If you read the article, as far as I can tell the headline pretty much covers it. The 5-year-old girl was interrogated about it without her parents present and left crying. Her parents have had to retain a lawyer to fight the suspension. Frankly, I think their money would be better spent on private school or a good home schooling curriculum. The public schools are beyond redemption now that scenes that would seem surreal in a Kafka or Orwell novel are actually happening in real life in our schools.
You see this phrase a lot: "...school officials aren't at liberty to discuss disciplinary actions." I'm getting pretty tired of that dodge. These radicals need to answer to the public for what they're doing to our children.
Every time I read one of these articles I wonder, "Who are these adults?" I don't think I know a single adult who would do anything but chuckle at a "threat" to shoot someone with a soap bubble gun.
This isn't about protecting the children, it's about promoting a radical anti-gun agenda, making children feel trauma and shame at even innocent play involving guns.
If this girl is a terrorist, my house is like an al Qaeda outpost: the three youngest kids all got nerf dart guns for Christmas and spent the next few days in pitched battle through the house. Apparently there are adults walking around out there who think this was a scene of unspeakable terror and horrific human rights violations. Unarmed people and innocent bystanders were sometimes deliberately targeted! Victims were shot in cold blood after surrendering!
My wife responded with a stern diplomatic condemnation of the atrocities: "I swear, if one of you shoots me with those darts one more time..."
This seems a good time to quote Tom Wolfe on Muggeridge's Law:
While Malcolm Muggeridge was the editor of Punch, it was announced that Khrushchev and Bulganin were coming to England. Muggeridge hit upon the idea of a mock itinerary, a lineup of the most ludicrous places the two paunchy pear-shaped little Soviet leaders could possibly be paraded through during the solemn process of a state visit. Shortly before press time, half the feature had to be scrapped. It coincided exactly with the official itinerary, just released, prompting Muggeridge to observe: We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.
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