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A second-grade boy has been suspended from a Colorado elementary school for throwing an imaginary grenade during a game of make-believe with his classmates Friday.

Alex Evans, 7, who attends Mary Blair Elementary in Loveland, said he was playing a game called Rescue the World.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” Alex told KDVR.com.

The school has a list of absolutes that states no weapons, real or imaginary, and no fighting.

“Honestly I don’t think the rule is very realistic for kids this age,” Alex’s mom, Mandie Evans, told KDVR.

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro
Oh not a big deal, I got suspended from High School for a growing a beard.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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A second-grade boy has been suspended from a Colorado elementary school for throwing an imaginary grenade during a game of make-believe with his classmates Friday.
Alex Evans, 7, who attends Mary Blair Elementary in Loveland, said he was playing a game called Rescue the World.
“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” Alex told KDVR.com.
The school has a list of absolutes that states no weapons, real or imaginary, and no fighting.
“Honestly I don’t think the rule is very realistic for kids this age,” Alex’s mom, Mandie Evans, told KDVR.
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Okay the bubble gun incident actually had a weapon, of sorts, and only lethal if the bubble somehow contained a toxic gas.
Now would someone explain the lethality of an imaginary object with no mass, explosive, substance or anything other than air molecules taking up the space in which this weapon would have occupied?

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ORIGINAL: DaNewAgeViking

Get real. The school is worried about small kids learning to think of lethal weapons as toys. I'm not sure if suspension is the right answer - perhaps a special lecture or class program would be better - but someone has to tackle this sick neurosis sweeping our country. At least they're trying.

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ORIGINAL: Alwaysmylove
I don't see any harm in a pretend grenade or any other pretend weapon. Especially since the kids intent was to save the world. What's missing in all of this is common sense.
I grew up pretending to play war with the boys in my neighborhood. We pretended to shoot each other. Pretended to die. Pretended to take prisoners. We KNEW it was pretend. We knew the difference between real guns and our imaginations. We knew that air grenades were NEVER going to hurt anyone. We also knew we would not be suspended for playing a game. Had any school official tried to suspend me for such, my father would have been in that office in a jiffy and it would have been the principal with a problem, not me.
Since when has it become okay, in the United States, to have the thought police suspend a kid for using their imagination? The boy did nothing wrong. He was playing in the same fashion that kids have played throughout history.
For those who say a seven year old has to be responsible for his actions, that a rule is a rule, and that he got what he deserved? What about when rules are arbitrary and just plain WRONG? Are we really at a point where so few people utilize common sense and simply follow the herd? There were once rules that legalized slavery, rules that women could not vote, rules that said children could work the same hours as adults. Just because somebody puts down some words on paper and says it's "policy" does not make it a policy worth adhering to.
I shudder to think what the next generation of Americans is going to be like. The funny thing is, as our rights keep getting gnawed away at, most hardly even notice it's happening. It's wrapped up so neatly, and with such political correctness, that people applaud as it happens.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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A second-grade boy has been suspended from a Colorado elementary school for throwing an imaginary grenade during a game of make-believe with his classmates Friday.

Alex Evans, 7, who attends Mary Blair Elementary in Loveland, said he was playing a game called Rescue the World.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” Alex told KDVR.com.

The school has a list of absolutes that states no weapons, real or imaginary, and no fighting.

“Honestly I don’t think the rule is very realistic for kids this age,” Alex’s mom, Mandie Evans, told KDVR.

Check this out.

Okay the bubble gun incident actually had a weapon, of sorts, and only lethal if the bubble somehow contained a toxic gas.

Now would someone explain the lethality of an imaginary object with no mass, explosive, substance or anything other than air molecules taking up the space in which this weapon would have occupied?

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ORIGINAL: EsotericLady

No one is too young these days to learn responsibility for their actions...real nor implied.
I agree with this post.

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ORIGINAL: DaNewAgeViking

Get real. The school is worried about small kids learning to think of lethal weapons as toys. I'm not sure if suspension is the right answer - perhaps a special lecture or class program would be better - but someone has to tackle this sick neurosis sweeping our country. At least they're trying.

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ORIGINAL: Alwaysmylove

Are we really at a point where so few people utilize common sense and simply follow the herd?

I grew up pretending to play war with the boys in my neighborhood. We pretended to shoot each other. Pretended to die. Pretended to take prisoners. We KNEW it was pretend. We knew the difference between real guns and our imaginations.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

I do wonder about the mental competency of the poor widdle teacher(s) who was/were so frightened by an imaginary grenade (something that does not exist) being used in a game to "rescue the world."

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ORIGINAL: EsotericLady

YESSSS, the majority are! There are prime examples of it everyday, every minute of the day! One needn't
look far at all.
This world SCREAMS "Follow me!" "Be like me!" "You're nobody if you don't do this...buy this...wear this!" etc.
If more than two people do something....then by golly EVERYONE should be doing it! EVERYONE has to have it!

And as for growing up and innocently playing Cops 'N Robbers with the neighborhood kids, I recall those guns being cardboard, or sticks, or later on, the Lone Ranger facimiles.

Five-year-olds are pulling out guns from their Dad's gun cabinets to show their best buddies, and accidentally killing one of them.

It's a MUCH different world we live in now, than those innocent years of the past.

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ORIGINAL: Alwaysmylove

Are we really at a point where so few people utilize common sense and simply follow the herd?

I grew up pretending to play war with the boys in my neighborhood. We pretended to shoot each other. Pretended to die. Pretended to take prisoners. We KNEW it was pretend. We knew the difference between real guns and our imaginations.

Kids were accidentally killed when I was a kid, too. The response then would have been to lock up your guns, to make the parents be more responsible/accountable. When those terrible things happened, they were teachable moments, sad, horrible, but recognized as isolated incidents. They still are. However, the media feeds us a constant stream of it to make it seem much more commonplace than it truly is.

I'm not condoning violence. Yes, even one child dying from gunfire is too many. But, vilifying just about everything in the name of safety is not the answer.

Imaginary grenades are not responsible for the ills of society. Trying to turn this incident into something other than an average child playing a normal game is ludicrous. Suspension is an overreaction to what is normal behavior for a child this age.

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ORIGINAL: DaNewAgeViking

Get real. The school is worried about small kids learning to think of lethal weapons as toys. I'm not sure if suspension is the right answer - perhaps a special lecture or class program would be better - but someone has to tackle this sick neurosis sweeping our country. At least they're trying.