Two Virginia 7 year olds have been suspended from school for pretending that their pencils were guns.
And the idiot school board representative, instead of saying-hey, you know what-that was a goofball move-we're gonna rescind that and take a look at these stupid rules-we get the following:
"Suffolk Public Schools spokeswoman Bethanne Bradshaw said a pencil is
considered a weapon when it’s pointed at someone in a threatening way
and gun noises are made."
“Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about
shootings in schools or shootings in the community,” Bradshaw said.
“Kids don’t think about ‘Cowboys and Indians’ anymore, they think about
drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television
news every day.”
"Bradshaw said the policy has been in place for at least two decades.
It also bans drawing a picture of a gun and pointing a finger in a
threatening manner."
One of the kids' dads is a marine. Which means he actually used REAL GUNS. Which means his kid is probably not an effette, metrosexual who goes to knitting classes. Which means-as a boy-he might want to pretend to play with guns - i.e: normal boy behaviour.
Exit questions:
How are pencil bullets calibrated?
Do you need a licence in America to own a fully automatic pencil?
How many mass shootings have been caused by pencils?
Or semi-automatic fingers for that matter?
(DON'T ANSWER THOSE OK BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAR YOU BECAUSE I AM BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL!!)
