Political correctness reached a new height (or depth) when a six-year-old boy in Ionia, Michigan, was suspended from his Jefferson Elementary kindgarten class for pretending that his hand was a gun and pointing the "barrel" (his finger) at another student. The offender, six year old Mason Jammer, made another student in his class feel "uncomfortable."

Young Mr. Jammer had been warned, school officials said, and so the suspension seemed appropriate to them. His mother, however, thought that suspending her son from school was uncalled for. She explained that young Mason does not understand anything about the reason for what is happening (leading one to question how the suspension will change the young boy's behavior.) The mother added that her son does not even have any toy guns at home. She said "He's just six and he likes to play." Ms. Mason suggested that some less drastic punishment should be tried, like taking away his recess.

The rather surreal situation seems to assume that it is improper for Mason Jammer to understand, to practice, and to enjoin such constitutionally protected activities as target practice and hunting, recreations that some school systems actually encourage (target practice and archery events are sponsored by many schools in the Midwest as wholesome after-school activities.) The young lad also has tradition on his side — he engages in play that many millions of Americans have engaged in for decades in schools and in neighborhoods.

If the school system worries about misuse of firearms, then perhaps it could provide classes for students to learn how to treat firearms respectfully and how to use firearms safely. Perhaps such a class could also instruct students that the Second Amendment — found in that part of our Constitution called the "Bill of Rights" — provides that the right to own and to use firearms is protected. This sort of learning could enable children, as they grew older, to engage in healthy activities like deer and duck hunting, which have been shown to keep children away from drugs, violence, promiscuous sex, and other self-destructive behaviors.

It seems, though, that the Ionia public school system is unlikely to be the pilot area for such a program.

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Flu-Bird said:

PC stupididy Small wonder why our school system stinks when their so into this PC poppycock and this zero tolerence nonsense maybe its time to end compultary schooling abolish the DEPT OF EDUCARION and returned to home or private schooling and ended this idiotic stuff

March 10, 2010

George said:

Get out of government schools Government schools are a complete failure with no hope of getting any better. Parents should pull their children out and homeschool or go to a private school if at all possible.

March 10, 2010

Kathy said:

Political Correctness... This has absolutely ruined our country, internally and externally. It is pervasive the world over. More than ever we need to do away with such nonsense. We have gotten so thin skinned that we feel we are damaged by everything that everyone says. I am not sure how it got started but we should find a way to stop it.

March 10, 2010 | url

xEODGuy said:

The term "political correctness"... Started in the Marxist-Leninist Soviet Union and was picked up by Mao Tse Tung and used heavily in Communist China. It basically meant the "ideaolically correct line", or party line. While it was used in the American lexicon mostly as an ironic and pejoritve term early on, its use here has been morphed to match the older use from our buddies, the Soviets. Seems we Americans are much closer to Socialism/Communism than we thought considering we've adopted most, if not all, of the 10 planks of Marxist socialism as well.

March 11, 2010

Captain Gabe said:

... The real problem is she's not getting a refund for the days the school isn't provider her with service. Another reason to get rid of public schools.

March 13, 2010