5 y.o. Threatened with Suspension over Lego gun
Jan 29, 2013 22:25:03 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Jan 29, 2013 22:25:03 GMT -5
This is totally ridiculous! Kids will even use a twig and pretend it's a gun...
Boy, 5, threatened with suspension for building toy gun out of Legos
PUBLISHED: 13:36 EST, 29 January 2013 | UPDATED: 16:30 EST, 29 January 2013
A five-year-old boy has been threatened with suspension after he used Legos to build a toy gun at school.
Joseph Cardosa, attends an a after-school program at Hyannis West Elementary School, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Teachers gave him a written warning for play-shooting some of his friends with the toy gun.
His parents say they understand that teachers are parents are on edge after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, but argue that school administrators are taking things too far.
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Disciplined: Joseph Cardosa, 5, was told he would be suspended for two weeks if he makes a gun at his after school program again
Is this a gun: Joseph's mother Sheila Cruz said the school is over-reacting
'Kids are taught, "Here's a squirt gun, this is fun," so this is fun to him... he's running around playing,' Shelia Cruz told Fox 5 Boston.
Ms Cruz said teachers should have spoken with her son an re-directed his playing to a non-violent scenario.
'We were running around and we were shooting... we were jut pretending,' little Joseph said.
Teachers sent Joseph's parents a letter warning that if he play-acted with a toy gun again, he would be suspended for two weeks.
Suspension, Ms Cruz says, is excessive.
'It's not like he's designing a machine gun,' the mother said.
Cracking down: School administrators across the country have heightened sensitivity to any playing that involves simulated violence
Cracking down: School administrators across the country have heightened sensitivity to any playing that involves simulated violence
Teachers disagree.
Principal Kathi Amato said in a statement to Fox 5: 'While someone might think that making a Lego gun is just an action of a 5-year-old, to other 5-year-olds, that might be a scary experience.'
Ms Cruz admits that her son has been reprimanded once before for making a finger gun.
Since the December 14 massacre in Connecticut that killed 20 first graders, school administrators have been very sensitive to child making references to guns or shooting - even during play.
A five-year-old girl in eastern Pennsylvania was suspended after she said she was going to shoot her friends with her Hello Kitty bubble gun.
A fifth grader was suspended after she pulled out a torn piece of paper and said it was a handgun.
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Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270243/Boy-5-threatened-suspension-building-toy-gun-Legos.html#ixzz2JQRJ9nBO
Boy, 5, threatened with suspension for building toy gun out of Legos
PUBLISHED: 13:36 EST, 29 January 2013 | UPDATED: 16:30 EST, 29 January 2013
A five-year-old boy has been threatened with suspension after he used Legos to build a toy gun at school.
Joseph Cardosa, attends an a after-school program at Hyannis West Elementary School, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Teachers gave him a written warning for play-shooting some of his friends with the toy gun.
His parents say they understand that teachers are parents are on edge after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, but argue that school administrators are taking things too far.
Scroll down for video
Disciplined: Joseph Cardosa, 5, was told he would be suspended for two weeks if he makes a gun at his after school program again
Is this a gun: Joseph's mother Sheila Cruz said the school is over-reacting
'Kids are taught, "Here's a squirt gun, this is fun," so this is fun to him... he's running around playing,' Shelia Cruz told Fox 5 Boston.
Ms Cruz said teachers should have spoken with her son an re-directed his playing to a non-violent scenario.
'We were running around and we were shooting... we were jut pretending,' little Joseph said.
Teachers sent Joseph's parents a letter warning that if he play-acted with a toy gun again, he would be suspended for two weeks.
Suspension, Ms Cruz says, is excessive.
'It's not like he's designing a machine gun,' the mother said.
Cracking down: School administrators across the country have heightened sensitivity to any playing that involves simulated violence
Cracking down: School administrators across the country have heightened sensitivity to any playing that involves simulated violence
Teachers disagree.
Principal Kathi Amato said in a statement to Fox 5: 'While someone might think that making a Lego gun is just an action of a 5-year-old, to other 5-year-olds, that might be a scary experience.'
Ms Cruz admits that her son has been reprimanded once before for making a finger gun.
Since the December 14 massacre in Connecticut that killed 20 first graders, school administrators have been very sensitive to child making references to guns or shooting - even during play.
A five-year-old girl in eastern Pennsylvania was suspended after she said she was going to shoot her friends with her Hello Kitty bubble gun.
A fifth grader was suspended after she pulled out a torn piece of paper and said it was a handgun.
Video at link:
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270243/Boy-5-threatened-suspension-building-toy-gun-Legos.html#ixzz2JQRJ9nBO
