A 5-year-old student in central Pennsylvania was suspended from kindergarten for threatening to take out her classmates — with bubbles.
According to The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pa., the kindergarten student was grilled by school officials for three hours without her mother being notified.
More from the report:
The girl was initially kicked out for 10 days in what the school categorized as a “terroristic threat,” according to the kindergartner’s mother and confirmed by the family attorney. That suspension was reduced to two days and labeled as a “threat to harm others.”
Their names are being withheld to protect the girl’s identity.
Mount Carmel Superintendent Bernard Stellar on Thursday declined comment, saying it would be a breach of confidence and that he cannot discuss student discipline issues.
The alleged incident occurred Jan. 10, while the girl was waiting in a school bus line.
The weapon of choice isn’t yet included on President Obama’s gun control agenda: a pink Hello Kitty bubble gun.
“This is a good-natured little girl,” the student’s attorney told the paper. “And this shows how hysterical people who work at schools have become since Sandy Hook.”
The girl’s mother said her 5-year-old was told she could go to prison, and had to undergo psychological testing before being allowed to return to school.
“Stupid is as stupid does.” –Forrest Gump
and the rest of the story? The mother took the girl out of school and will homeschool from now on? Or will she just go along to get along and keep her child where she will turn into another …???what do we call them these days?
This can be construed as an attempt by folks anti-gun at heart to so demonize the notion of gun ownership that all “right-thinking” young people automatically agree. Or face the consequences.
The actions in this case violate the Constitutional provision against cruel and unusual punishment, and I’m not joking or hyperventilating. Schools cannot be draconian for something that might not even be a real infraction, but instead might be an attempt at social engineering–because I find it hard to believe, knowing what we do, that what this girl did is going to meet the legal definition of a threat. Thus as far as the punishment–”Shocks the conscience” is I believe the phrase, though Progressives probably think it is just a good day’s work.
I guess we just should be grateful they didn’t take her to Room 101…
…except they did. Does she love Big Brother now?
They are trying to expunge reason – to make everything a matter of emotion. That’s the only form of ‘thinking’ the left are comfortable with. Reality being their enemy and all.
Dependence upon and fear of authority… it’s the left/liberal “progressive” way.
On the other hand if the girl was a bit older and had the capacity to correlate a bubble to a gun she probably would have, with her parents finding it cute and entertaining.
Theres plenty of room to criticize the lacking of common sense AND parents influences on very young children as in this case, who had the mental and rational capacity to threaten to “take out her classmates” with anything.
There are kindergarten children who assault and injure there classroom teachers and administrators these days!
But this isn’t one of them. If she had actually hit a classmate and injured them, her consequence would have been less severe. No “prison time” threat for example.
Have you ever been a classroom teacher to see what goes on in todays classrooms and school facilities? Unless you have, you can’t possibly grasp the reality of all the vile and violent behavior going on from kindergarten through 12th grade. Yes, that included real guns even in kindergarten, real hunting knives, bags of urine and feces to assault teachers and students with and the list serious behaviors and threats goes on and on. I haven’t even gotten to parents vile and violent behaviors!
There you go again, being complacent. “Gosh, the State is all sweet reason and common sense! I think we should give it the benefit of the doubt. After all, there’s a lot of experts in the government who have thought about things like this really hard. I’m sure they wouldn’t do anything to hurt us…”
Your passivity is more troubling than the most aggressive NRA activism.
Yes indeed! Never, do we want to place a parent with any responsibilty to raising their children up responsibly — learning from somewhere to utter a threat to take out your classmates is funny and entertaining for some I suppose. NO such utterance would have come from a young girl like that had her parents raised her properly!
So now we need to check the mental health history of a 5 year old before allowing her to have a Hello Kitty bubble gun?
The girl was threatened with prison. Sounds like a heckuva lawsuit in the making. Child abuse at the very least.
How about a full mental evaluation of every public school employee in America. That would make much more sense to me.
Just another day in the government indoctrination camps.
In the last week there has been at least 3 stories now where very young children have been suspended because of “bubble gun”, loaded pointing finger and saying ‘pow’ and playing cops and robbers. But on Red Eye this week (I think Thursday) it was shown that when the president was revealing his gun control orders he kept pointing for emphesis in such as way as it looked like he was pointing a gun. He did it repeatedly. Should he be ‘suspended’ or better yet…’expelled’ too? These children are only emulating their president!
Home schooling here we come! It will be better for the child anyhow.
The epidemic of Bubblebrain Disease continues to spread among the educrates.