Alas, I believe that we should begin to name our years in the manner of the Chinese, which in 2013’s case I nominate it to be the year of the flibbertigibbets, for nowhere does the definition become more exemplified than in our educational system. Now, Congress is making a hearty try at claiming the title, and I have no doubt will in time seize the title in fine fetter, and in fact provide a whole new definition, but at this point, it’s our public schools and their fearless administrators that claim the title.
Case in point: 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.
Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days for issuing a 'terroristic threat.' But her punishment was reduced to two days after her mother met with school officials and had the incident dropped to 'threatening to harm another student,' which apparently carries a lesser punishment.
"It's laughable," Robin Ficker, the girl's attorney told FoxNews.com. "This is a girl who had no idea about killing or what happened in Connecticut." He was referring to the recent shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed 26 lives.
Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials said the girl made the threat on Jan. 10 as she waited for a school bus with friends. A school official overheard the remark and searched the girl's backpack and did not find the Hello Kitty gun, he said.
The next day, the girls involved were 'interrogated' by school officials, Ficker said. By the time the girl was done speaking to administrators about the incident, she was crying, he said. A teacher called out the girl in front of her class and told her police may get involved, he said.
Ficker called the girl "the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania. What parent that you know would want their 5-year-old questioned about making terroristic threats without them in the room?" Ficker asked. School district solicitor Edward Greco tells pennlive.com officials are looking into the case. He said Friday school officials aren't at liberty to discuss disciplinary actions. Ficker said he has scheduled a meeting with a lawyer from the school board later this month to have the girl’s record expunged.
This follows on the heels of the also much publicized suspensions of students for using the lethal bolt action hand with five finger magazine while playing “Cops and Robbers”.
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