Ohio student points finger like gun, is suspended

[jimnyc]

Here we go again, stupid zero tolerance instead of common sense crap.


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A central Ohio principal says she suspended a 10-year-old boy from school for three days for pretending his finger was a gun and pointing it at another student's head.

The boy's father says it's the adults who are acting childish for suspending the boy from Devonshire Alternative Elementary School in Columbus last week.

The fifth-grader said he was "just playing around." But district spokesman Jeff Warner told The Columbus Dispatch that Devonshire Principal Patricia Price has warned students about pretend gun play numerous times this year, and everyone should know the rules by now. He said warnings have been included in three newsletters sent home with kids.

Warner says the boy put his finger to the side of the other student's head and pretended to shoot "kind of execution style."

"The kids were told, `If you don't stop doing this type of stuff, there would be consequences,'" Warner said. "It's just been escalating."


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FINGER_GUN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-04-06-53-55

[Little-Acorn]

But but but... you don't know if the finger was loaded! :confused0058:

[fj1200]

Here we go again, stupid zero tolerance instead of common sense crap.


The fifth-grader said he was "just playing around." But district spokesman Jeff Warner told The Columbus Dispatch that Devonshire Principal Patricia Price has warned students about pretend gun play numerous times this year, and everyone should know the rules by now. He said warnings have been included in three newsletters sent home with kids.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FINGER_GUN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-04-06-53-55

That doesn't sound like zero tolerance.

[tailfins]

The kid was just using the wrong finger. Guns are scary, birds are cute.


that Devonshire Principal Patricia Price

The underlined is all I need to know.

[jimnyc]

That doesn't sound like zero tolerance.

It doesn't state that THIS child was warned. And it's still stupid regardless, as suspending children for such harmless things is harming them worse than just letting them be kids like the millions and millions prior to them. And even with warnings, they can still handle it differently and have a level of tolerance that meets the "crime".

[aboutime]

And the HITS keep on comin'!

Seems like, almost every day, or week now. We get to hear, and read more stories about

the absolute STUPIDITY of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS...being abused.

This entire nation is becoming a CESS POOL of Ignorance, and Stupidity.