1st grader suspended for pointing finger, saying POW.

[powderman]

First grader suspended for making gun gesture with finger at Maryland school  Published January 03, 2013
FoxNews.com    A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his Maryland elementary school for making a gun gesture with his finger, pointing it at a classmate and saying "pow."
The Washington Post reports the first grader's parents are fighting to remove the disciplinary action, which the school said was due to the child making a "threat" to shoot another student in December, from the child's record.
The school says the child pointed his finger at a female student in his class as if it were a gun and said "pow." The school says the child had been warned before about similar behavior, but chose to do it anyway.
“We always make sure there is clear conversation with the student and parents about any behaviors that have to change and what the consequences are if that behavior doesn’t change,” Montgomery schools spokesman Dana Tofig told The Washington Post, saying that the suspension was not a knee-jerk reaction to a single incident.
 
The child was suspended for one day on December 21. His family's attorney Wednesday filed an appeal, asking that the incident be expunged from the child's record and arguing the boy never had the intention of shooting anyone.
“He’s skinny and meek," attorney Robin Ficker said of the boy. "In his words, he was playing.”
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[magooch]

I wonder if it would have been okay if the youngster had used his middle finger and hollered f u.

[Defoe]

If he made a habit of disrupting class with his finger gun, I can understand the suspension.
but the suspension should be for disruption only, not for shooting his finger gun.

the liberals will try to ban "pointy fingers".

[Dee]

And Amerika slips further into the silliness of "liberal reality".

[guzzijohn]

And if later on that kid does shoot someone you will all hear the cry of the "signs were ignored", mostly coming from the right.
GuzziJohn

[dakotashooter2]

LOL the best way to get a 6 year old boy to do something is tell him "not to do it". If they had ignored it he would have quit............... You have to love what childhood psychology instruction does for our teachers..................

[m-g Willy]

And if later on that kid does shoot someone you will all hear the cry of the "signs were ignored", mostly coming from the right.
GuzziJohn

Soooooo, you would be infavor of disarming him?
At least cutting off his dangerous fingers?,,if not his whole arm.

[powderman]

And if later on that kid does shoot someone you will all hear the cry of the "signs were ignored", mostly coming from the right.
GuzziJohn

Soooooo, you would be infavor of disarming him?
At least cutting off his dangerous fingers?,,if not his whole arm.

 
HEH, kinda sounds like it to me. POWDERMAN. 

[Shu]

In grade school we played  war -americans vs germans etc, cops and robbers. We all had finger guns. Alot of them were machine guns no less. There was a guy who even threw grenades. We left trails of dead bodies everywhere.  Recess ended and we went right back into the classroom like it was no big deal.
 
I guess the warning signs were there. No one knew just how dangerous we were.
 
Some of us went on to enlist, others went to college some even became real life cops. Shows just how messed up we were.

[Dee]

Didn't you have to register those machine fingers with the ATF?

[Shu]

No we did not register those machine fingers.
 
None of us school yard shooters became politicians either!!!

[Dee]

So that other poster was right! You did go on to become wanton offenders. Your carrying unregistered illegal fingers. You should give the government the finger.

[twoshooter]

You won't have to wait to pry my cold dead ones...... I will give you the finger....now