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Kindergarten Cops-Never Bring a Gun To Show and Tell

1/31/2013

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Not a day goes by that Lakewood doesn't get media attention for something negative. Accidents, shootings, homelessness , slumlords and now kindergartners and gun violence. 

A Spruce street school kindergarten student threatened that he would return the next day with a gun. The incident was reported to school superintendent Laura Winters. Police were called and the boy was suspended for two days. 

The question remains. What good does it do to suspend a child for such a comment? If the child was asked where he would get a gun, and answered that he knows where his father keeps it, then authorities would have to deal with the gun owner. Perhaps child services needed to be called. If there was no gun in the home, then a child that age just needs to be told that guns are not something we talk about anymore. If he had threatened to bring his pitbull to school to bite a kid, would anyone have said anything? What if he just said I'm gonna kill you! Would that have been ok? 

There was a time when a child could play cops and robbers with his hand as if it were a gun and nobody would look twice. Now it would get him a visit to the principal. 

In our High School if a kid threatens gun violence they could face an expulsion. If they come to school and end up in gang fights they are ignored. 

When children are exposed to gangs an criminals on their street what do we expect of them? They have access to current TV shows about serial killers and drug dealers, where guns solve problems, not discussions or mediation. Their school becomes a secondary form of education. 

Without a positive atmosphere in our schools and in our town, this will only be the beginning.
By the way that t- shirt comes in children's sizes also.
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torah jew
1/31/2013 02:03:54 am

fire winters!!!

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