May 13, 2008
First-Grade Tyke Totes Gun To School
You're in high school and you bring along a gun to school. Fine. That's just plain commonsense.
But in the first grade? Crazy! And that's just what happened at Cleveland Elementary School in the Excelsior District on Monday. According to the playground rumor mill, the kid was packing heat in his backpack. Turns out the gossip was true. School district spokeswoman Gentle Blythe clains that "the student said he thought it was a fake gun."
While now on suspension, the wee one was released to his parents, not expelled (yet), and no charges were filed against him or his parents. But the case, according to the Gate, has been "referred to the county's Child Protective Services."
This incident comes on the heels of Thursday's arrest of a 17-year-old boy who (allegedly) brought in a loaded semiautomatic gun to night classes at Lowell High School. Oh yeah, and the Gate goes on to report that "28 percent believe it is sometimes or always acceptable to bring a gun to school." Scary.
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Evil Dead Legos? amazing!
If you talk to public school teachers these days, your jaw will likely drop with every story they offer. I don't know if it is because the parents are so horrible or because California is such a litigious state, but the small number of emotional time bomb kids that haven't been given structure and taught how to behave really absorb a lot of the teachers' hours, from what I understand. God bless folks still willing to teach.
If you godless liberal faggots would let all the other good first-graders have their concealed carry permits like Jesus and George Washington intended, this kind of thing wouldn't even be a problem.
I'm interested in seeing how this story develops, especially since the state Supreme Court struck down SF's ban on handguns recently. The Supes are going to bite on that, no doubt.
Teaching in SF (or really anywhere in this country) can be dangerous. My sister "retired" from being a school teacher two years ago at the age of 31 after the third death threat against her. It's amazing how crazy students and their parents behave. If it isn't bad enough dealing with kids who don't know what structure is, you also have to deal with parents who think their kids shit smells like roses and will put a knife in you if you don't think the same.
I don't think this is a gun rights story in anyway ... any more than a 1st grade kid showing up at school with their mom's copy of Playgirl is about whether or not we should allow nudey magazines to exist. This is more of a story about the sad state of parenting skills, the lack setting boundaries for kids, and what teachers have to put up with as a result of the two.
i'm going to go ahead and blame GTA IV.
Rincon: Ha ha, good luck in seeing any story in the mass media about bad parenting!
True enough .... maybe Current TV? :)
This story brings lots of questions to my mind...
Why did a first grader think that it was ok to bring a TOY gun to school?
Why was there a real gun (or play gun) available for this first grader to find at home & put in their backpack?
Does this child have a parent at home (or are they being raised by some other family member) and did they have any sort of reaction?
And how much do we pay the head of MUNI, vs our teachers at our public schools?