7-Year-Old Suspended After Telling Teacher He Accidentally Brought Toy Gun to School | Fox News Insider

 

"Mathabel said her son left his usual backpack in a friend’s car the night before, so he packed another one but missed the toy gun inside.

 

“So I send my child to school. My child discovers a fake toy gun at about 1:30 p.m. He turns it in to the teacher and he's sent to the office and suspended,” said Mathabel."

Zero. Tolerance. Punk probably planned on squirting someone with water or something.

So the Pennsylvania school district the boy attends has a policy against bringing toy guns to school - therefore a rule WAS broken. Does the punishment fit the crime, though?

"“We are definitely sending the wrong message to kids that telling the truth will get you in trouble,” she said."

 

Interesting quote in the article. Guess mom is ok with the lesson, break the rules, dont get punished?

 

Agree with the punishment. Toy or not, you cant bring something like that to school now a days, that should be common sense.

"“We are definitely sending the wrong message to kids that telling the truth will get you in trouble,” she said."

 

Interesting quote in the article. Guess mom is ok with the lesson, break the rules, dont get punished?

 

Agree with the punishment. Toy or not, you cant bring something like that to school now a days, that should be common sense.

 

How many 7 year olds have common sense. I mean they still think that some octogenerian visits each and every one of them worldwide ever Christmas Eve on a sled pulled by deer.

 

It does seem to me that the lesson to be learned here is if you acciddentaly bring something to school that you should not have, keep your mouth shut and hope you get out of the building at the end of the day before anyone notices.

I'd like to know what would happen to a teacher or principal if someone walked by their car and saw the same gun laying in the back seat? "Oh no, I didn't mean to bring that. My son Timmy accidentally left in the back seat after coming back from Grandma's." Somehow the adult will get a pass with "kids being kids" and "accidents happen". But, when a true accident happens to a kid, we're going to crucify him? Please.

 

Punishment no where near fits the crime. The kid recognized it was wrong (for him having it) and turned it in. The world is not black and white, there's a lot of gray area, and it needs to be recognized that it's not going away...ever.

I was always taught that when a mistake is made it's much better to be honest about it then to try to hide it.

 

This teaches exactly the opposite lesson. Had the kid not told anyone about the TOY GUN and it was later discovered by a teacher the punishment would have been the same so why even own up to the mistake? All this teaches is that if you make a mistake try to cover it up because if you admit the mistake you will be punished just as harshly as if you're caught covering it up.

How many 7 year olds have common sense. I mean they still think that some octogenerian visits each and every one of them worldwide ever Christmas Eve on a sled pulled by deer.

 

It does seem to me that the lesson to be learned here is if you accidentally bring something to school that you should not have, keep your mouth shut and hope you get out of the building at the end of the day before anyone notices.

 

Parents are responsible for their kids are they not? Bag should have been checked before kid went to school to make sure school stuff was in it right? It wasnt his everyday bag, it was a different one, how do you not check it.

If he found it and recognized it as something he shouldn't have and did the honest thing here, then an injustice is being served by punishing him AND it's sending the wrong message/lesson to the kid and his classmates.

How many 7 year olds would be thrilled with not going to school for a few days

Parents are responsible for their kids are they not? Bag should have been checked before kid went to school to make sure school stuff was in it right? It wasnt his everyday bag, it was a different one, how do you not check it.

 

Not to be a smart aleck, but is that really something that people do? I realize I haven't been in school for quite some time now, but I never once had my parents check my backpack when I was a kid.

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I agree. One day it's a toy gun, the next it's "I accidentally took daddy's bag and there is a real gun in it, I don't want to get in trouble so I won't tell the teacher, and just hide it until after school".

Parents are responsible for their kids are they not? Bag should have been checked before kid went to school to make sure school stuff was in it right? It wasnt his everyday bag, it was a different one, how do you not check it.

 

I guess I'm a horrible parent. My two kids have now completed 4th and 5th grade and I don't think that I have once checked their bag before going to school each morning. I don't recall my mom giving me the TSA treatment each day either. Guess it just runs in the family.

Not to be a smart aleck, but is that really something that people do? I realize I haven't been in school for quite some time now, but I never once had my parents check my backpack when I was a kid.

 

Did you know better than to take a toy gun to school, or anything else that you shouldn't have?

Parents are responsible for their kids are they not? Bag should have been checked before kid went to school to make sure school stuff was in it right? It wasnt his everyday bag, it was a different one, how do you not check it.

Stupid parents.