Elementary school beginning toy gun turn-in program

[Jeff]

How ridicules can one be ? Leave it to the liberals of California to show us just how ridicules some can be , first we are suspending kids for eating there pop tarts into the shape of a gun and now this , this has got to be a all time low. I bet there isn't many if any men that could say they never had a toy gun of some sort when they where a kid , heck most of the woman probably played with one also and we all turned out fine , with all the scandals going on right now we are worried about Nerf guns :eek:

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea (http://www.ijreview.com/2013/06/57836-absurd-california-school-holds-toy-gun-buyback-exchange/): he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/10/Elementary-School-Urges-Students-To-Turn-In-Toy-Guns

[Trinity]

I remember when my boys were babies thinking I was never going to buy them toy guns, because I did not want them playing with guns. Period. Guns are not toys. Then one day at the age of 5 and 3 I noticed them playing army (boys will be boys)... but since they had no toy guns (I refused to buy them) they were using sticks as guns. Needless to say I re-thought my thinking, and decided that instead of banning them I would teach them. Instead of banning, teaching might be a better choice. It might even prevent uh accidental deaths. :cool:

[BillyBob]

The kids should turn in poptarts and demand a book and raffle ticket in exchange.

[Abbey Marie]

This is really getting scary. We aren't too far from those re-education camps that Chinese Communists forced on its people.

[Kathianne]

This is really getting scary. We aren't too far from those re-education camps that Chinese Communists forced on its people.

Can't say there weren't warnings here or in the news. I've posted numerous threads on zero tolerance and the problems with it. Must say, the media hasn't been shy in covering either.

Here's one more:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581435/Are-zero-tolerance-policies-at-school-targeting-harmless-kids.html?pg=all


Are zero-tolerance policies at school targeting harmless kids? Compiled by Eric Schulzke , Deseret News

Published: Tuesday, June 11 2013 12:05 a.m. MDT


School officials around the country have been reacting to the specter of the Sandy Hook shooting by targeting harmless behavior among some very young students, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds argued in a USA Today op-ed (http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/03/glenn-reynolds-schools-guns/2382779/).


The most recent case Reynolds cites was a Maryland kindergartner suspended for 10 days after being interrogated and wetting his pants because he brought an orange-tipped cap gun on the bus to show a friend.


"The 5-year old was suspended Wednesday after showing the orange-tipped toy to a friend on the morning bus ride to school," The Washinton Post reported (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/suspension-scaled-back-for-boy-5-who-brought-cowboy-style-cap-gun-on-school-bus/2013/05/31/5fdab2d6-ca24-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html). "The child told his mother later that he had tucked the cap gun into his backpack that day because he 'really, really' wanted to show it to his friend. The friend had shown him a water gun on a previous bus ride."


Earlier this year, a kindergartner in South Carolina was banned from school property for the rest of the school year after she brought a clear plastic toy gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uNGo5qVzVDA) for show and tell. And in March, a Maryland 7-year old was suspended for nibbling a pop tart (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/student-suspended-for-pop-tart-gun_n_2903500.html) into the shape of a gun. Last week, a school in Hayward, Calif., announced a toy gun buyback (http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23406432/hayward-school-sponsors-toy-gun-exchange), offering a book and a ticket for a bicycle raffle to kids who turn in their toy guns.


"What's up with this?" Reynolds asked in his USA Today piece. "It's not based on any concern with safety. Lego guns, cap guns, bubble guns, nibbled Pop Tarts and fingers are no threat to safety. And the wild overreaction in these cases says there's more going on here than simple school discipline. As I said, who treats a 5-year-old this way? It smacks of fanaticism.


"In fact," Reynolds continued, "it seems like a kind of quasi-religious fanaticism. I think it's about the administrative class — which runs the schools with as little input from parents as possible — doing its best to exterminate the very idea of guns. It's some sort of wacky moral-purity crusade. If a few toddlers have to suffer along the way, that's tough. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."


"The case comes at a time of heightened sensitivity about guns in schools across the country," The Washington Post noted (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/cowboy-style-cap-gun-gets-5-year-old-ousted-from-school-in-calvert-county/2013/05/30/a3a8a178-c93c-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_t witter_washingtonpost) of the 5-year-old being suspended for bringing his orange-tipped cap gun to school. "Locally, children in first and second grade have been disciplined for pointing their fingers like guns and for chewing a Pop Tart-like pastry into the shape of a gun. In Pennsylvania, a 5-year-old was suspended for talking about shooting a Hello Kitty bubble gun that blows soap bubbles."

[fj1200]

Here's one more:


"In fact," Reynolds continued, "it seems like a kind of quasi-religious fanaticism. I think it's about the administrative class — which runs the schools with as little input from parents as possible — doing its best to exterminate the very idea of guns. It's some sort of wacky moral-purity crusade. If a few toddlers have to suffer along the way, that's tough. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581435/Are-zero-tolerance-policies-at-school-targeting-harmless-kids.html?pg=all

Almost smacks of the false child abuse stories from the '90s to me. A different target though of course.

[Voted4Reagan]

The Killing Fields are just over the Horizon....

[red states rule]

How ridicules can one be ? Leave it to the liberals of California to show us just how ridicules some can be , first we are suspending kids for eating there pop tarts into the shape of a gun and now this , this has got to be a all time low. I bet there isn't many if any men that could say they never had a toy gun of some sort when they where a kid , heck most of the woman probably played with one also and we all turned out fine , with all the scandals going on right now we are worried about Nerf guns :eek:

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea (http://www.ijreview.com/2013/06/57836-absurd-california-school-holds-toy-gun-buyback-exchange/): he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.



http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/10/Elementary-School-Urges-Students-To-Turn-In-Toy-Guns

Why are we surprised by this? We are talking about CA and liberals

Liberals always seem to come up with ideas and programs that accomplish NOTHING but make the liberals feel very good about themselves

[Gaffer]

This is the communist propaganda being drilled into the very young. This is, after all, the USSA. Anyone that thinks they can reduce govt and get their rights back by peaceful legal means is foolish.

[red states rule]

http://polination.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/guns-and-gun-free-zones.jpg?w=500

[tailfins]

Do broken toy guns qualify?

[red states rule]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FYpYmvAspMI/TUrn2uMTMcI/AAAAAAAAADA/le69xZKTydA/s320/gun_free_zone_sign.jpg

[BillyBob]

I reckon it's up to the parents to raise their kids however they see fit. I was raised on guns and my boys were raised on guns. I assume they'll raise their kids on guns and so on.

The problem is that the government wants to raise your kids and there are plenty of parents who are willing to let them do just that. The best thing a loving parent can do is to yank their kids out of public schools and find an alternate way to educate them, homeschooling being the first choice.

[red states rule]

I reckon it's up to the parents to raise their kids however they see fit. I was raised on guns and my boys were raised on guns. I assume they'll raise their kids on guns and so on.

The problem is that the government wants to raise your kids and there are plenty of parents who are willing to let them do just that. The best thing a loving parent can do is to yank their kids out of public schools and find an alternate way to educate them, homeschooling being the first choice.

You damn gun nut!!!!!!!

Raising kids with guns is blatant child abuse you red neck hick!!!!

***I am saving Gabby time and making her post for her***

[BillyBob]

You damn gun nut!!!!!!!

Raising kids with guns is blatant child abuse you red neck hick!!!!

***I am saving Gabby time and making her post for her***


That's a pretty good impersonation. I would say that NOT raising kids with guns is child abuse. They won't have been taught proper gun safety and etiquette under your supervision that could one day save the lives of themselves and their families.

I had my own shotgun at age 12 and when I turned 16 my Dad gave me a pistol to keep in my room for home defense. When I graduated High School he gifted me with a .357. Guns are a way of life in the US but the libs are trying to put an end to that.

[red states rule]

No wonder the country is so f'd up when it come to guns when we have crazy libs like Chris sneering his hate over th air towards law abiding gun owners





According to Chris Matthews, pro-Second Amendment Americans are weird, not "normal," "obsessed" and probably racist. In a segment on Thursday's Hardball, the cable host played a new National Rifle Association ad attacking Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. Matthews lectured, "The gun people, they think about nothing else. And they never change their minds, never change their attitudes and never change the frickin' subject."


Talking to fellow liberal Ron Reagan, the anchor mocked, "How do you keep an interest among normal people that keeps up with that intense, almost, well, obsession that the gun people have?" Unsurprisingly, Matthews jumped to tarring pro-gun-rights Americans as racist. The new NRA commercial features clips of Michael Bloomberg and Barack Obama. The MSNBC host judged, "Ron, do you think there might be a soupcon of ethnic gaming in this, the pictures they put in there? Obama and Bloomberg?"


http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2012/2013-06-13-MSNBC-HB-Matthews.JPGMatthews concluded that the NRA's goal in showing pictures of the African American president and the Jewish mayor was because "it might just turn off people in West Virginia."


Reagan eagerly agreed, "Obama looked awfully dark in that picture. Didn't he?"


Or, perhaps, could the reason be that Obama and Bloomberg don't support the Second Amendment, as far as the NRA sees it?


On April 11, (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/04/11/chris-matthews-compares-pro-gun-senators-jim-crow-racists) Matthews sneered that pro-gun senators are just like "Jim Crow" racists.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/06/13/chris-matthews-weird-gun-people-are-not-normal-obsessed-racist#ixzz2WBUUQ1Yp