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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SPECIAL NEEDS? This phrase covers allot…Like a child who has NO PARENTAL control and THINKS teachers are suppose to raise them. I have seen it first hand and they are quick to label a kid who HAS NO RESPECT as SPECIAL NEEDS…Most just NEED A PARENT not a COOL MOM or a COOL FATHER…..we label and medicate kids that just need to be PUNISHED as our Parents did us……
Hell in Maryland the head of schools LIMO DRIVER made 6 figures…LOL how many kids could have benefited from that money? Bitch can drive her or himself…what makes them ROYALTY and sad thing is school STILL are below standards…well not really the democrats LOWERED the standards SO it looks like they improved LOL only things they pass onto society is FUTURE WELFARE AND JAIL BIRDS
Whatever happened to the teacher who sits down with a little boy and explains that pointing something at another person can make that person feel bad and that is something we just don’t do. Talk about shooting from the hip: let’s just suspend the little gangster.
Holder and Obama and there agenda to Defreedom us
How stupid!
Ridiculous!!!
Zero tolerance rules are made for people who have zero ability to make wise decisions.
What part of SPECIAL don’t you understand?
zero tolerance =zero common sense!
let the boy back in school