Cowboy-style cap gun gets 5-year-old suspended from school in Calvert County | Tennessee Valley Talks

Capt James TPost Master

Interrogated for TWO HOURS without a parent - made wet his pants - pitiful. This is what our education system has become.....

Cowboy-style cap gun gets 5-year-old suspended from school in Calvert County

.....The child was questioned for more than two hours before his mother was called, she said, adding that he uncharacteristically wet his pants during the episode. The boy is 5 — “all bugs and frogs and cowboys,” his mother said......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...c0123c027_story.html

5/31/135:12 PM

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jtdavisOld Faithful

When I was in the first grade, I had a rotten teacher that soured me on teachers for a period of time. I didn't have any experience that could come close to that boys ordeal

direstraitsOld Faithful

The zero exceptions policy has yielded zero IQs amongst the academics. And, hearts of stone.

Red BaronHall of Famer

Idiocy like this will eventually doom public education. Technology is making alternatives such as home schooling easier and more attractive.

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