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Topic: Girl, 5, suspended from
kindergarten for ten days
after threatening to ´shoot´
friend with pink Hello
Kitty bubble gun |
Girl, 5, suspended from
kindergarten for ten days
after threatening to ´shoot´
friend with pink Hello
Kitty bubble gun
Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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Original Article
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/19/2013 10:58:35 AM
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| A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten. Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days but was reduced to two. Attorney Robin Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials labeled the girl a ´terrorist threat´ for the bubble gun remark, made on January 10 as both girls waited for a school bus. Scroll down for video -Ficker says the girl didn´t even have the bubble gun with her and
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/19/2013 11:04:39 AM (No. 9126364)
Gub´mint edjukators who decide the gub´mint rules.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lanczos, 1/19/2013 11:05:27 AM (No. 9126367)
Yet another case of "Fanatics never know when to stop."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou, 1/19/2013 11:06:43 AM (No. 9126370)
I would not send a child into the public school system in this day & age. When the time comes I will pay for my great grandson (age 1) to go to private school, IF his parents aren´t too brain dead to accept it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 1/19/2013 11:13:18 AM (No. 9126387)
And they say the gun lobby people are the nuts. Amazing example of human stupidity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
object_distance, 1/19/2013 11:20:13 AM (No. 9126404)
So why isn´t the manufacturer of Hello Kitty being held accountable??
Isn´t that what the dems want to do... hold gun manufacturers accountable. Shame on the manufacturer for creating a GUN in the first place!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LAW428, 1/19/2013 11:22:16 AM (No. 9126412)
This is utter lunacy. When will the leftist madness stop. It certainly will not as long as the Communist teacher´s union is in charge.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross, 1/19/2013 11:22:28 AM (No. 9126413)
I for one stand squarely with the school officials. Everyone knows that the most vicious terrorists all got their start by threatening other children with bubble guns. We have to stop this right now.
Sarcasm off. Why do these "officials" still have their jobs?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
geoman, 1/19/2013 11:31:14 AM (No. 9126431)
Why would a parent fight to get their child back in this school district? This episode is probably the tip of the lunacy iceberg at Mount Carmel.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley, 1/19/2013 11:41:48 AM (No. 9126452)
So once again the people who scream for common sense gun legislation display a complete lack of common sense.
Wonderful.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
gator, 1/19/2013 11:48:12 AM (No. 9126468)
Any school administrator that stupid, should be fired tomorrow, no second chance, no retirement, no severance, no nothing, just booted out the door.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FLCracker, 1/19/2013 11:54:42 AM (No. 9126484)
What the President said, if it will save ONE life, we must do everything we can.
Suspend the little brat? Shouldn´t she be sent to an alternative school, and intensive counseling without a doubt.
Too bad we don´t hvae mind-wipes, yet.
(Read Larry Niven´s stories placed at the beginning of the Kzinti wars.)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mitzi, 1/19/2013 12:20:07 PM (No. 9126535)
According to Ficker, school officials heard about the conversation and questioned the girls for 30 minutes the next day. Pennlive.com reported that the children´s parents were not informed this meeting was taking place.
Is that even legal? How could anyone ever send theeir child back into that school?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
voxpopuli, 1/19/2013 12:20:42 PM (No. 9126536)
this has GOT to hurt the poor kid´s self esteem..
LAWSUIT!!!
to the tune of BILLION DOLLARS..
destroy all government indoktrinashun centerz like this through the legal system..
a BILLION...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/19/2013 12:33:44 PM (No. 9126558)
Wow. These school officials are the ones in need of a psychiatric exam.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
uno, 1/19/2013 12:55:04 PM (No. 9126603)
Joe Biden will now push for mandatory FBI background checks for anyone entering Kindergarten - something he should consider doing so that he can learn to count past three...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
dman, 1/19/2013 1:36:49 PM (No. 9126644)
#´s 4,9,14, et al: yup, liberalism is a mental disease.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Daylily, 1/19/2013 1:45:53 PM (No. 9126658)
My brother and I and friends used to play "shoot ´em up cowboy" when we were little - point a toy gun, say bang you´re dead, and if they remained standing we´d tell them to fall down. Now we´re all grandparents who have led very peaceful and productive lives, with nary a ´terrorist´ among us.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab, 1/19/2013 1:51:32 PM (No. 9126660)
Isn´t the greater concern here that the threatening item was "Hello Kitty"?
Hello Kitty is Japan´s revenge for Truman´s bombs, and a greater threat to American Society than Lady Gaga all the rappers and the drug cartels put together.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 1/19/2013 2:13:15 PM (No. 9126701)
You think she´s in trouble now. Wait till they find out she had the 30 bubble clip.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
simple simon, 1/19/2013 2:53:00 PM (No. 9126770)
HA! Good one snakeoil!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/19/2013 2:59:47 PM (No. 9126782)
Could it be that the mass killings are the results of schools carrying things so far into the realm of nuttiness, and persecuting 5 year olds for using their imagination in play, such as pointing a finger or threatening to use a bubble gun..or not allowing any contact in play on the school grounds..that these kids crack and want to kill everyone in sight when they get older?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
geneinnyc, 1/19/2013 10:46:30 PM (No. 9127314)
And the girl´s parents are standing for this??!!
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