[blparent] Your thoughts on this?

Sat Jan 26 00:57:32 UTC 2013

I know.  Kids aren't allowed to have fun, I guess.  What are we supposed to 
do, plunk them down in front of the TV, put a video game in their hands, and 
hold them hostage?

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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From: Jeri Milton
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

One of my son's favorite things to play, is army. His room is full of little
green army men, big GI Joe's, military ships, tanks etc. Along with other
toys of course. But I told him he probably shouldn't talk about his
automatic Nurf guns at school. Luckily, the district he is in hasn't gone
off the deep in with everything, at least not yet, but if he were to ever be
suspended or called into an evaluation because he was playing cops and
robbers, or cowboys and Indians at school on recess I'm afraid I would go
ballistic. We too have the bubble guns, nurf guns, water guns etc. The
lunatics of the world are screwing it up for everyone.

Jeri

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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

Oh goodness.  First of all, I think kindergartners are too young to see
films about the fact that MLK got shot.  If Gab said that now, she'd be
suspended and probably required to have a psych eval before she was allowed
back in school.  There was a news story just this week about a five-year-old
in Pennsylvania who got a ten-day suspension for talking to her friends at
the bus stop about shooting each other with a Hello Kitty gun for blowing
soap bubbles.  It was ridiculous, but the district said that under zero
tolerance, there was no choice.  She was said to have made a "terroristic
threat to harm others."  Under public pressure, the suspension was reduced
to two days, but a psych eval, which found nothing, was still performed.
Sometimes I really don't know what this world is coming to, when kids are
punished for having perfectly harmless social interactions with their
friends.  My own daughter, who will be five in amonth, is armed with one of
those bubble blowing guns.  God forbid she ever mentions it at school!

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

I've never had that experience before.  Maybe it is something new.
The thing I did have to nip in the butt was in Kindergarten, Gab saw a film
about MLK and how he got shot and she came home saying, "mommy, if you don't
like someone, you can just shoot them!"
Wow, if she said that now adays, they'd suspend her.  But you know what, she
was 5 and didn't know about this evil world!
Jo Elizabeth, I bet thay taught them how to get out, I seriously don't think
they talked about jumping out a 2 story house, but just in case they did,
you should call her school and inquire.  You just never know.
They could of showed it from a single story and perhaps those kids that have
a multistory inacted that.
V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:36 PM
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Subject: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

on this?
My four-year-old came home from school on Friday, and when she played with
her dollhouse, she imagined that the door was on fire while everybody was in
bed. Then she started having the Dora family characters jump out the second
and third story windows. I questioned her a bit, and she said that some
officers (I call them that because she couldn't tell me for sure if they
were firefighters or policemen, since they had no big red truck, but I'm
guessing they were firefighters) brought a dollhouse to school and talked
about what to do if there was a fire in the night. She swears they acted out
a scene where the mommy doll and the little girl doll jumped out the
windows. Now I remember fire safety from when I was a kid. Stop, drop, and
roll, get out of your house and have a meeting place for your family, call
911 and all, but I don't recall anything as drastic as an enactment by
firefighters with a real dollhouse and a roleplay of dolls jumping out of a
flaming home. Do any of you have experiences with this; is it typical for
young kids to be educated this way nowadays? Does this seem a little drastic
to all of you, or am I just being protective of my little girl's innocence?
I know she has to be ready for the world and its dangers, but she doesn't
need to have fears put in her mind before she hits the ripe old age of five,
either. It seems a bit much, coming on the heels of the school shooting
drills.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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