5-year-old Suspended for Making 'Gun Gesture' On Playground

[MRK]

GASTON COUNTY, N.C. (CBS Charlotte (http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/12/17/5-year-old-suspended-for-making-gun-gesture-with-hand/)) – A 5-year-old boy was reportedly suspended from school after making a gun gesture with his hand on the playground.
His father, David Hendrix, was furious when he found out his son was issued a suspension for the gesture.
“He was playing army on the playground,” Hendrix told WBTV. “I just felt like the punishment was way too severe.”
The boy was issued a one day in-school suspension from his kindergarten class at Pinewood Elementary School.
Hendrix wanted the issue resolved and met with the school principle who did not want to drop the suspension, so he pressed further.
“I requested an immediate meeting that night with him myself and the school board, at their pleasure, anytime that night. And at that point they decided it was not worth the effort, not worth the headache and dropped everything right then and there,” Hendrix told WBTV.
In the school’s handbook, there is no mention of punishment for making a ‘gun gesture’ with your hand, WBTV reported. Calls made by WBTV to the school went unanswered.


What a great way to kick off the kid's induction into the school system.

[phill4paul]

Hendrix wanted the issue resolved and met with the school principle who did not want to drop the suspension, so he pressed further.

“I requested an immediate meeting that night with him myself and the school board, at their pleasure, anytime that night. And at that point they decided it was not worth the effort, not worth the headache and dropped everything right then and there,” Hendrix told WBTV.

Good dad!

[MRK]

Good dad!

Yep. When I read this, I realized this guy knows his game theory. The suspension would've been served had he not grilled the principle and threatened to bring it up with his superiors that same day, before the principle would have had time to prepare.

[Occam's Banana]

“He was playing army on the playground,” Hendrix told WBTV. “I just felt like the punishment was way too severe.”
So does this mean he feels like some other punishment would have been acceptable? I hope not ...


In the school’s handbook, there is no mention of punishment for making a ‘gun gesture’ with your hand

Irrelevant. Public schools know that they are default "holding pens" for peoples' children - and that parents have few or no alternatives for what to do with their children on weekdays. Suspensions, then, will have the effect of "recruiting" parents to "assist" in keeping their children "in line" - at least when parents submit to the school's authority (which is what most of them will do). Thus, suspension is far too useful a tool for administrators to be bound by the non-existence of some piddling "rule" or other.

On rare occasion, though, you'll get someone like Mr. Hendrix, who will actually take his child's side, rather than the school's. If more parents did this, teachers, principals & superintendents wouldn't be nearly so presumptuously "uppity" are they are ...

[tod evans]

Hey teach;

http://500hats.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834517b5669e20120a5bb51e1970b-800wi

[libertarianMoney]

The constitution of the United States constitution firmly protects a citizens rights to bear gun gestures.

Wait a second... I may be mistaken but I think this isn't REALLY about gun gestures.
Boy... those liberals certainly know how to fight their liberal fight.

Six months ago I was arrested for carrying a concealed gun gesture cause the cops caught me walking down the street with my hands in my pockets.

[aGameOfThrones]

Cops and robbers is outmoded, but you should teach your kids "bad cops and good citizen".

[JK/SEA]

5 year olds need to band together and start a pew pew movement.

[Occam's Banana]

Cops and robbers is outmoded, but you should teach your kids "bad cops and good citizen".

Are you crazy? That would literally be child abuse!! (Unless the children play the cops ...)

[Philhelm]

The father should have showed the principal a real gun, in order to avoid future confusion.

[phill4paul]

The father should have showed the principal a real gun, in order to avoid future confusion.

"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"