Numerous letters were sent home and the kid still did it.

The kid's parent said they didn't get any letters...

@Putin: that's irrelevant. There is absolutely no reason to for a punishment. When I was in elementary school (about ten years ago now) we would play cops and robbers, or a similar game (soldiers, etc.) and use our fingers as guns. Or we would make paper shooters out of mechanical pencils and shoot paper balls at each other.

Now that would be grounds for suspension. That's bullshit.

The only acceptable zero-tolerance policy is a zero-tolerance policy on zero-tolerance policies.

Kid should know he can't fingerbang his classmates.

The school has had a pervasive problem with play shooting and this has been going on for weeks. The parents acknowledged they were aware of various warnings the school made about it, and the kid did it anyway.

This is why discipline falls apart at schools, because parents think it's a free-for-all and their kid is never wrong.

No, discipline falls apart in schools because of Draconian rules and other idiotic policies.

You clearly haven't been in the schools if you think there are draconian rules.

When was the last time YOU were in school, Putin? By draconian rules I mean shit like "no backpacks in the halls" and zero-tolerance policies. Can't fight back if someone attacks you or you get suspended.

I worked in the very school system this suspension took place in a couple of years ago, thanks. I also know that we can't even send kids home for having live lice in their hair, so the idea that rules are draconian is absurd.

Can't send home kids for lice? What kind of joke school is that.

Schools should teach firearm safety, not make guns a de facto thoughtcrime. We already teach kids about everything else safety-related, why not principles of firearm handling and operation?

Just get a local gun shop or police department to donate some surplus pieces and render them inoperable by removing the firing pins. Bring in a local NRA instructor as a guest teacher. It wouldn't be expensive or complicated.

Just remove the lice and move on...

@Gunfighter: I would want them to remove a bit more than the firing pins if the guns stay around.

It's not that hard to smuggle a firing pin and a bullet in without making much effort...

We used bows in middle school gym, guns wouldn't be a big jump.

@steephie: at that point, if you had a firing pin and a bullet, it wouldn't be much more of a stretch to bring in a whole gun, would it?

No, we shouldn't have actual guns in schools.

End of story.

@ steephie22

If you're going to go to the trouble of sneaking in a firing pin and a live round, you might as well bring a loaded and operational firearm, instead of one that requires a conspicuous amount of assembly. A kid who knows how to break down a firearm and correctly re-install the correct type of firing pin is a kid who probably has guns at home.

Besides, these kids would be under constant supervision the whole time, obviously.You can't inconspicuously install a firing pin and load a live round without a half-vigilant supervisor noticing.

@ bo_sox48

So you'd rather have a generation of idiots who don't respect firearms and don't know a thing about firearm safety? Okay. A lot fewer people have been killed in firearm safety classes than in accidents outside of a classroom.

@ bo_sox48

You're in high school, right? What's the driving age where you live? You trust your classmates with 2,000 pound guided missiles but you don't trust them with an inoperable firearm?

In school we teach math, science, literature, foreign language. We teach driver's ed and sex ed. We teach biology, chemistry, physics, economics. We teach art and music, and how to play dozens of sports in gym class. Why not gun safety? Especially in states like Texas, Wyoming, Iowa, Pennsylvania, etc., where there are lots of guns.

Lol, no, I don't trust my classmates driving. My government does. Ask them. I barely trust myself and I'm more experienced than any of them by far.

I don't want to be the teacher supervising when some 13-year-old class clown decides it would be funny to "try something" with a gun. No teacher does.

Chaqa, you can have gun safety seminars or whatever without pulling out an actual gun.

I don't think what gunfighter is suggesting is dozens of guns. Maybe three or four with the firing pins removed, and clips with the springs removed, that can be used as visuals. Hell, plastic replicas would work.

Fill the barrels with cement. And when I was in junior high, we learned archery as part of gym class. That was a ton of fun and the worst person that came out of school with me to the best of my knowledge is serving time for mail fraud - he owned Berkeley Nutraceuticals, makers of enzyte.

Yeah Chaqa, plastic replicas would work. I never said we shouldn't have gun safety classes (it would save me a lot of time outside of class), I just said we shouldn't ever make it seem even remotely okay to have an actual gun in school.

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Numerous letters were sent home and the kid still did it.
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Letters for WHAT?!?! You actually think this is rational, because Libtard teachers sent letters home over a child making a finger gun? Moron...

The teachers should be fired for wasting time and effort and postage to send letters home over a damned finger gun. Moron.

"The school has had a pervasive problem with play shooting"

Because we all know play gunshot wounds are the mostest dangerous...

Seeing as how deadly the mighty finger gun is, they should have found the kid in class with the a double-hand semi-automatic finger gun, and had him sharp-shoot the lice off the dirty kid's heads.