Schools discover, math is hard, concentrate on fake gun control

There has been a spate of over reaction to harmless school play mostly involving young boys and finger guns, paper guns, pop tart guns, air grenades and mostly female school officials.

Lex has long opined that the failure of the American school system can be traced directly to an over population of female school administrators. That’s when America decided that if little Johnny thought 2 + 2 = 7 then no one should correct poor little Johnny because that might stunt his self esteem. Self esteem became more important than offering up the correct answer. It’s also about the same time we started giving out “participation trophies” to every kid on the team. We have to keep up their self esteem you know, whether they can play baseball or not.

So a couple of boys playing cops and robbers on the playground with finger guns are hauled in front of the principal as if they were operating a meth lab on school grounds. Parents are notified and suspensions are handed out.

A little girl shows a kid a gun her grandfather had fashioned out of a piece of paper and she is hauled in front of the class and ridiculed before being carted off to the principal’s office and suspended.

A little boy makes the motion of throwing a grenade at a make believe enemy in order “to save the world” and he becomes the hard-core criminal. He’s dealt with in the usual manner. Principal Ratchet doubles his ritalin prescription and issues a three day suspension.

A young boy is told by a teacher to turn his t-shirt inside out because it has the Marine Corps emblem and two crossed muskets on it. The boy refuses and is threatened by a teacher. The boy then complies.

In the latest case of school officials running amok, some idiot elementary school principal snatched up a boy’s birthday cupcakes because the cakes had toy soldiers on them.

What’s more interesting than the actions themselves is that no one seems to get too upset over these things. I’m sure it has to do with parents not wanting to mark their kid for life as a trouble maker. Better to just go along and get along. Well I don’t have a kid in any of these schools.  So from now on I’m making an effort to let kids be kids and get the @$$bag over-educated commie school administrators off the playgrounds.

So, I looked up the school and idiot principal in the last case and sent her this note:

You are the principal of an elementary school grades 3 through 5. Yet, you are the one who needs to grow up. Your knee jerk over reaction to the boy’s birthday cupcakes is a clear indication that you have no business being around young boys. Your failure to anticipate the backlash to your boneheaded decision indicates an air of infallibility on your part reserved for the most arrogant among us. Were I running things at Schall, you would be given 30 minutes to clean out your office and leave the school grounds for good.

Susan Wright can be reached here:

http://caro.mi.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/form/default.php?sectiondetailid=4027&linkid=nav-menu-original-4-14