Now a 5th grader in Philly is suspended

[Dave]

A Philadelphia mother thinks school administrators went too far when her fifth grade daughter brought a paper "gun" to class.
Dianna Kelly spoke with FOX 29 about the school's reaction. According to Kelly, her daughter Melody Valentin, was given a paper gun by her grandfather. The "gun" was a sheet of paper torn and folded to look like a pistol.
When another student saw the "gun," which Melody had thrown in the trash can, the boy alerted the teacher. Kelly says that one teacher went over the top when reprimanding Melody.
"He yelled at me and said I shouldn't have brought the gun to school and I kept telling him it was a paper gun but he wouldn't listen," Melody said.
Kelly said this about the incident to FOX-29:

Why did he threaten my daughter? Why did you stand over my daughter and say that you should call the cops on her? "You can be arrested." Why were you trying to scare her?

Kelly has been keeping Melody home from school since the incident last week. She is looking into enrolling Melody in another school soon.
Last week, a kindergartner was suspended after saying she was going to shoot classmates with her pink Hello Kitty bubble gun. And earlier this month, a six-year-old boy was suspended after making a gun gesture with his hand and saying "pow."


I guess it was a high capacity version.

[Gunner]

must have had room for more than 7 paper clips

[Ghosty]

Every single one of those teachers and principals should all be taken out back and beaten severely with sticks and rocks. This is getting pathetic!

[mahabali]

Good god, we as a society have gone full retard.

[SAnd]

I am totally apposed to government education. I will accept government funding with no control of where it's spent. The only way the government should be allowed involvement in education is to give out vouchers to parents so they can take their kids to the school of their choice. Or to home school. It's their choice if they want to send their kids to a liberal anti gun, gun free, killing zone school.

[Kraven251]

Good god, we as a society have gone full retard.

long time ago

[rondog]

It's a damn good thing I don't have small kids of my own, or I'd go to prison for fucking up some ignorant liberal asshole teacher that treated my kid that way. Scream at my kid and threaten him over a gun drawn on a piece of paper? Or for using his finger and going "pow pow"? You'll be sucking soup through a straw for 6 months after I get done with you.

[DavieD55]

It is a complete lack of common sense. Political correctness run amuck.

[asmo]

Educators trying to demonize anything to do with guns.. Kids will grow up thinking guns are evil and bad..

...old story about a monkey getting hit cold water when he goes to the top of the stairs... he teaches other monkeys to not go up the stairs.. when he dies no one goes up the stairs ---- and no one knows why.

[Ronin13]

I remember way back when I was a young child we would play army on the playground- we even grabbed sticks to use as rifles. But that was then, this is now... now we would have been arrested and charged and then expelled. Shame.