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.








