Apparently
the mass hysteria gripping school officials has swayed a presiding
judge—three years later—to also confuse a Pop-Tart as a
“dangerous” weapon.
Back
in March of 2013, then 7-year-old Josh Welsh ran afoul of school
bureaucrats when he supposedly chewed his strawberry breakfast pastry
into a “gun” and allegedly wielded it saying, “Bang, bang,”
to a fellow student. This “boys
being boys”
behavior earned the second-grader a two-day school suspension from
Baltimore's Park Elementary School. Today, this ludicrous decision
has been upheld by Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Ronald A.
Silkworth. (Or is that Silkworm?)
This authoritarian Wonderland
Queen
of liberal bleeding hearts wrote: “[A] suspension was appropriately
used as a corrective tool to address this disruption, based on the
student’s past history of escalating behavioral issues.” How is
this lily-livered judge not obviously drunk with a fascist's power?
Did he cower behind his bench when ruling against the now ten year
old?
In
America, “land of the free, home of the brave,” this
pronouncement is anti-American madness. During the original incident,
Josh's father said, “I would almost call it insanity. I mean with
all the potential issues that could be dealt with at school, real
threats, bullies, whatever the real issue is, it’s a pastry.”
Even the Florida legislature added to the lunacy by passing a
bill
that “protects” against the act of “brandishing a partially
consumed pastry or other food item to simulate a firearm or weapon.”
If these radical responses aren't “1984” style
thought-crime—punishing children for their imaginations—what is?
The
real issue here is the systematic emasculation of boys by progressive
statists: it's fascism run amok in the public
school
system. Last time I checked, the purpose of educators is to
enlighten, not to engage in radical beyond-the-scope hard left social
engineering.
This situation exactly depicts the irrational intention to punish
typical, masculine “tough guy” behavior in favor of that of the
wussy, subservient pajama boy: an archetype that has defined the
disastrous Obama years.
As
the Sandy
Hook
massacre tragically and definitively demonstrated, schools as
gun-free zones facilitate danger while promising the illusion of
safety. The zero tolerance policy should not be directed at boys' and
their pretend “weapons of war,” it should censure kangaroo court
judges for punishing them for normal “manly” conduct.
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