The mother of five-year-old girl is asking for an apology after her daughter was suspended from school in North Carolina for pretending a stick was a gun. (Reuters)
Caitlin Miller’s teachers took her to the principal’s office on Friday and the 5-year-old did not understand why.
She had been playing with her best friends during recess at her Raeford, N.C., school playground, just like any other day. She pretended that her two friends were a king and queen, and that she was in charge of protecting the kingdom. “I was the guard,” Caitlin told WTVD.
Noticing a stick shaped like a gun on the ground, Caitlin picked it up and pretended to shoot intruders entering the kingdom.
But by playing with this stick, her school administrators said, Caitlin was violating school policies.
The 5-year-old was suspended for one day for “turning a stick into a gun and threatening to shoot and kill other students,” the elementary school’s assistant principal wrote in a note to Caitlin’s parents. School officials even attached a picture of the stick she was using, which Caitlin’s mother posted to Facebook.
6-year-old Suspended for Displaying Pretend Roscoe* in Roscoe Elementary School
I guess he should play with dolls instead, is that a large capacity magazine?
A Montgomery County elementary school student was suspended for a pretend gunshot… The 6-year-old, who attends Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, made a gun with his hands, pointed it at another student and said “pow,” according to Robin Ficker, the boy’s attorney. He was given a one-day suspension, with a conference on the matter planned for Jan. 2, the day students return to school from winter break.
* In the dime detective novels, called pulps, a handgun was called (interchangeably) a gun, pistol, piece, GAT, Roscoe.
17-Year-Old Was Told to Put Band-Aids on Her Nipples After Not Wearing a Bra to School
She was told she was “distracting” other students.
That’s either muzzle of a .38 or the starter button on a 32 Ford, been awhile.
Fun With Teachers
Assuming your teacher is an idiot, not a reach, try the following
exercise. You probably recognize the hand sign on the right as
peace sign. It is used by cowards, apologists and liberals
everywhere.It is typically displayed palm forward.
It has a different meaning in Great Britian. Before England got
it's shit together it regularly fought with France and got
punked. I know it's tough to imagine England being France's
bitch.
At any rate England developed the long bow which was able to
defeat French armour. Legend has it that the French retaliated
by snatching up potential bowmen and cutting off the index or
middle finger. Thus crippled the potential bowman could not
shoot at French armour.
At some such battle or another, damn war went on for 100 years,
the English line taunted the French by holding up the middle and
index finger, back of the hand to the French. This was to
demonstrate they were willing and able to fight.
To this day it is the quickest way to empty a pub and start a
brawl.
If your teacher goes all dewey eyed when you give her the "peace
sign" you will know you are on your own.
On the other hand, if she slaps you up side the head so hard you
forget your birthday, when you recover apologise. Then find out
where she is keeping her hideout gun and does she have a backup.
