5-Year-Old Girl Suspended For Making a 'Terrorist Threat' -- With Her Hello Kitty Bubble Gun??
5-Year-Old Girl Suspended For Making a 'Terrorist Threat' -- With Her Hello Kitty Bubble Gun
It's not news that there is a zero tolerance policy in schools over a
whole range of issues -- kids are punished for everything from eating
mints to a wearing a weird hairstyle.
So I guess this story shouldn't come as a total surprise. But it's
still unbelievably wacky. A 5-year-old girl was reportedly suspended
from kindergarten for threatening to shoot another child -- with her Hello Kitty bubble gun!
The unidentified little girl was suspended for making a "terrorist threat" with her bubble gun. Apparently the girl had suggested that she and a friend "shoot each other" -- um, with bubbles -- and the girl didn't even have the gun on her at school.
She was originally suspended for 10 days, but after the family lawyered up, it was reduced to two. But the family wants this incident wiped from her record entirely. Says the family lawyer:
This little girl is the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania. This logic, which was not said in malice, came from the mind of this beautiful 5-year-old child who was playing with her friends, whom she hugs every day.
All I know is what my daughter has told me and she said she was told she could go to jail, which is a very traumatic thing for a 5-year-old to live with.
The school should have done *NOTHING*!!! This is INSANE! She was talking to her friend about PLAYING!!!!!!!!!
Here's the thing - She didn't even take the thing to school! She and her friend were TALKING about shooting each other with bubbles... BUBBLES! Not to cause harm to anyone, but to PLAY WITH BUBBLES!
way out of line, it's gotten nuts......she's five and playing with a pink bubble gun.......really???.......I'm a photographer and I say I 'shoot people' all the time, should I be arrested??? hmmmm insane........funny how the whole world has to change for a few rotten apples.........I always believed majority ruled???
I think that is ridiculous!! She is a child and she was talking to another kid about it. Jeez.
A kid at our school was escorted out of the building and suspended for 4 days for using his hand as a gun and saying bang bang. Apparently he was telling another friend about a video game he played and one of the teachers heard only the bang bang part. So this kid was subjected to being seen escorted out of school by the cops and his mom. Sometimes I think things are being taken a little too far. If a kid is legitimately threatening people then yes suspend them but if they are playing around and not hurting anyone then I say no. Esp a little kid.
Audi aka LostOsbourne
That's so ridiculous. That little girl had no ill intent. The school could have told her that she shouldn't talk about stuff like that, and that guns, even bubble guns, aren't allowed in school. If it was REALLY a huge deal, they could have called the parents. This is a situation in which discretion and logic should have been used.
My son doesn't play with guns, nor toys what have guns on them. So when classmates threaten to shoot him or play shoot on the play ground I do get a bit irriatated, especially when he pretended to shoot his sister, but by no means would I expect a child to be suspended, perhaps talked to but not suspended. Yes I am posting as anon cause I know mothers are gonna rage over it being silly and stupid and I don't want my parenting pulled into question, just wanted to share my opinion.
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on Jan. 21, 2013 at 3:03 PM