8-year-old Asher Palmer, a special needs boy, was recently suspended from school for rolling up a piece of paper ‘like a gun’ and pointing it at other students.
The Lang School in New York, which is private bastion with an annual tuition of $51,500, specializes in students with language difficulties.
“Asher is exactly the type of student Lang is supposed to be serving,” states Melina Spadone, the boy’s mother. “Why they did this doesn’t make sense.”
It doesn’t make sense because it’s yet another case of the ridiculous vilification of guns by the left – seeking to ‘educate’ a culture that guns are ‘horrifying’.
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She was incensed that Principal Micaela Bracamonte told other staffers in an email that Asher “had a model for physically aggressive behavior in his immediate family.’’
Spadone thinks Bracamonte was referring to her husband because he served in the military during the Kuwait war. If that was the reason for the comment, she said, “I find it offensive and inappropriate.’’
As far as the toy gun is concerned, she said Asher, a first-year student, made it out of a piece of paper after discussing military weapons with his dad. His teachers told him not to point it at anyone, and he obeyed for a while.
The school claimed Asher also said he’d “kill’’ a girl in a separate incident — a typical argument between youngsters. While her son may have made the threat, Spadone said, people use the word “kill’’ all the time, and it shouldn’t be taken literally.
Spadone, who lives in Hell’s Kitchen, said the private school in lower Manhattan is supposed to help with social-behavioral issues of kids like Asher, who has been diagnosed with ADHD and problems communicating.
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some people need to chill and grow up
No common sense, and money.
Sillyyyyyness
The paper gun must have been loaded with lethal spit wads. Look at the statistics. Millions of school children have been killed by spit wads and paper guns, especially when the armed student pointed the paper gun and said “POW”. When I think that it has gotten as asinine as it can get, some school administration trumps the last idiocy.
we used to use sticks as guns…what is wrong with this country
I will lend him my AR next time and see how it goes down.
Everything is going to H_ll in a hand basket an not going to get better but worst…….
Teach the kids how to throw spit balls instead of the human thing with a paper gun!!! see who can spit them on the windows or ceilings… this is fun play…GET OVER IT TEACHERS…TEACH THE THREE R’S AND THE KIDS BE KIDS…HE’S NOT HURTING ANYONE…A GREAT GRANNY TALKING HERE….
heres a good example of what im talking about.
Come on ppl… We are becoming way too sensitive!!!!