7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real

[Clementine]

Schools have absolutes and no room for imagination or completely harmless fun. Also no room for common sense. The kid was pretending to rescue the world from bad guys. Not allowed if you throw a pretend grenade and make a pshh sound when you do it. Teachers immediately pushed the panic button. Have schools become so narrow minded that they can no longer comprehend the nature of kids, especially young boys, who mimic super heroes or even our brave military? This crap needs to stop. Meanwhile, some older child is being bullied in high school while teachers turn their backs and it will be that child that gets pushed off the edge. No wonder they are ineffective at stopping violence. They pick on children for totally innocent things and ignore the real problems. The new rules seem designed to stifle the children's imagination and train them to think like mind-numbed idiots.

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real

A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it.

“It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says.

He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.

“I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go ‘pshhh.’”
The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary. Click here to see the Mary Blair “Absolutes”

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[Bigfoot]

It is so sad that adults use scaring children to further their warped political views. Playing army and cops & robbers was what we did until dark when I was growing up!

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Oh, jeez......

FAUX Noise

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[TNHarley]

What happened - did you get too beat up on your communist curriculum thread, that you abandoned it and started a new "what's wrong with our schools" thread?

Lemme guess ... your company is in the charter schools business, huh?

You are a little and

 

[nodoginnafight]

What happened - did you get too beat up on your communist curriculum thread, that you abandoned it and started a new "what's wrong with our schools" thread?

Lemme guess ... your company is in the charter schools business, huh?

You are a little and

I believe the motives of this charter schools salesman IS the topic here.

 

[Bigfoot]

He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

I bet me and this guy could play away an entire Saturday!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

What happened - did you get too beat up on your communist curriculum thread, that you abandoned it and started a new "what's wrong with our schools" thread?

Lemme guess ... your company is in the charter schools business, huh?

This instance is far more a legitimate criticism than that other thread.

 

[Barb]

What happened - did you get too beat up on your communist curriculum thread, that you abandoned it and started a new "what's wrong with our schools" thread?

Lemme guess ... your company is in the charter schools business, huh?

Honestly, I can sympathize with this. My son, in his last year at jr high, looked up the recipe for a stink bomb. He didn't HAVE a bomb, he didn't even have the PARTS for one, only the recipe, and for a STINK bomb at that. A boy being a boy, unfortunately after the tragic events at Virginia Tech. The Jr. Principal, (named appropriately enough after a German Gestapo head) decided to make an example of him, and I found it my duty to make mincemeat of her. He was back in school the next day, with papers in place instructing Kaiser Wilhelm that she, nor anyone else at the school, could seach or question my child without me present. He was never bothered again.

The funny thing in all this, including who the OP is, and the demographic she represents? My son's SD was VERY "conservative;" the bus drivers could play country music or nothing at all. Rock and Roll was "subversive."

It isn't "liberals" who are slavish to the arguable "security" sold by "authority;" THAT dubious distinction is clearly the purview of Clementine and Bigfoot.

 

[Barb]

He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

I bet me and this guy could play away an entire Saturday!

No responsible parent would let you anywhere near their child.

 

[Bigfoot]

He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

I bet me and this guy could play away an entire Saturday!

No responsible parent would let you anywhere near their child.

Oh really, why is that?

 

[Barb]

I bet me and this guy could play away an entire Saturday!

No responsible parent would let you anywhere near their child.

Oh really, why is that?

Stormfront isn't the appropriate source for play dates, and I find most of your statements on society reprehensible.

 

[nodoginnafight]

What happened - did you get too beat up on your communist curriculum thread, that you abandoned it and started a new "what's wrong with our schools" thread?

Lemme guess ... your company is in the charter schools business, huh?

This instance is far more a legitimate criticism than that other thread.

I can see that.

Unfortunately, I think erring on the side of caution is an understandable reaction.

 

[Bigfoot]

No responsible parent would let you anywhere near their child.

Oh really, why is that?

Stormfront isn't the appropriate source for play dates, and I find most of your statements on society reprehensible.

I don't know what stormfront is and the fact that you don't like me has nothing to do with my relationship with children and has everything to do with you're prejudice towards those with whom you disagree.

 

[Barb]

Oh really, why is that?

Stormfront isn't the appropriate source for play dates, and I find most of your statements on society reprehensible.

I don't know what stormfront is and the fact that you don't like me has nothing to do with my relationship with children and has everything to do with you're prejudice towards those with whom you disagree.

Oh, HELL no, you most certainly do too.

It goes FAR beyond simple disagreement. I know some people that I disagree violently with on most issues that I would trust with my kid's (WHEN they were kids) very lives. You are dishonest, bigoted, misogynist, and as far as you've shown here, not the type I'd want around my own in any way but as a bad example.

Why kick? You have no problem indicating that you feel the same way about people like me.

 

[Dubya]

Schools have absolutes and no room for imagination or completely harmless fun. Also no room for common sense. The kid was pretending to rescue the world from bad guys. Not allowed if you throw a pretend grenade and make a pshh sound when you do it. Teachers immediately pushed the panic button. Have schools become so narrow minded that they can no longer comprehend the nature of kids, especially young boys, who mimic super heroes or even our brave military? This crap needs to stop. Meanwhile, some older child is being bullied in high school while teachers turn their backs and it will be that child that gets pushed off the edge. No wonder they are ineffective at stopping violence. They pick on children for totally innocent things and ignore the real problems. The new rules seem designed to stifle the children's imagination and train them to think like mind-numbed idiots.

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real

A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” says Alex Evans, who doesn’t understand his suspension any better than he can pronounce it.

“It’s called ‘rescue the world,’” he says.

He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.

“I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go ‘pshhh.’”
The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. “So nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary. Click here to see the Mary Blair “Absolutes”

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real | KDVR.com ? Denver News, Weather & Sports from FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado

That'll teach that kid! He shouldn't be pretending to have grenades in the 2nd grade and should have real ones, right gun nuts? Grenades are arms and a little fragging will put that teacher in her place.

 

[Bigfoot]

Stormfront isn't the appropriate source for play dates, and I find most of your statements on society reprehensible.

I don't know what stormfront is and the fact that you don't like me has nothing to do with my relationship with children and has everything to do with you're prejudice towards those with whom you disagree.

Oh, HELL no, you most certainly do too.

It goes FAR beyond simple disagreement. I know some people that I disagree violently with on most issues that I would trust with my kid's (WHEN they were kids) very lives. You are dishonest, bigoted, misogynist, and as far as you've shown here, not the type I'd want around my own in any way but as a bad example.

Why kick? You have no problem indicating that you feel the same way about people like me.

LOL, you're funny!

Edit to add: You know, the last person on this forum that said I knew something that I didn't was Jillian. Are you two eating each other?

 

[Barb]

I don't know what stormfront is and the fact that you don't like me has nothing to do with my relationship with children and has everything to do with you're prejudice towards those with whom you disagree.

Oh, HELL no, you most certainly do too.

It goes FAR beyond simple disagreement. I know some people that I disagree violently with on most issues that I would trust with my kid's (WHEN they were kids) very lives. You are dishonest, bigoted, misogynist, and as far as you've shown here, not the type I'd want around my own in any way but as a bad example.

Why kick? You have no problem indicating that you feel the same way about people like me.

LOL, you're funny!

Edit to add: You know, the last person on this forum that said I knew something that I didn't was Jillian. Are you two eating each other?

I'd neg you for that, but we just kind of shook hands. Still, ewwwwe

I don't do sushi

 

[Bigfoot]

 

[Dubya]

What happened - did you get too beat up on your communist curriculum thread, that you abandoned it and started a new "what's wrong with our schools" thread?

Lemme guess ... your company is in the charter schools business, huh?

Honestly, I can sympathize with this. My son, in his last year at jr high, looked up the recipe for a stink bomb. He didn't HAVE a bomb, he didn't even have the PARTS for one, only the recipe, and for a STINK bomb at that. A boy being a boy, unfortunately after the tragic events at Virginia Tech. The Jr. Principal, (named appropriately enough after a German Gestapo head) decided to make an example of him, and I found it my duty to make mincemeat of her. He was back in school the next day, with papers in place instructing Kaiser Wilhelm that she, nor anyone else at the school, could seach or question my child without me present. He was never bothered again.

The funny thing in all this, including who the OP is, and the demographic she represents? My son's SD was VERY "conservative;" the bus drivers could play country music or nothing at all. Rock and Roll was "subversive."

It isn't "liberals" who are slavish to the arguable "security" sold by "authority;" THAT dubious distinction is clearly the purview of Clementine and Bigfoot.

Here is an odd story. My first grade teacher would pass out clay for us to play with and build something creative. I used to make a building with roads and real tiny people. I'd put the tiny people in the building and stab it repeatedly with a sharpened pencil. Then I'd open up the building and see if any of the tiny people were injured. I thought my teacher was mean when she came by and told me I was sick for doing it.

Well I was a little kid then, but the adults weren't mean for giving us nuclear drills all the time and worrying a little kid about getting hit by nuclear missiles. I was just checking out the chances of surviving.

 

[Clementine]

Thing is, schools will not tolerate the mere mention of any weapon. Kids normally play pretend and often copy super heroes or maybe even their fathers fighting for our country. And for that harmless play, they are treated like bad children and get suspended from school. The lesson is that what they did, in this case pretending to get the bad guys, is wrong. For all we know, the kid was imitating Obama getting bin Laden. It's wrong to kill the bad guys, eh?

Because of the overly strict policy of no guns or any mention of guns allowed, I take it to mean that children will never sit in class or elsewhere in the school and discuss gun rights. If there is a discussion of the constitution and bill of rights, how do they get around talking about guns?

No pretending, no imagining being a good guy after the bad guys, no slipping and saying gun, even though guns are legal and it's our right to own them. No discussion the war in history class because that involves weapons. But, hey, kiddies, let's create a commie flag. I know damn well that no liberal teacher is going to encourage a child to create a commie or socialist flag in a negative manner. That is because they see socialism, or communism, as a positive thing.