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PLAYING WITH FIRE

Second Grader Suspended for Playing With Pretend Grenade

School rules say no imaginary weapons even for superheroes

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by Lisa Fine

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An unidentified child pretends to be a super hero. Image: Hi, How Are You

A Denver area elementary school suspended a seven-year-old boy for using an imaginary grenade while playing a game on the playground in which he is a hero pretending to save the world from evil forces.

Second-grader Alex Evans pretended to throw a grenade into a box as part of the game he made up and calls "Rescue the World."

"I was trying to save people and I just can't believe I got dispended," Evans told Denver's Fox 31. "I pretended the box, there's something shaking in it, and I go - pshhh.'"

But the pretend game had some very real consequences. It violated rules at Mary Blair Elementary in Loveland, Colo., that say "no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary," Fox 31 reports.

His mom, Mandie Watkins, thinks the rule goes overboard. "Honestly I don't think the rule is very realistic for kids this age," she said.

Via Fox 31Denver
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  • PNWest
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    They should have never have 'dispended' him. The kid was just being a kid. Think of all the stuff we did growing up watching the Three Stooges after school every day.
  • PNWest
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    @LGRepublican That girl in the other thread should have addressed the Judge as My Honor or Judgie Wudgie.
  • LGRepublican
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    @PNWest I still to this day laugh out loud at that clip. If she had called him that, he probably would have locked her up and thrown away the key....
  • Knightkore
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    "Buck Russell: I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you!
    [of Anita's mole]
    Buck Russell: Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam."

    Uncle Buck quotes

    http://www.great-quotes.com/quotes/movie/Uncl...
  • SavageMazx
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    We had a 3 grader here in the Sacramento area sent home because he had Star Wars underwear on. Apparently last week he was spotted by a teacher "monitoring the bathroom." She saw them and sent him to the office. His parents were called and he was sent home. Sort of creepy to have a female teacher monitoring the boys bathroom, but either way it was ridiculous to send the kid home. The schools excuse was "anything that promotes violence will not be tolerated by the school district."

    My son was sent home 2 years ago for wearing a shirt with a hunters silhouette with a deer on his back and his bow in his hand, the shirt said "Those who Sneak eat." The shirt "violated the schools anti weapons policy" I asked them if they were going to read Julius Caesar in class....the principle asked me to leave to office.
  • Medicinebow
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    @SavageMazx Yeah...it's getting crazy like when kids are sent home for wearing shirts with the U.S. flag on it, star wars etc.
    Do you and you son bowhunt? If so, GREAT. My son and I have spent many good days afield bowhunting. Fortunately my son's H.S. principal was a hunter.
  • SavageMazx
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    @Medicinebow I grew up in North Eastern Nevada, where every pickup had a gun rack with a rifle in the rear window, when you didn't get in trouble for having a pocket knife, when we made rifle stocks and cross bows in wood shop along with clocks and magazine racks. Hunting and fishing was a way of life. Those were the good old days.
  • Medicinebow
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    @SavageMazx I hear you. Fortunately, it's still my way of life. LIfe is at its best when i'm afield with a bow or on a high mountain stream with a fly rod. I enjoy that almost as much as I enjoy being married. My favorite place on Earth is Wyoming...and i've been to a lot of places on this planet. I have the clock my son made me on my fly tying desk !
  • SavageMazx
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    @Medicinebow I have traveled all over the west, loved WY. Did two projects in the Tetons. Spent the night in Dubois, Green River, Jackson and just about every other little place there. Really liked Sheridan as well. What I like the most was the people I met in the places I stayed. One of my favorites was watching the sunrise near Hells Half Acre. Being in the wild places of the West really reminds me of what a beautiful nation we live in, and meeting people like those I have shared coffee and whiskey with reminds me of what made thus nation's great.

    PS I spent 6 hours in a white out on Tugwotee pace. That was not as much fun.
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  • jaybebo84
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    This is why this world is going to crap...we can't even let the children of this world learn to play without being punished...imagination is replaced with indoctrination.
  • Buzzfriendly
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    Generation Overreaction! Soon we will be walking around in bullet proof environmental controlled bubbles mandated by the government so we can all be snug and safe from all of life's harm.
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    theroadtohell1
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    The child was simply using his imagination,what a truly ridiculous decision,and i suppose the people who santion this are "educated" or maybe even experts !!!
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    culinary
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    We spend years and money (books, videos, etc.) Cultivating a child's imagination. We want them to be active and imaginative in their play. Then, when kids are bring kids, some idiot pulls a stunt like this. Ridiculous!
  • Dan_Tien
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    My friends and I used to play war on the playground all of the time. It was good fun. I'm surprised that this boy has enough imagination to create his own game about saving the world. Better nip that in the bud fast or he might not make a good drone.
  • jessejaymes
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    This is just out and out liberal stupidity. Man, I thought the right wing had cornered the market on stupidity and now this. I can't even find words to say it any other way. STUPID.
  • Denizen_Kate
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    "no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary," What genius came up with these rules? I thought we were supposed to encourage imagination!

    "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
  • Knightkore
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    Well, ever watch Demolition Man....that's where we're headed....get ready to jam to unoffensive jingles on your XM radio....
  • Knightkore
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    Ah political correct progressive liberal thought police....shall we ban comic books, Batman, Wolverine....the progressive liberal tolerance and paranoia strikes again....and to think after this once the kid has complex not knowing right from wrong and is in the mental health system being treated for depression, he'll off himself because the progressive liberals were more concerned about imaginarey things rather than fixing the real problems of the mental health system....

    A lawyer needs to sue the school for violating his freedoms in the Constitution....
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    Realthinker
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    Our school systems have gone crazy. Children cannot play the way they always have, they are not being taught to read. All they are learning is political correctness which is cultural Marxism. I wish I could afford to send my grandchildren to private schools.
  • Keyjo
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    It's a sign of the times.
    The schools' "no tolerance" policies often go overboard. No toy weapons, no aspirin, etc......
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