]

Yet people in America are allowed to own guns for "self defence" :rolleyes:

 

That seems the real irony to me. :P I could go on and say how stupid people are, people need to lighten up, etc. I bet the kid weren't even upset, it was the adults who were upset. What can you do though. The world gets more and more sensitive everyday. Maybe we should just return to the archaic lifestyle for a while, and people will lighten up. :P

[stevepole]

Honestly I agree with the punishment. The kid was told to not do it, he had plenty of prior warnings to stop, his behavior made others feel uncomfortable around him. Yes, you could probably sit here and argue that they could have settle with a less "harsh" punishment but at the end of the day suspending the kid is best way to get through to the kid that violence is not ok under any situation even if it is pretend because could get his hands on a real gun are start pointing it at other students.

[Dizzle229]

This would have just been PC bs if it was the first time he'd done it, but he was repeatedly warned to stop.

[WolfBoy989]

The first thing I thought of when i saw this was the kid who was suspended for bringing a 2 inch gun to school.

 

Also when i read this it seemed that the parents weren't warned about it at all.

 

The reason for this makes as much sense to me as trying to fight a Polar Bear with a spoon.

 

Honestly schools are getting more stupid and stupid these days. What's next? A student getting expelled for having a pencil sharpened at two ends, and it being considered "a very deadly weapon"?

 

I agree completely. Although at my school you can get a detention for bringing in tin foil because it's listed under "weapons" in the handbook. #-o

[Socc]

Tbh, a suspension at his age would be paradise for him... No school as a kindergardener/first grader? Epic win.

The recess would teach him more, because now he's been taught make a gun and no school! if he lost recess it'd be make a gun and lose recess. Seriously, which is worse?

[Alg]

Tbh, a suspension at his age would be paradise for him... No school as a kindergardener/first grader? Epic win.

The recess would teach him more, because now he's been taught make a gun and no school! if he lost recess it'd be make a gun and lose recess. Seriously, which is worse?

So, effectively, this teaches the kid that he can get out of school if he pretends to shoot kids.

[rangeor]

This news shocks me. It initially made me briefly question the direction humanity is heading towards, until I read the content and noticed negligible amounts of justification.

 

Next.

[Zilla]

Tbh, a suspension at his age would be paradise for him... No school as a kindergardener/first grader? Epic win.

The recess would teach him more, because now he's been taught make a gun and no school! if he lost recess it'd be make a gun and lose recess. Seriously, which is worse?

So, effectively, this teaches the kid that he can get out of school if he pretends to shoot kids.

Sadly I think that is true.

[RpgGamer]

Schools need to pull their panty's out of their [wagon]. Today, I was walking to my local grocery store, and a 6-7 year old pointed a cap gun out of the passenger window of a car and pretended to shoot me. Right accross the street from a fire station, on a fairly busy road. No fuss was made. School needs to brighten up, and stop giving such a crap.

[Giordano]

Tbh, a suspension at his age would be paradise for him... No school as a kindergardener/first grader? Epic win.

The recess would teach him more, because now he's been taught make a gun and no school! if he lost recess it'd be make a gun and lose recess. Seriously, which is worse?

So, effectively, this teaches the kid that he can get out of school if he pretends to shoot kids.

Sadly I think that is true.

So, effectively, this teaches people that he can get out of paying taxes if he goes to jail. (no income)

 

No. The kids would feel some sort of trouble and wrong-doing and won't think that way.

[Saru Inc]

The school sounds rather justified IMO

If it genuinely was upsetting other students and the kid had been warned to not do it over a period of several months due to this fact.

 

Sounds like basic logic really.

I mean if a small kid kept punching other kids (and obviously upsetting/injuring them) at school over a period of months and was repeatedly warned not to he'd be suspended.

Fair enough making a gun sign with your hands seems like nothing to most of us, but if as reported it upsets others there's a reason to not do it. Same way you don't and smoke in the face of someone who's very anti-smoking or try to avoid swearing if your around highly religious folk etc.

 

If you get scared from getting a gun pointed at you, made of the most likely play dough smelling hands of a 6 year old; you have other underlying emotional problems that shouldn't be included in the argument for said student's expulsion.

 

 

Next week the news:

 

 

"Kid Says "BOO!" during a Halloween Party in 2nd grade, girl has been diagnosed with PTS. Child's Court Date is Set."

 

 

I think these schools have realized the trend, and are suspending for the media coverage. One more reason our public schools fail.

[Romy]

Tbh, a suspension at his age would be paradise for him... No school as a kindergardener/first grader? Epic win.

The recess would teach him more, because now he's been taught make a gun and no school! if he lost recess it'd be make a gun and lose recess. Seriously, which is worse?

 

Personaly, as I remember myself in the 1st grade, if I were suspended I'd cry for hours. That's just me though.

[Star_Fox]

this is more stupid than the nine year old with a 2 inch lego gun. oh lordy...

 

i guess the zero tolerance policy > common sense.

[TTanT]

 

Scary, isn't it?

[champion]

 

Scary, isn't it?

 

 

 

Put a sight on that bad boy.

[Returned3]

 

Scary, isn't it?

 

Oh god, take it away! Take it away! It's offensive!

[Romy]

 

Scary, isn't it?

 

You deserve Ban-Hammer!

[Dexek]

Yet we were able to shoot airsoft guns around our school...

 

This is way, way, way over the top. Better watch.. next time a kid is picking his nose, he might actually be pretending to put a gun up his nose, possibly motioning that he may commit suicide.... :wall: