6-year-old suspended for shooting "Pretend" Bow and Arrow

[Tychus]

They aren't, really. Teachers and school admin staff have very little means to actually punish any students. Even things like detention don't work any more, because parents protest because it interferes with extracurriculars.

i don't disagree necessarily, but don't suspensions interfere with education? missed days is missed instruction, no? though for a 6 year old it's probably not as impactful as missing time in a tougher STEM AP course (or whatever).

[Santti]

i don't disagree necessarily, but don't suspensions interfere with education? missed days is missed instruction, no? though for a 6 year old it's probably not as impactful as missing time in a tougher STEM AP course (or whatever).

It does interfere with the troublesome kids education, but the schools/teachers don't always have the necessary resources/tools/authority required to do anything about it, so they make it the parents problem to fix the kids, and hopefully come back less disruptive. Suspensions are there to protect the education for the rest of the class. Our schools, for example, had teachers and small classrooms just for the more disruptive individuals.

And Endus, just out of curiosity, I remember reading you were a teacher? What do you teach?

[oxymoronic]

'Murica, land of the free. Where anyone can own and carry a real gun anywhere, but shooting an imaginary gun will get you punished.

you sound ignorant. not all people can own a gun, and many buildings (federal comes to mind) do not allow firearms of any kind. just garbage bro, the shit you spewing is just garbage.

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i don't disagree necessarily, but don't suspensions interfere with education? missed days is missed instruction, no? though for a 6 year old it's probably not as impactful as missing time in a tougher STEM AP course (or whatever).

very few stem ap kids are being suspended across america... that is not a problem. one of the problems is we spend too much time (resources) on the losers and not enough on the AP kids.

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Weirdos. Is that the full story though or is the kid being spited for having a history of being a troublemaker?
(Not that it would make it any better, just trying to understand the thought process).

what do you mean? you call this weird yet have other crazy liberal agendas that the rest of common sense types think is weird. is like one religion calling another weird... no, you all are fucking weirdos. ok? this is just a liberal policy taken to the extreme like many are.

[TwoNineMarine]

This kind of stuff is abject nonsense. If he'd thrown an actual rock at someone, that's probably reason for a suspension, even if they were playing. If he'd been "threatening" someone with an imaginary weapon, when they didn't want to play, that's not okay either. But this was a pretend bow, with kids he was playing with.

Zero tolerance is a concept that only works for people who don't understand the concepts of "context" and "shades of gray". They don't want to evaluate situations on their merits, so they come up with stupidly generic rules that they don't have to think about.

Holy shit I agree with you on something.

Wtf is happening lol

On topic though: That Principal should run for PC Principal.

How pathetic is this? Poor kid must be confused as hell.