Time to Clean House

A 5-year-old girl in North Carolina was suspended recently for playing with a stick.

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Yep, you read that right.  She was playing with a stick and was sent home for a one-day suspension for playing on the school playground with other students.

It seems as though Caitlin Miller was playing “princess” with two other girls during an assigned playtime.  One girl was the queen, the other was the princess, and Caitlin was playing the guard protecting the other two.  She was using a stick as a gun.

Here is where I get chafed.  Caitlin did what countless other kids have done for generations – pretend, or play act – using items available to make their play session complete.

As a child, I, too, played like a kid.  Most of the neighborhood kids had plastic guns.  Armed with rolls of caps – paper and gunpowder molded together forming a sub-miniature concoction that resembled tiny red toilet paper – that created a “BANG” when the toy gun trigger was pulled.

They were annoying to the adults but, they were great fun for us kids.

We played Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians (not Cowboys and Native Americans), G-Man, Army/War, just about anything we could mentally muster to be able to use our plastic guns.

Very few kids had to “borrow” a gun from a playmate; each had their own and each wielded them with aplomb.  I carried a Thompson submachine gun.

Alas, poor Caitlin had to make up her own gun in order to protect the fantasy monarchy with which she helped create a tiny make-believe land.

Each day Caitlin and the rest of America can tune-in practically any television station to watch cartoon characters, and live people, play act.  She could easily get lost in the fantasy she is seeing before her eyes.  But, her teachers felt the need to chastise her for mimicking those adults she’s supposed to look up to and emulate.  Sad, indeed.

Here’s my rub.  I fully blame the teachers and administrators involved because they are the ones who created their goofy zero-tolerance policy.

Those same weak-minded adults need to be drug-tested because, and correct me if I’m wrong, a stick cannot shoot bullets.

I am a pro-Second Amendment guy who believes guns are God’s tool to keep people free from tyranny, and safe from violent crime.

I often carry a gun for which I paid a small fortune.  Had I known, or even thought, that a stick could be as intimidating as a gun, I could have saved a bundle.  I wouldn’t have to clean it, nor would I have to hide it in a holster when out in public.

Once again, this is an excellent example of stupid people assigned to educate our kids.  It’s about time to clean house of nitwits in charge of teaching – or rather indoctrinating – America’s next generation.