12 y/o Boy Gets Suspended for Bringing Toy Gun To Virtual Classroom
- Thread starter 911
- Start date
Pecos
Well-known Member
- Location
- Washington State
C'est Moi
Dishin' it out.
- Location
- Houston Y'all
Just when you think things can't get any more damn ridiculous. 
CarolfromTX
Senior Member
- Location
- Central Texas
Ridiculous!! If I were that kid's parents, I would sue the school, the principal, and the district. The kid was in his bedroom and the teacher saw the toy gun. Did she contact the parents and explain that perhaps he should keep the gun out of the frame? No. She went running to the principal. Did he call the parents? No, straight to the police. It was his bedroom, not a school room. It was a toy, not a real gun. What a load of manure.
I knew a teacher who discovered a kid had accidentally brought a pocket knife to school. He said he didn't realize it was in his pocket. He was a good kid (I had him the following year) but even good kids will lie. So he went to the principal, his mother had to come up to the school, there was a big flap. It was a country school; the farm boys have pocket knives fairly early. What would I have done? I'd have explained that he couldn't bring a knife to school, I'd take it away and put it in my desk drawer, give it to him when school was over, and tell him not to bring it to school again. And if he did, there would be trouble.
I knew a teacher who discovered a kid had accidentally brought a pocket knife to school. He said he didn't realize it was in his pocket. He was a good kid (I had him the following year) but even good kids will lie. So he went to the principal, his mother had to come up to the school, there was a big flap. It was a country school; the farm boys have pocket knives fairly early. What would I have done? I'd have explained that he couldn't bring a knife to school, I'd take it away and put it in my desk drawer, give it to him when school was over, and tell him not to bring it to school again. And if he did, there would be trouble.
Last edited:
Lakeland living
Life is good
- Location
- Ontario Canada
Dittto and @#%^$^$^^$^&...apologies ladies but damn!!!!!
JimBob1952
Senior Member
We are living in crazy times.
Consider:
1) A presidential candidate claims a black man invented the light bulb.
2) A trans female writes a book entitled "In Defense of Looting" and gets interviewed admiringly on NPR.
3) "Protestors" decide that the best way to convince people of the rightness of their cause is to scream at them while they eat dinner.
This is crazy, but crazy is breaking out all over.
Consider:
1) A presidential candidate claims a black man invented the light bulb.
2) A trans female writes a book entitled "In Defense of Looting" and gets interviewed admiringly on NPR.
3) "Protestors" decide that the best way to convince people of the rightness of their cause is to scream at them while they eat dinner.
This is crazy, but crazy is breaking out all over.
CarolfromTX
Senior Member
- Location
- Central Texas
And CNN runs film of a reporter walking in front of burning buildings but the chyron reads "mostly peaceful protests in Portland."
CarolfromTX
Senior Member
- Location
- Central Texas
Exactly. This could have been handled so much better. Apparently the teacher was "triggered" (no pun intended) by the mere sight of a gun. A simple call to the parents could have resolved the issue.
macgeek
Member
toy gun and he did this at his home? so what law did he break? ridiculous. we played cops and robbers all the time as kids with toy guns. OMG the horror. lol.
I recall once as a kid, I was playing army man or cops (all in my mind).... had my camo on and a toy gun.... I was creeping around the outside of our home like the Ninja warrior I am (LOL).... and a neighbor called the cops! LOL. must have looked pretty scary I guess. I darted back inside the house and they never did find "the suspect". I never told mom either.
I recall once as a kid, I was playing army man or cops (all in my mind).... had my camo on and a toy gun.... I was creeping around the outside of our home like the Ninja warrior I am (LOL).... and a neighbor called the cops! LOL. must have looked pretty scary I guess. I darted back inside the house and they never did find "the suspect". I never told mom either.
Last edited:
Isn't it sad what society and the world has come to?
My baby brother ran around the neighbourhood with a smoke-gun rifle, playing cowboys and Indians and bank robbers and whatever else him and his friends used to dream up, and all of his friends had realistic toy guns, too.
It's okay to allow people to gallivant around with real side-arms strapped to their sides, but let's take away a child's toy gun.
What a joke!
JaniceM
Well-known Member
- Location
- still lost between two shores..
ClassicRockr
Well-known Member
Well, folks, "cops and robbers" is no longer played and we no longer live in that "day and age". Actually, there is no reason for this kid, and I blame the parents, to show himself holding this toy gun on a computer. Him, and his parents, should have known better.....period!
I disagree.
America is known for it's gun culture, where everything revolves around the all-mighty gun, so as far as I can see, the boy was taught well!
Monkey see, monkey do.
ClassicRockr
Well-known Member
Ok, but there have been both kids and adults that have been shot/killed by officers that didn't know the handgun was a toy. It can be very hard to tell the difference between a toy and a real in the dark and the red plug can be taken out.
I have an Old West replica .45 6-shooter, that can be used for Old West gunfights (recreations). It looks like a real Colt 45, has no red plug in the end, but does have a steel plug in the middle of the barrel (inside). I showed it to a neighbor once and he said "is that thing loaded or unloaded?" Had to tell him that it's a replica and only fires caps affixed to a blank bullet.
Cops and robbers no longer played? We no longer live in that day and age? How come?
I just recalled a conversation with a woman I dated. She was living with her daughter, son-in-law & their 2 young kids.
I came to their house & her grandson, around 7 years old was shooting at his sister with a pellet gun. He also fired it at me. I mentioned to his mother that there is enough power in them to put an eye out, & maybe that's not the right toy for him.
Her astounding reply: "I know. He's been shooting at oranges on the tree & I keep finding pellets in them & I told him not to."
I said, "Your daughter could end up blind - at 6 years old."
She replied, "I don't always see dark clouds like you do."
She passed "stupid" long ago. Give a child a pellet gun, leave him alone with it & say, "Go play outside."
It got better. I visited them again & when I walked by her car, I could see the grip of the pellet gun sticking out from a jacket on the seat. It caught my eye because it looked so real. I asked my date: "Uh.....what do you think would happen if a cop stopped your daughter & saw that gun when he walked to the driver's door?"
She said, "A cop should know the difference between a real gun & a toy gun."
Yeah.....the apple falls close....
I came to their house & her grandson, around 7 years old was shooting at his sister with a pellet gun. He also fired it at me. I mentioned to his mother that there is enough power in them to put an eye out, & maybe that's not the right toy for him.
Her astounding reply: "I know. He's been shooting at oranges on the tree & I keep finding pellets in them & I told him not to."
I said, "Your daughter could end up blind - at 6 years old."
She replied, "I don't always see dark clouds like you do."
She passed "stupid" long ago. Give a child a pellet gun, leave him alone with it & say, "Go play outside."
It got better. I visited them again & when I walked by her car, I could see the grip of the pellet gun sticking out from a jacket on the seat. It caught my eye because it looked so real. I asked my date: "Uh.....what do you think would happen if a cop stopped your daughter & saw that gun when he walked to the driver's door?"
She said, "A cop should know the difference between a real gun & a toy gun."
Yeah.....the apple falls close....