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.
Source: nypost.com
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Sad that the children have to pay such a heavy price for the politicians lunacy.
It’s the “Why he did it, NOT that he did it.” that they porbably went nuts over. He does it with paper, next, he could bring a real gun. I only say this b/c I know what it is like. Does the boy play video games? He may have been imitating one of the games, but the way people think to day…..,
any tiny little thing you do now days is certain to annoy somebody,,, man what has this nation turned into,,,, a population of politically correct imbeciles
It is sad the radical people take things to the extreme, at the detriment of a child.
Home school!!
No common sense fire them all
Another clusterfu- – by the democrat’s Common Core Bogus B.S. !!!
Idiots vote other idiots into positions of authority.
aww this is bull$#%&!@*
How do they know he wasn’t using it like a ‘spy glass?’ Did they ask him?