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’.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/17/little-boy-expelled-from-school-for-rolling-up-a-piece-of-paper-pointing-it-like-a-gun/#ixzz35CH0OvnF
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.
Source: nypost.com
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What ever happened to kids being able to be kids?
Maybe they should take every childs cell phone too for having games with guns on them………Damn gunophobic idiots!
With you Jim they are taking things to far.
Praying for you.
PRAYING FOR YOU YOUNG MAN AND YOUR FAMILY. THIS SCHOOL SOUNDS LIKE ITS’ FULL OF HILLARY AND OBAMA’S COMMUNISTS AND IT’S A KNOWN FACT COMMUNISTS ARE PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DEFICIENCIES.
this is BS and hope things work out for you all………….
If they don’t have any common sense about this, you don’t want them teaching your child any way !! Hope things work out for the best for them !!!
ARE YOU KIDDING? THIS IS SO WRONG!
Guns are NOT toys…. its not ok to just “play” with them obviously… look at the police these days
What a shame.