Dear Ionia School System Administrators:
This past week you suspended a 6 year old for making the shape of a gun with his pudgy little pitters, claiming it “made other students uncomfortable.”
As the mother of a previously-6 year old, I shall now elucidate for you exactly what engenders a state of uncomfortableness for a child of that age:
- Having to go pee pee.
- Having to go doo doo.
- Being kissed on the cheek by Susie.
- Being kissed on the cheek by Grandma.
Pretty much everything else is met with 100mph enthusiasm and the same lack of worry exhibited by a 3 month old Labrador Retriever.
I know at least some of you have to be parents, have observed the same relative unconcern and resiliency in your own young children, so kindly do us all a favor and stop “showing your asses” as my mother would say. A kindergartener is not going to set off the next Columbine, you astonishing pack of morons.
“Astonishing Pack of Morons” would, unfortunately, describe a surprisingly large, and apparently growing, portion of the population of the U.S., as well as 99.8% of politicians.
It would also be an awesome name for a rock band. I’m adding it to the list on my blog.
D.W.
March 11th, 2010
Glad to see you’re back!
Anyhoo, I’m so tired of the PC crowd running the schools I could spit. My six year old is one of those kids that is incredibly enthusiastic and loud. He’s like being caught in a tornado, and most of the laughs we get in the day involve him. That said, you can imagine how he goes over in the public schools. A couple of weeks ago I got a disturbing phone call in which the acting principal related to me that my son had “endangered another child” by “threatening him with a pencil”. It was explained that another child had almost “had his eye poked out” by my son. Now, I know my kids well enough to never deny anything, but this didn’t sound like my guy. Loud? Yes. Mean? No. I recieved the official paperwork and then brought it to the teacher to ask if it accurately described the incident. Turns out that he and another boy were playing chase and my son had a handful of pencils in his hand at the time. There were no threats, no angry, pencil poking moments, but he did keep chasing when the teacher told him to stop. Hmmmm….seems like a slightly less maniacal story, no?
Meanwhile, same school system, we’ve got the golf coach climbing into the hot tub with the team (all high school girls), we’ve got the geography teacher asking girls to stretch like they’re yawning, we’ve got the middle school principal living in his car after his wife found out he was doing a counselor at the same school, we’ve got all manner of teachers who don’t teach. Problem? Wadda you think?
heather
March 14th, 2010
I shall sleep easier tonight. Imagine if this behavior continued unchecked. Pretty soon kids would be moving their thumbs back and forth and clicking their tongues like a bunch of used car salesmen.
Old Soldier
April 13th, 2010