Community | January 03, 2013 | 58 comments

Outrageous! -- School suspends first-grader for pointing finger, saying ‘pow’

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A 6-year-old elementary school student has been suspended for forming a gun with his hands, pointing it at a student and saying ‘pow’. Administrators called the action a ‘serious incident'.
The 6-year-old boy was given a one-day suspension from Roscoe Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md. for his pretend gunshot, which attorney Robin Ficker said was unnecessarily harsh.
The boy’s family received a letter from Assistant Principal Renee Garraway in which the gesture was described as “a serious incident”, the Washington Examiner reported.
“[He] threatened to shoot a student. He was spoken to earlier today about a similar incident,” the letter said. The family does not know what this ‘similar incident’ is and claims they have never been informed of any previous problems regarding their child.
“It just shows the overreaction,” Ficker said.
“They could have called the mother in. They didn’t do that. They just said, ‘You’re suspended.’ Five years from now, when someone in Montgomery County looks at his permanent record, they’re going to see that he threatened to shoot another student,” the attorney added.
The ruling can be appealed within 10 days of the incident and there is a conference planned to discuss the matter on Jan. 2 – the day students return to school.
The gun gesture occurred one week after 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. – 20 of which were children. The massacre was the second-deadliest school shooting in US history and shook up the nation during the holiday season. Across the US, parents and students became fearful of gun violence and mourned the loss of so many young children.
Making a gun gesture shortly after the Sandy Hook shooting may seem insensitive, but the 6-year-old may not have understood the implications of his seemingly harmless action.
“He doesn’t understand,” Ficker told NBC4. “The law says he is not old enough to form intent.”
Dana Tofig, spokesman for Montgomery County Schools, told NBC that she could not comment on individual cases.
“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,” she said.
Another spokesperson for the school district told the Examiner that parents are informed of incidents in which students’ learning environments are affected or in which other students feel unsafe. The elementary school did not indicate any feelings of endangerment felt by the other student.
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58 comments // Outrageous! -- School suspends first-grader for pointing finger, saying ‘pow’

  • Paratus
  • Mishima
  • hombre76
    • +1
      hombre76  
    • Mishima:

      As always Mish you demonstrait susinctly why the republican party hase lost all credibility on any subject. Way to overreact and hurle unfounded partisan attacks. Bravo.

    • 4 months ago
  • Mishima
  • Forgotten_Echo
    • +2
      Forgotten_Echo  
    • Mishima:

      Hmpfh .... what complete and total ignorance! For millions of yes parents, which income do we forego in order to homeschool our children. Who are we to ask for assistance with the fees of homeschooling, and the assistance to maintain a living while foregoing a much needed income?

      As for the book itself, ... , looks like bullshit conservative fluff.

    • 4 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -2
      Mishima [removed]  
    • Forgotten_Echo:

      {For millions of yes parents, which income do we forego in order to homeschool our children.}

      By "yest parents," I take it you mean those who would homeschool. Correct me if I am mistaken.

      There are a multitude of variations of homeschooling. Parents take turns; children are homeschooled only part of the day while attending GOVERNMENT schools another part; parents do some work at home. I think many have the image of a mother staying at home and teaching her children all day. That is not how it has to work at all.

      Another consideration is the priorities: Does one put that flat-screen TV and new car ahead of the children's being homeschooled? It is a choice to make.

      The best solution, of course, would be vouchers used correctly.

    • 4 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -3
      Mishima [removed]  
    • Forgotten_Echo:

      {what complete and total ignorance!}

      Another post that adds to congenial and mature discussion with mutual respect. (Sarcasm)

      The truth is that I know a lot about homeschooling. And how the Left-winger policies in schools aim at the feminization of our boys. This is not only in schools but Left-wingerism in general. Liberals denounce what were considered for centuries and centuries - THOUSANDS of years - masculinity and its virtues.

    • 4 months ago
  • Forgotten_Echo
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      Forgotten_Echo  
    • Mishima:

      my mistake, "us parents" .... and for millions of us at this current time, it is the choice between 3 meals a day or 2, whether we can afford the soap, toilet paper, tissue and such which doesn't cause rashes or we have to get the cheaper crap which doesn't go as far and the additives or harsh on the kids skin.

    • 4 months ago
  • Forgotten_Echo
  • Forgotten_Echo
  • Mishima
    • -2
      Mishima [removed]  
    • Forgotten_Echo:

      With rare exceptions, people live the lives that they have chosen.

      Their lives are an accumulation of a series of choices, good ones and bad. It is not the "fault" of capitalists, not because of corporations, and people are not victims. They VOLUNTARILY choose and become a result of the many choices over years and years.

    • 4 months ago
  • Mishima
  • Mishima
  • MotherForTruth
  • MotherForTruth
  • jim_b
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      jim_b  
    • Mishima:

      Homeschooling is the only future potential for the republican party to create members and new voters. How else will you be able to pack sociopathic levels of hatred, fear, superiority complex, egomania, greed and contempt for Mexicans, blacks, browns, yellows, reds, women, the gay, transgenders, educated people, education, compassion, humanity, science, reality, truth and liberals ... all into one little pointy head.

      No wonder Ronnie Reagan died believing he was a fungus ... who could remember all that hateful shit?

    • 4 months ago
  • Mishima
  • jim_b
    • +1
      jim_b  
    • Mishima:

      I see you cannot directly respond so you make shit up that I never said or suggested. I love that you are free to be as right wing as you are led. The billionaire appreciates your posts and we appreciate you picking up our garbage once a week, truly beloved by all.

    • 4 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima [removed]  
    • jim_b:

      You just wrote:

      "I see you cannot directly respond so you make shit up that I never said."

      Well, this is what you wrote:

      "Homeschooling is the only future potential for the republican party to create members and new voters. How else will you be able to pack sociopathic levels of...."

      You can play word games, of course. But that was a direct attack on homeschooling. You did not write in a cogent, reasonable or mature fashion about WHY you demean homeschooling in your inimical manner, but simply try to write what you apparently think are "clever" ripostes to my comment about homeschooling.

      Then you write a scathing jeremiad about Republicans.

      If you are against homeschooling, please state your case as an adult. i would appreciate that. Otherwise, there is nothing to which I can respond. The vulgar attacks are quite tiresome.

    • 4 months ago
  • jim_b
  • Mishima
  • Paratus
    • +1
      Paratus  
    • hombre76:

      Na, your buddy Mish is right on target. Kids can't be kids in schools anymore. It has been that way since my boys were in elementary school. All the school wants is for the children to walk around like zombies and not be any type of problem but perish the thought that they be kids.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • Mishima:

      "With rare exceptions, people live the lives that they have chosen."

      Could not have said it better myself. We are the controllers of our fate. This does fly in the face of the liberal mentality that creates victimhood, racism and entitlements from nothing.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paratus
  • Mishima
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      Mishima [removed]  
    • Paratus:

      {We are the controllers of our fate. This does fly in the face of the liberal mentality that creates victimhood, racism and entitlements from nothing.}

      Liberals proclaim that everything is a result of SOCIETY. not individual choice. In one believe that convenient myth, then one has an excuse for personal failures. Also, it forms the rationale for social engineering.

    • 4 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • CreditFigaro
    • +2
      CreditFigaro  
    • This kind of complete garbage drives me insane.

      Teachers need to learn that there are situations where you need to just let shit slide.

      Poor kid.

    • 4 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • ringinginmyears
  • jim_b
  • jackhole
  • jackhole
  • dugdog47
  • jackhole
  • Mishima
  • jackhole
  • EmperorThan
  • thedirtman
  • youngdebater
    • +2
      youngdebater  
    • This is just overreacting, silly, and wrong in many ways. He's a 6 year old kid making a gun gesture, and saying pow. Are you sure he's not just playing cops and robbers?

    • 4 months ago
  • alexandrekBack
  • Culdee
  • Ricky84
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      Ricky84  
    • Uh oh looks like we got a little gun nut on our hands. Someone should thoroughly berate that little monster for not having the skill to talk his way out of a make-believe altercation.

    • 4 months ago
  • bailey78
  • dugdog47
  • lightningthunderfox
    • +3
      lightningthunderfox  
    • better put that kid on some drugs fast. and dont worry the juvenile system will take a hold of this child and keep him till hes 18 then he will have a healthy start in to prison industry.

    • 4 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  
    • lightningthunderfox:

      I hear you, and understand your sarcasm. I have seen the "benefits" of juvenile system where judges get kickbacks, prosecutors get funding and lawyers get business. I recall reading about one district attorney's office who hired a new prosecutor who's husband is a defense attorney and takes all court appointed cases in the same district.

    • 4 months ago
  • Vierotchka
  • MotherForTruth
    • +1
      MotherForTruth  
    • Vierotchka:

      In my opinion even a detention is over the top. When emotions are suppressed they will find a way to come out much later and much stronger. The respect and compassion towards one another can not be replaced with fear.

    • 4 months ago
  • noxidereus
    • +4
      noxidereus  
    • “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”

      This about sums up the purpose of American school systems -- to create obedient workers/citizens (slaves) who fear authority... or else they are doomed by the system to fail.

    • 4 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • MotherForTruth
  • onemale
  • remanns
    • +1
      remanns  
    • I do not hold " public education " in generically high regard.
      While there ARE certainly bright spots,.....the whole thing should be reprogrammed and then rebooted.

      ( Even without "garbage" going IN,......well . . . . )

    • 4 months ago
  • bailey78
    • +4
      bailey78  
    • Look it is called brainwashing. They start on the very youngest and work to kill their selfwill. They break them and try to mold them to fit in a place. That is why so many are on Pharm Drugs. They are to smart or already have a will of their own to think for themselves. Big corperations are scared of a thinking public.

      Those in public office are scared of a self thinking public.

    • 4 months ago
  • remanns
  • noxidereus
  • MotherForTruth
    • +7
      MotherForTruth  
    • Dear Mothers, Fathers and fellow Americans,

      We must stop this abuse of our children. We have fallen victims of the system that works against us. There is nearly nothing left of our basic freedoms and liberties. Our children are conditioned to be in constant fear, and raised to be slaves where the government and corporations control what they eat, think and consume.

      We must stop this abuse!

      Sincerely,
      Mother

    • 4 months ago
  • noxidereus

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