1st grader playing Power Rangers suspended for imaginary bow

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http://www.wlwt.com/news/child-pret...d-bow-and-arrow-suspended-for-3-days/36221592

CINCINNATI —A first-grader at Our Lady of Lourdes is serving a three-day suspension for pretending to shoot another student with a bow and arrow.

Martha Miele said she was called Thursday afternoon while at work by Principal Joe Crachiolo.

On Friday, Crachiolo sent a letter home to parents stating in part,

"I have no tolerance for any real, pretend, or imitated violence. The punishment is an out of school suspension."

 

Larry Gude

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When will this come full circle and people starting getting suspended and sanctioned for offending others by being offended?
 

vraiblonde

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We blame the schools but if the parents weren't down with this it wouldn't be happening. It takes almost nothing to get petty little bureaucrats to back down, so a few parents raise hell over these mindless zero-tolerance stunts and I guarantee you they will go away.

Therefore we must assume that these silly punishments are made with full approval of the customer, and mock them instead of the supplier who's just doing a job.
 

Larry Gude

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We blame the schools but if the parents weren't down with this it wouldn't be happening. It takes almost nothing to get petty little bureaucrats to back down, so a few parents raise hell over these mindless zero-tolerance stunts and I guarantee you they will go away.

Therefore we must assume that these silly punishments are made with full approval of the customer, and mock them instead of the supplier who's just doing a job.

It's what we do. We blame drug dealers, gun makers, hookers, bars and cigarette makers. We tend to not like to focus on behavior. :shrug:
 

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b23hqb

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We blame the schools but if the parents weren't down with this it wouldn't be happening. It takes almost nothing to get petty little bureaucrats to back down, so a few parents raise hell over these mindless zero-tolerance stunts and I guarantee you they will go away.

Therefore we must assume that these silly punishments are made with full approval of the customer, and mock them instead of the supplier who's just doing a job.

I wish you were right, but they won't go away. Many times a parent or group of parents have raised a stink about PC zero tolerance, (we have here, I know) and may or may not be settled in one particular incident, but it comes right back at us. Until PC is not just not cool, but way not cool to well more than half the population, it will remain a screwed up system at all levels. There are all kinds of administrators, educators, and staff that revel in their "power" of authority to determine what will be tolerated or not.
 
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Chuckt

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When will this come full circle and people starting getting suspended and sanctioned for offending others by being offended?

It really isn't that simple. Someone might be offended and bring in the real thing because they either felt threatened, need to get one up or because they were offended. They do it to protect everyone's life.
 

littlelady

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It is a shame that our little ones aren't allowed to have imaginations, anymore. Stifle them and make them indoctrinated little robots that can't think for themselves. It is instances like this that a parent needs to assure a child that they did nothing wrong. Out of control PC is an understatement. Can you say - ridiculous?

My generation (baby boomer) played cops and robbers, and cowboys and Indians with little toy guns, etc. We turned out ok.
 
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kom526

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It really isn't that simple. Someone might be offended and bring in the real thing because they either felt threatened, need to get one up or because they were offended. They do it to protect everyone's life.
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Foxtrot ... Over.
 

Larry Gude

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It really isn't that simple. Someone might be offended and bring in the real thing because they either felt threatened, need to get one up or because they were offended. They do it to protect everyone's life.

Yeah, so, OK, wouldn't we THEN have something to worry about? I keep prefacing this point with 'IF' because I'm not sure I can assume we all want freedom and liberty anymore. We seem to want security above all and that means subordinating freedom and liberty and doing away with responsibility. So, IF we want freedom and liberty that means you can play red power ranger and pretend to shoot me with an imaginary bow and arrow and when I go crying to mom about how offended I was she can then tell me that there is a difference between playing and pretending and the real thing and that one is worth being upset over and the other is not.

Otherwise, I go through life being offended at imaginary things and thinking it is others being offensive and they have no right.

By your argument, and my tongue in cheek, semi serious point, your logic extends that by me being offended by your imaginary bow and the 'authorities' being responsible for punishing you for my feeling offended lest I up the ante and go get a real one, you, then, in turn, could then be seen to being offended by my being offended and in response to me getting a real bow you might go get a real gun thus, by that reasoning, they must not only lock you up for the offense I took at your imagination, then must then lock you up for possibly taking offense at my taking offense.

And so on.


That is, simply, madness.
 

BlueBird

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The school did the right thing here. Playing with imaginary weaponry is all fun and games until someone pretends that their eye was shot out. Having to go through life pretending to be blind because of an imaginary child hood injury is no laughing matter. Okay it's late I'm going to bed now.
 
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