"No gun is acceptable", so says Hazelmere Junior School Headteacher, Jenny Firth. The school has recently suspended a pupil for taking into school a toy gun that fires foam bullets. These 'weapons' are of course far less dangerous than say a pencil or a compass, but in a classic example of overreaction a child has been excluded, something that will stay on his educational record, when really confiscating the article and returning to the parents with a quiet word is what was really needed.
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I suppose that the parents should be grateful that armed police weren't called to shoot him!
I once took a toy gun to school because I didn't know it wasn't allowed. It was given back to me after school. I wasn't even told off, just told it wasn't allowed. That was 30 years ago though.
ReplyDeleteThis womans drivvel is ludicrous. She's obviously one of those who fear guns in all their forms.
Notice the way the bloody righteous always use the expression 'not acceptable'.
ReplyDeleteThe headmistress would have wet her knickers at my school in the 60s. One lad brought a .22 cartridge in and we fired it in the metalwork shop using a vice, centre punch and hammer. Bloody good engineering technique although we did put a hell of a dent in the cowl over the workshop furnace.
Toper, I can remember similar at school myself in the seventies. Our chemistry master also ran a lunchtime chemistry club which mainly consisted of making explosives and setting them off on the school field.
DeleteNo diversity drivel for us!
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