Let's all hope that the zero tolerance policy of the KCMO School District toward simulated weapons has saved little Tawann Caskey from a life of crime and taught him the inherent danger of a squirt gun.
If only the district had a similarly stringent policy toward an incompetent administration or the insanely high number of Latino dropouts than I would admire their resolve. Sadly, enforcing rules regarding toys is about the only thing they have control over.
I can only hope that someone finds a squirt gun in the possession of the School Board and a few key administrators in order to create a more productive enforcement of the rules at the unsalvagable KC School District.
i have to agree with you 100%. Two things extra from this story.
ReplyDelete1. The KCMSD lady in the story pretty much was your typical out of touch school administrator.
2. The boy who is just learning to read was made to sign a paper detailing the incident without the presence of his parent.
Has common sense really been thrown to the wayside?
I agree that this is absolute bullshit!
ReplyDeleteUnless the kid was actually pointing the squirt gun at someone, holding the gun sideways with one hand and grabbing his crotch with the other hand and calling another first grader a bitch.
It is NEVER too early to stop that crap.
I saw the news story on this last night. I was withholding judgement until I saw "the gun." What a joke. It wasn't even a decent squirt gun. It was one of those crappy squeeze things you win at a carnival. Might as well have been a Capri Sun juice box. I agree with Xavier. The context makes all the difference.
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the story the reporter or the school administrator (I can't remember which) said something about him learning his lesson. What lesson? He's SIX! What did he learn? Old people are scary and overreact to squirting water?
i have to say that "overreacting" to things when kids are little does have an impact, at least in my experience. while i do not agree that it is ethical to have a minor sign a legal document, my hope is that the educators used the event to teach the lesson that real weapons are dangerous to possess and illegal to do so in many cases.
ReplyDeletewhen i was about that age, i recall a very mortified afternoon "thinking" about what i had done, after my mom made a huge deal out of the fact that the daffodil i presented to her was stolen (albeit innocently) from my neighbor's flower bed. i never stole anything again, until i was 19, in college and drunk.
after that, not even from wal-mart, because of an accounting error in my favor, etc./other assorted white-lie money-crimes.
of course, i realize i'm basing all this on the HOPE that the educators (which the star recently said are poorly trained) did a good job.