Pa. kindergartner suspended for bubble gun remark

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MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. (AP) — A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.

Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days but was reduced to two.

Attorney Robin Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials labeled the girl a "terrorist threat" for the bubble gun remark, made Jan. 10 as both girls waited for a school bus.

Ficker says the girl didn't even have the bubble gun with her and has never fired a real gun. He says she's "the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania."

School district solicitor Edward Greco tells pennlive.com (http://bit.ly/13Nu0QF ) officials are looking into the case. He said Friday school officials aren't at liberty to discuss disciplinary actions.

[mad cow]

Well,she just blew her chance to appear with Obama next year when he outlaws forks or something.

[kathy88]

Public schools.

[tod evans]

Remind me again why public lynchings were made illegal?

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ImplausibleEndeavors ‏@MindOfMo
@ScaredyCats: That 5-year-old can be suspended for remark about soapy-bubble-shooting gun is direct reflection of your COWARDICE & HYSTERIA.

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MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. (AP) — A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.

Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days but was reduced to two.

Attorney Robin Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials labeled the girl a "terrorist threat" for the bubble gun remark, made Jan. 10 as both girls waited for a school bus.

Ficker says the girl didn't even have the bubble gun with her and has never fired a real gun. He says she's "the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania."

School district solicitor Edward Greco tells pennlive.com (http://bit.ly/13Nu0QF ) officials are looking into the case. He said Friday school officials aren't at liberty to discuss disciplinary actions.


Cha-ching, cha-ching.

High-flying, fancy-pants NRA Big Shots (non-producers, whose nifty lifestyles owe to DONATIONS & MEMBER FEES) could righteously come to this family's assistance, SAVE this family's finances (and reputation), and showcase PUBLIC HYSTERIA (which is lighter fluid to Mob Rule)...be Good Guys in DEED rather than in JUST WORDS.

[CaptUSA]

Well,she just blew her chance...Lol.. + rep for the pun.

[Ronulus]

Remind me again why public lynchings were made illegal?

Because the school would have attempted to lynch the child. How dare she say the word 'gun' in a school....... especially one that blows bubbles.

[tod evans]

Because the school would have attempted to lynch the child. How dare she say the word 'gun' in a school....... especially one that blows bubbles.

Out here in the sticks school officials would be the ones swinging...

[Danke]

If bubble guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have bubble guns.

[Pericles]

If bubble guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have bubble guns.

That's fer dang sure.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

A 5-year-old girl was suspended from school earlier this week after she made what the school called a “terrorist threat.”

Her weapon of choice? A small, Hello Kitty automatic bubble blower.

The kindergartner, who attends Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in Pennsylvania, caught administrators’ attention after suggesting she and a classmate should shoot each other with bubbles.

“I think people know how harmless a bubble is. It doesn’t hurt,” said Robin Ficker, an attorney for the girl’s family. According to Ficker, the girl, whose identity has not been released, didn’t even have the bubble gun toy with her at school.

The kindergartner was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation during her 10-day suspension, which was later reduced to two days. The evaluation deemed the girl normal and not a threat to others, Ficker said.

The girl’s family is considering a lawsuit against the school to get the blemish — all because of bubbles — off their daughter’s record.

“The mother has tried to get the girl in another school since this time, and they won’t take the little girl because of this mark on her record,” Ficker said.

The suspension comes one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which has created a heightened sense of alert at schools across the country.

The Mount Carmel Area School District told ABC News, “We are confident that much of the information supplied to the media may not be consistent with the facts… The Mount Carmel Area School District takes the well-being and safety of students and staff very seriously.”

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This is why people do not like public schools.

[ZENemy]

"The kindergartner, who attends Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in Pennsylvania, caught administrators’ attention after suggesting she and a classmate should shoot each other with bubbles."

So the kid didn't even BRING THE THING TO SCHOOL?

They merely TALKED about it? Ok, the movie idiocracy HAS arrived.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

"The kindergartner, who attends Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in Pennsylvania, caught administrators’ attention after suggesting she and a classmate should shoot each other with bubbles."

So the kid didn't even BRING THE THING TO SCHOOL?

They merely TALKED about it? Ok, the movie idiocracy HAS arrived.
Thank God she did not say she's going to shoot the President with bubbles

[brushfire]

This is why people do not like government public schools.

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[youngbuck]

SMH, crap like this disgusts me. For some reason public schools attract administration like this.