REALLY?? 8-Year-Old Suspended Over Gun-Shaped Pop-Tart

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REALLY?? An 8-year old kid got suspended over a pop-tart that he ate into the shape of a gun?? Will the insanity ever end?!! :naw:

8-Year-Old Suspended Over Gun-Shaped Pop-Tart
Gets Lifetime NRA Membership
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The National Rifle Association has given an 8-year-old boy a free lifetime membership, the Baltimore Sun reports. His achievement was chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.

The NRA gave Joshua Welch the free membership — which usually costs $550 — at a fundraiser Wednesday night for Anne Arundel County Republicans. Welch returned to playing games on his cellphone after he got the award, the Sun reported.

Welch got on the news after his March 1 suspension from Park Elementary School for the Pop-Tart incident. He was 7 then and denied trying to make the Pop-Tart look like a weapon.

When pressed by a CBS Baltimore reporter, though, Welch said, "When I was done, it turned out to be a gun, yeah."

Park Elementary told parents it would give counseling to any children who needed it after the Pop-Tart incident.

A lawyer has filed an appeal to get the two-day suspension off Welch's record.

See article here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-yea...t-gets-lifetime-nra-membership-142034921.html
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wow really? the kid ate his pop tart and gets suspended. its not like it was an actual gun :doh:
 
So freakin stupid, I think it's the staff at that elementary school that needs to be suspended or fired and never teach children again!


Ray ⛺
 
there was one on the radio yesterday up in Newengland where the 7 year old brought a LEGO toy gun the size of a quarter and was "about" to be disaplined by the school, but the school got feedback via how public it was, and put out the next day saying that the reports were wrong and they would have never disaplined him..

The damb thing was the size of a Quarter!!! Are these people serious??
 
I'm pretty sure I recall doing the same thing as a kid. My friends and I just thought we were having funny. Little did we know we were all dangerous outlaw miscreant hell spawn or something similar..like a customer computer support tech.
 
phillypete said:
I'm sure glad I got my growing up out of the way when I did, but I pity my kids.
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Agreed but what does this say about our generation? They are the ones becoming the administrators and enforcing these dumbass policies...

I am 33. I grew up in a town in Iowa and kept a shotgun in my truck in case I could get a phesant or two after school. Never had a problem.
 
WhiteDynamite said:
Agreed but what does this say about our generation? They are the ones becoming the administrators and enforcing these dumbass policies...
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It is a reflection of the apathy and complacency that plagues many.

I am 33. I grew up in a town in Iowa and kept a shotgun in my truck in case I could get a phesant or two after school. Never had a problem.
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Yeah, but look at you now. You are holding one of those scary black rifles in your avatar. :crazyeyes: :cheesy:
 
It's all agenda fellas. THEY don't want us to have firearms. So all of a sudden any n everything related to guns is hyper exaggerated in the media. Crazy...
 
MTG said:
It is a reflection of the apathy and complacency that plagues many.



Yeah, but look at you now. You are holding one of those scary black rifles in your avatar. :crazyeyes: :cheesy:
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:clap2: haha!

Are you guys going to suspend me for my avatar? :cheesy:
 
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/suffolk/boy-who-held-pencil-like-gun-suspended

Boy who held pencil like gun suspended
School has "zero tolerance" weapons policy

Updated: Thursday, 09 May 2013, 3:54 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 06 May 2013, 5:33 PM EDT

Anne McNamara
SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises.

Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing with another student in class Friday, when the teacher at Driver Elementary asked them to stop pointing pencils at each other.

"When I asked him about it, he said, 'Well I was being a Marine and the other guy was being a bad guy,'" said Paul Marshall, the boy's father. "It's as simple as that."

Christopher's father was a Marine for many years. He thinks school leaders overreacted.

"A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made," said Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for Suffolk Public Schools.

The Suffolk school system has a "zero tolerance policy" when it comes to weapons. And, Bradshaw admits, that policy has tightened up in recent years because of widely publicized school shootings.

"Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community," said Bradshaw. "Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day."

But Christopher's parents say school administrators failed to use common sense. Christopher has good grades and no history of being disruptive in class. They pointed out a line on the suspension notice, where the teacher wrote, "I told him to stop and he did."

"Enough is enough," said Paul Marshall. "I see it as the tail is now wagging the dog."

And while Christopher can play freely at home, he says he won't pretend to play with guns at school in the future.

Bethanne Bradshaw with Suffolk Public Schools says both students were suspended for two days. The other student was also 7 years old.
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