Five Year Old Labeled a "Terrorist" For A "Bubble Gun"

We must make this kids march like good little soldiers or they will go to kiddie prison! I am still trying to figure out if I am in Stalinist Russia or Germany in 1942?




A 5-year-old girl was suspended from school earlier this week after she made what the school called a "terrorist threat."

Her weapon of choice? A small, Hello Kitty automatic bubble blower.

The kindergartner, who attends Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in
Pennsylvania, caught administrators' attention after suggesting she and a
classmate should shoot each other with bubbles.

"I think people know how harmless a bubble is. It doesn't hurt," said
Robin Ficker, an attorney for the girl's family. According to Ficker,
the girl, whose identity has not been released, didn't even have the
bubble gun toy with her at school.

The kindergartner was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation
during her 10-day suspension, which was later reduced to two days. The
evaluation deemed the girl normal and not a threat to others, Ficker
said.

The girl's family is considering a lawsuit against the school to get the
blemish - all because of bubbles - off their daughter's record.

"The mother has tried to get the girl in another school since this time,
and they won't take the little girl because of this mark on her
record," Ficker said.

The suspension comes one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School
massacre, which has created a heightened sense of alert at schools
across the country.

The Mount Carmel Area School District told ABC News, "We are confident
that much of the information supplied to the media may not be consistent
with the facts… The Mount Carmel Area School District takes the
well-being and safety of students and staff very seriously."

In a related story:



Washington DC (AP) - A suburban Washington, D.C. family has retained legal
counsel after their six-year-old son was suspended from school for
making a gun gesture with his thumb and forefinger, pointing at another
student and saying “pow.”

The boy, a student at Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver
Spring, Maryland, made the universal kid sign for a gun a week after
20-year-old Adam Lanza massacred 20 young children and six adults at
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

The boy’s parents received a letter explaining that his punishment
would be a one-day suspension, to be served January 2, the first day
students return from winter break, reports WRC-TV.

Robin Ficker, an attorney representing the family, maintains that
school officials overreacted to the pretend gesture. The boy is too
young to comprehend in any meaningful way the significance of his
actions, Ficker argued.

“He doesn’t understand,” Ficker told the NBC affiliate. “The law says he is not old enough to form intent.”

“What they’re doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation of a young, naive six-year-old,” Ficker added, according to the Washington Examiner.

Ficker also said school officials were wrong not to discuss the
situation with the boy’s mother and not to consider the long-term
repercussions of a suspension.

“They could have called the mother in. They didn’t do that,” Ficker
told the Examiner. “They just said, ‘You’re suspended.’ Five years from
now, when someone in to Montgomery County looks at his permanent record,
they’re going to see that he threatened to shoot another student.”

In the letter the boy’s parents received, Assistant Principal Renee
Garraway alluded to the boy’s previous involvement in a comparable
event.

“He was spoken to earlier today about a similar incident,” the letter read.

Ficker alleges that school officials never notified the boy’s parents
of any prior issues. “They won’t say what the similar incident is,” he
told the Examiner.

Garraway declined comment, says the Examiner.

“Generally, in an incident involving the behavior of our younger students, we will make sure that
the student and his family are well-informed of any behavior that needs
to change and understand the consequences if the behavior does not
change,” a spokesperson for the school district told WRC-TV.

The policy of the Montgomery County Public Schools provides a 10-day window to appeal student suspensions.



This woman speaks the truth!



Yet ANOTHER story from politically correct Colorado (full of Californians now):

2nd-grader suspended over imaginary grenade

A seven-year-old boy was
suspended from his elementary school for using an imaginary grenade
while playing "Rescue the World" on the playground.

The story was featured on Fox 31 Denver. Second-grader Alex Evans pretended to throw a grenade into a box full of, in his words, "pretend evil forces."

"I pretended the box, there's something shaking in it, and I go pshhh," Alex explained.

Unfortunately for Alex, his exploits (heroic as they were) went against Mary Blair Elementary School rules. Those rules include no fighting (real or pretend) and no weapons (real or pretend).

Alex's mom commented that she
doesn't think the rule is practical. "Honestly I don’t think the rule is
very realistic for kids this age,” Mandie Watkins said. "I think that
when a child is trying to save the world, I don’t think he should be
punished for it."

Alex is just as perplexed as his mom. "I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended," he told Fox 31.

A similar incident took place last month in Pennsylvania when a fifth-grade girl was reprimanded by school officials for bringing a piece of paper in the shape of gun to class.