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AUTHORITIES OUT-OF-CONTROL: School Children Reprimanded for harmless play labeled as 'Violent'
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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 69359" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p>[ATTACH=full]838[/ATTACH]</p><p><strong>Virginia second-grader Christopher Marshall was suspended from school after he held his pencil like it was a gun and made shooting sounds.</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://Where would the Founding Fathers stand on a right to bear pencils? A second-grader was suspended from school for two days for pretending his pencil was a gun while playing with his friend in class Friday. "It's an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence into the classroom, even if it's violent play," school spokesperson Bethanne Bradshaw said. During a game of make-believe, Christopher Marshall, 7, imagined he was a Marine like his father Paul Marshall, who thinks his kid was just being a typical boy. He and his wife Wendy Marshall said the Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Va. is overreacting. “I find it ridiculous that he cannot use his imagination and be a boy,” Wendy Marshall told the Daily News. “When my son wants to pretend he’s a Marine or a Navy pilot like his granddad or an auto mechanic like his other granddad, I don’t think that should be an issue.” Bradshaw said that the school has a zero-tolerance policy for weapons. She thinks that a pencil can be considered a weapon if someone makes gun noises while pointing the weapon at another person in a threatening way. Christopher said that he is sorry and will not pretend to play with guns in school any more. His parents were quick to point out that, according to the suspension note, Christopher stopped when the teacher told him to do so. The other student, also 7, was suspended as well. Paul Marshall understands that people feel uneasy about guns in schools considering the onslaught of recent school shootings but feels that Driver Elementary School failed to use common sense. "It's gone too far. Enough is enough," he told local station Fox 43. "Where do we draw the line? A pencil - was it sharpened? Was it now? Is it a No. 2? I mean what's the big deal? He's just being a kid." This is only the latest in a series of gun-play suspensions that have occurred since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. A kindergartener from Hopkinton, Mass. got suspended for bringing a toy gun to class in March and another boy was sent home from his Hyannis, Mass. elementary school for building a gun out of Legos in January." target="_blank">http://Where would the Founding Fathers stand on a right to bear pencils? A second-grader was suspended from school for two days for pretending his pencil was a gun while playing with his friend in class Friday. "It's an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence into the classroom, even if it's violent play," school spokesperson Bethanne Bradshaw said. During a game of make-believe, Christopher Marshall, 7, imagined he was a Marine like his father Paul Marshall, who thinks his kid was just being a typical boy. He and his wife Wendy Marshall said the Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Va. is overreacting. “I find it ridiculous that he cannot use his imagination and be a boy,” Wendy Marshall told the Daily News. “When my son wants to pretend he’s a Marine or a Navy pilot like his granddad or an auto mechanic like his other granddad, I don’t think that should be an issue.” Bradshaw said that the school has a zero-tolerance policy for weapons. She thinks that a pencil can be considered a weapon if someone makes gun noises while pointing the weapon at another person in a threatening way. Christopher said that he is sorry and will not pretend to play with guns in school any more. His parents were quick to point out that, according to the suspension note, Christopher stopped when the teacher told him to do so. The other student, also 7, was suspended as well. Paul Marshall understands that people feel uneasy about guns in schools considering the onslaught of recent school shootings but feels that Driver Elementary School failed to use common sense. "It's gone too far. Enough is enough," he told local station Fox 43. "Where do we draw the line? A pencil - was it sharpened? Was it now? Is it a No. 2? I mean what's the big deal? He's just being a kid." This is only the latest in a series of gun-play suspensions that have occurred since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. A kindergartener from Hopkinton, Mass. got suspended for bringing a toy gun to class in March and another boy was sent home from his Hyannis, Mass. elementary school for building a gun out of Legos in January.</a></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/va-7-year-old-suspended-gun-play-article-1.1337342" target="_blank">Zero tolerance: Virginia 2nd-grader suspended for pretending his pencil was a gun</a></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Where would the Founding Fathers stand on a right to bear pencils?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">A second-grader was suspended from school for two days for pretending his pencil was a gun while playing with his friend in class Friday.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">"It's an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence into the classroom, even if it's violent play," school spokesperson Bethanne Bradshaw said.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">During a game of make-believe, Christopher Marshall, 7, imagined he was a Marine like his father Paul Marshall, who thinks his kid was just being a typical boy. He and his wife Wendy Marshall said the Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Va. is overreacting.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">“I find it ridiculous that he cannot use his imagination and be a boy,” Wendy Marshall told the Daily News. “When my son wants to pretend he’s a Marine or a Navy pilot like his granddad or an auto mechanic like his other granddad, I don’t think that should be an issue.”</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Bradshaw said that the school has a zero-tolerance policy for weapons. She thinks that a pencil can be considered a weapon if someone makes gun noises while pointing the weapon at another person in a threatening way.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Christopher said that he is sorry and will not pretend to play with guns in school any more. His parents were quick to point out that, according to the suspension note, Christopher stopped when the teacher told him to do so.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The other student, also 7, was suspended as well.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Paul Marshall understands that people feel uneasy about guns in schools considering the onslaught of recent school shootings but feels that Driver Elementary School failed to use common sense.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">"It's gone too far. Enough is enough," he told local station Fox 43. "Where do we draw the line? A pencil - was it sharpened? Was it now? Is it a No. 2? I mean what's the big deal? He's just being a kid."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">This is only the latest in a series of gun-play suspensions that have occurred since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">A kindergartener from Hopkinton, Mass. got suspended for bringing a toy gun to class in March and another boy was sent home from his Hyannis, Mass. elementary school for building a gun out of Legos in January.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 69359, member: 2770"] [ATTACH=full]838[/ATTACH] [B]Virginia second-grader Christopher Marshall was suspended from school after he held his pencil like it was a gun and made shooting sounds.[/B] [URL='http://Where would the Founding Fathers stand on a right to bear pencils? A second-grader was suspended from school for two days for pretending his pencil was a gun while playing with his friend in class Friday. "It's an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence into the classroom, even if it's violent play," school spokesperson Bethanne Bradshaw said. During a game of make-believe, Christopher Marshall, 7, imagined he was a Marine like his father Paul Marshall, who thinks his kid was just being a typical boy. He and his wife Wendy Marshall said the Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Va. is overreacting. “I find it ridiculous that he cannot use his imagination and be a boy,” Wendy Marshall told the Daily News. “When my son wants to pretend he’s a Marine or a Navy pilot like his granddad or an auto mechanic like his other granddad, I don’t think that should be an issue.” Bradshaw said that the school has a zero-tolerance policy for weapons. She thinks that a pencil can be considered a weapon if someone makes gun noises while pointing the weapon at another person in a threatening way. Christopher said that he is sorry and will not pretend to play with guns in school any more. His parents were quick to point out that, according to the suspension note, Christopher stopped when the teacher told him to do so. The other student, also 7, was suspended as well. Paul Marshall understands that people feel uneasy about guns in schools considering the onslaught of recent school shootings but feels that Driver Elementary School failed to use common sense. "It's gone too far. Enough is enough," he told local station Fox 43. "Where do we draw the line? A pencil - was it sharpened? Was it now? Is it a No. 2? I mean what's the big deal? He's just being a kid." This is only the latest in a series of gun-play suspensions that have occurred since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. A kindergartener from Hopkinton, Mass. got suspended for bringing a toy gun to class in March and another boy was sent home from his Hyannis, Mass. elementary school for building a gun out of Legos in January.'][/URL] [B][SIZE=6][URL='http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/va-7-year-old-suspended-gun-play-article-1.1337342']Zero tolerance: Virginia 2nd-grader suspended for pretending his pencil was a gun[/URL][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Where would the Founding Fathers stand on a right to bear pencils?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]A second-grader was suspended from school for two days for pretending his pencil was a gun while playing with his friend in class Friday.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]"It's an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence into the classroom, even if it's violent play," school spokesperson Bethanne Bradshaw said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]During a game of make-believe, Christopher Marshall, 7, imagined he was a Marine like his father Paul Marshall, who thinks his kid was just being a typical boy. He and his wife Wendy Marshall said the Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Va. is overreacting.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]“I find it ridiculous that he cannot use his imagination and be a boy,” Wendy Marshall told the Daily News. “When my son wants to pretend he’s a Marine or a Navy pilot like his granddad or an auto mechanic like his other granddad, I don’t think that should be an issue.”[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Bradshaw said that the school has a zero-tolerance policy for weapons. She thinks that a pencil can be considered a weapon if someone makes gun noises while pointing the weapon at another person in a threatening way.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Christopher said that he is sorry and will not pretend to play with guns in school any more. His parents were quick to point out that, according to the suspension note, Christopher stopped when the teacher told him to do so.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The other student, also 7, was suspended as well.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Paul Marshall understands that people feel uneasy about guns in schools considering the onslaught of recent school shootings but feels that Driver Elementary School failed to use common sense.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]"It's gone too far. Enough is enough," he told local station Fox 43. "Where do we draw the line? A pencil - was it sharpened? Was it now? Is it a No. 2? I mean what's the big deal? He's just being a kid."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]This is only the latest in a series of gun-play suspensions that have occurred since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]A kindergartener from Hopkinton, Mass. got suspended for bringing a toy gun to class in March and another boy was sent home from his Hyannis, Mass. elementary school for building a gun out of Legos in January.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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