Kindergartener interrogated over cap gun, ultimately suspended for 10 days - Polidicks

[quote]The incident happened on Wednesday morning at about 8:30 a.m. on a school bus in Calvert County, Maryland, reports The Washington Post. The kindergartener had brought the toy gun because his friend had brought a water gun the previous day. He later told his mother than he “really, really” wanted his friend to see it.[/quote] [url]http://news.yahoo.com/kindergartener-interrogated-over-cap-gun-until-pees-pants-123613141.html[/url]

What happened to "Put it back in your backpack and don't take it out until school is over"? That's how I deal with kids bringing shit they're not allowed to, unless it's an actual danger like a sharp knife or some shit.

[QUOTE] told the kindergartener’s mother that things would have been even worse had the toy gun been loaded with caps. In that case, the school would have regarded the plaything as an explosive and called the police.[/QUOTE] Sure glad it didn't come to that, police probably would have beat the kid up or something. The governments zero-tolerance policies are absurd. Almost everyday we have stupid cases like this.

Haha, reminds me about how in elementary school me and a couple friends used to light off caps under our desks with scissors. The teacher was practically deaf and never heard it or saw the puff of smoke coming up from our chairs.

Zero tolerance saves the day again! Without it, our schools would be a warzone filled with drugs!

Am I the only one who laughed at "Cowboy style cap gun"? It's like "Cowboy style assault weapon"

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;40873296]Am I the only one who laughed at "Cowboy style cap gun"? It's like "Cowboy style assault weapon"[/QUOTE] Nah, more like "cowboy style assault ak47"

[quote]things would have been even worse had the toy gun been loaded with caps. In that case, the school would have regarded the plaything as an explosive and called the police.[/quote] Think of all the poor innocent ants he could've killed

Has the public school system gone full retard or something?

[QUOTE=Riller;40873263]What happened to "Put it back in your backpack and don't take it out until school is over"? That's how I deal with kids bringing shit they're not allowed to, unless it's an actual danger like a sharp knife or some shit.[/QUOTE] Most of the school staff are zero tolerance liberals who drink the kool-aid the government gives them? I don't get why school staff demonize the fuck out guns. They're giving kids the wrong impression about their rights and a legitimate hobby. Just cause some kid plays with a toy gun, draws a picture of a gun, or eats a poptart into the shape of a gun does not mean they're the next Eric Harris or Adam Lanza.

[QUOTE=Solo Wing;40873380]Has the public school system gone full retard or something?[/QUOTE] This stuff is happening everyday in every western country. Its some kind of epidemic of stupidity within governments and educational systems.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40873764]This stuff is happening everyday in every western country. Its some kind of epidemic of stupidity within governments and educational systems.[/QUOTE] No sorry suspension for a cap gun or a gun shaped pop-tart (or calling the police over a capgun) only happens in the US. [editline]2nd June 2013[/editline] For now.

[QUOTE=Solo Wing;40873380]Has the public school system gone full retard or something?[/QUOTE] Public education in America has gone full retard years ago.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40873764]This stuff is happening everyday in every western country. Its some kind of epidemic of stupidity within governments and educational systems.[/QUOTE] nope

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40873764]This stuff is happening everyday in every western country. Its some kind of epidemic of stupidity within governments and educational systems.[/QUOTE] Certainly doesn't happen at the school I work at. If kids wanna bring toy-guns, we let them. If other kids complain that the toy guns are disturbing them, we tell them to put them away because it's bothering the other kids.

[QUOTE=acds;40873799]No sorry suspension for a cap gun or a gun shaped pop-tart (or calling the police over a capgun) only happens in the US. [editline]2nd June 2013[/editline] For now.[/QUOTE] there was a ban on triangle flapjacks in one school in the UK as it was seen to be dangerous

Back when I was in year 3 or 4 some kid brought a cap gun to school - as far as I remember they took it off him and told him not to bring it again and that was it. He'd even been waving it around and shooting it within the school.

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;40874873]there was a ban on triangle flapjacks in one school in the UK as it was seen to be dangerous[/QUOTE] That is because some kids were throwing them like batarangs or something.

What's wrong with the US schools ever since those shootings happened? They just went full retard.

Wow. I bought an unloaded cap gun to school once when I was in kindergarten and all they did was take it away and give it back to me when the day was over.

in kindergarten we were playing with legos and i made a gun out of legos and everyone freaked out

[QUOTE=Ziron;40873292]Zero tolerance saves the day again! Without it, our schools would be a warzone filled with drugs![/QUOTE] Who knows what he'd pull out next!

I once brought an unloaded cap gun to school, and my teacher gave me some caps. I kid, as if I would leave the house with an unloaded cap gun, crime rates were an all time high back then.

[QUOTE=Riller;40874400]Certainly doesn't happen at the school I work at. If kids wanna bring toy-guns, we let them. If other kids complain that the toy guns are disturbing them, we tell them to put them away because it's bothering the other kids.[/QUOTE] That's because the danish school system isn't absolutely fucking retarded(Most of the time)

For a fucking spud gun? Are you guys serious over there?

[QUOTE=Nemisis116;40875694]For a fucking spud gun? Are you guys serious over there?[/QUOTE] A spud gun is a potato gun right? T'is not what's meant here. They mean the cowboy pistols with little red blasting caps that go poof.

[QUOTE=mobrockers;40875716]A spud gun is a potato gun right? T'is not what's meant here. They mean the cowboy pistols with little red blasting caps that go poof.[/QUOTE] Oh I've had ones of those, its a tiny pathetic little plastic toy that makes a little bang Its just a little toy that sounds like a christmas cracker They are not even slightly threatening

Mine was full metal, suck on that.

I remember at school we used to have fights with glove guns and rocks. A glove gun is a piece of PVC pipe with the finger off of a rubber glove taped to the end.

Why do we have to fucking pussify our kids this much