New Jersey fifth-grader Aarin Moody got a lesson in his school's zero tolerance policy after being suspended all of last week for bringing a foam Nerf gun bullet to school, according to his mom.
I don't know about you, but *I* am quite intimidated!
Not by the foam rubber 'bullets'; the scarey school folks, though, freak me out.
*Did I mention that this was New Jersey?*
When I was in Grade School, in a Previous Century Not To Be Named, we (students in 6th Grade) were trading miniature replicas of pistols and rifles like they were Sports Cards. No special reason, they were just cool.
The same thing could get a sixth grader jailed today. Funny ... we didn't have any school shootings back when guns were just 'stuff'.
I remember once I brought my father's "exotic" bullet collection to school for Show And Tell. Everybody wanted to take a closer look at them. But I don't remember anyone killing anyone because they got too excited.
I guess we weren't as "cool" as we thought we were.
2 comments:
Many people die from real bullets in New Jersey every year. Nerf gun bullets are symbols of the real thing, just like a burning cross is the symbol of the KKK. The education establishment is doing what it thinks is right to help stop gun violence.
This fear of firearms and ammo the school system is instilling into these young heads full of mush is great conditioning for the time they might have to enter the military.
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