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Topic: Pennsylvania girl, 5, suspended for threatening to shoot girl with pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles |
Pennsylvania girl, 5, suspended for threatening to shoot girl with pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles
Fox News, by Edmund DeMarche
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/19/2013 6:44:00 PM
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| A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty 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 for issuing a ´terroristic threat.´ But her punishment was reduced to two days after her mother met with school officials and had the incident dropped to ´threatening to harm another student,´ which apparently carries a lesser punishment. "It´s laughable," Robin Ficker, the girl´s attorney told FoxNews.com.
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Comments: This is a "terroristic threat" and Al Qaeda are just activist militants, or whatever. Be very afraid for your children. Nothing could scar a little girl more than being put through the criminal justice system at this age. [Even Catholics don´t say a five-year-old is ready to "reason," like in go to confession.]
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/19/2013 6:47:39 PM (No. 9127060)
Good grief! CBS better see to it that that child is detroyed!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jl80863, 1/19/2013 6:55:34 PM (No. 9127073)
These nit wits are supposed to be teaching our children. They have no difficulty talking about "situational ethics" which is basically a lack of ethics but are unable to see what that situation really is. Thia is madness, our schools have falllen down the rabbit hole.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
losgatos, 1/19/2013 6:59:41 PM (No. 9127077)
I think they have the wrong terrorist. Whichever school official who made this decision is the terrorist. Don´t you just wonder how incredibly stupid you´d have to be to do something like this? The lawsuit should continue even if the school caves.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Northcross, 1/19/2013 7:07:28 PM (No. 9127095)
Unless the parents and taxpayers step in, this idiocy will only get worse. I would love for one of these faceless administrators to face some hard questions, but it will never happen. "We can´t comment on these actions because of privacy concerns". Fire them now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mazeman, 1/19/2013 7:12:57 PM (No. 9127103)
She cannot be rehabilitated.
I recommend a government-run foster home.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/19/2013 7:30:46 PM (No. 9127123)
Many years ago I had a student (1st grader) put his finger up against another student´s head and "shot" him. The chilling thing is his older brother had recently been shot in the head during a drug deal gone bad. I called him over and told him to knock it off and get busy with his work. The principal did talk with the parents telling them that perhaps the child needed to talk with a professional about what happened to his brother. They said thanks but no thanks. That boy was in and out of trouble his whole life and is currently in jail, again. I had a BB gun as an 8 year old, played cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians and have never felt that I would lose control and kill someone. This little girl didn´t do anything wrong. She should have been told that bringing toys from home is not permitted and let it go. They are making a situation where there doesn´t need to be one. Dare I say it, their over reaction is over kill.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 1/19/2013 7:36:39 PM (No. 9127129)
#6, from the story
"A school official overheard the remark and searched the girl´s backpack and did not find the Hello Kitty gun, he said."
She did NOT have the gun..it was at home.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 1/19/2013 7:42:43 PM (No. 9127135)
Just think about it: five days a week you send your precious children to be controlled, taught and "protected" by these lunatics! These "Adults" are incapable of thinking like normal adults. they are nothing but hysterical, brainwashed, liberal goons!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Moonspinner, 1/19/2013 7:43:46 PM (No. 9127137)
Children cannot have a childhood in America anymore. They must be programmed, brainwashed, and labeled by Big Brother. Those children who do not conform will carry a terrorist label throughout life. Scary. Very scary.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
foxfire, 1/19/2013 7:48:59 PM (No. 9127143)
Wonder why people are homeschooling these days? Here you go.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/19/2013 7:51:10 PM (No. 9127147)
#7 I didn´t read the whole story. My mistake. If the girl did not have the toy at school then the school shouldn´t even be involved.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Cato the elder, 1/19/2013 8:10:39 PM (No. 9127163)
A major part of what is wrong with America is highlighted in the phrase "the girl´s attorney."
She is five years old. And she requires an attorney because, in some important respects, certain school officials are less grown-up than she is.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/19/2013 8:13:35 PM (No. 9127167)
PC Stupidity Gone Wild!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
novakid, 1/19/2013 8:34:00 PM (No. 9127184)
Now I can sleep tighter at night, knowing that a demented 5-year-old will not sneak into my bedroom with her finger.
Have we gone completely insane?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/19/2013 8:56:51 PM (No. 9127214)
What ´school official´ was at the bus stop with these kids and overheard her and why were they there ?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
right-turn, 1/19/2013 9:03:13 PM (No. 9127219)
My opinion for what it worth..... ... This school official needs to be fired due to being insane. No sane person would accuse a five year old of being a terrorist for blowing bubbles from a Hello Kitty toy.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 1/19/2013 9:13:59 PM (No. 9127239)
Remember folks these are the dedicated "educators" who determine which kid is a "learning disability" and most parents will believe it. It´s all the parents fault by the way.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/19/2013 9:46:43 PM (No. 9127272)
Mothers: Stay home. Live on less. Care for your children. Homeschool them. If they must go to school (which is not a good idea), go to school with them and monitor the heck out of everything that goes on there. Otherwise, your children will be just some more confused, uneducated, unsocialized lost adults. We already have more than enough of them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
provide, 1/19/2013 10:05:56 PM (No. 9127289)
When I was in grade school, we used to shoot paper clips with rubber bands. They sure hurt.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
nihtwael, 1/20/2013 11:20:54 AM (No. 9128019)
Forty years ago, everything in today´s headlines would have read like The Onion.
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