[Vision2020] School confiscates third-grader’s cupcakes topped with toy soldiers

[Paul Rumelhart]

This is getting a little ridiculous, don't you think?

Paul


http://news.yahoo.com/school-confiscates-third-grader-cupcakes-topped-toy-soldiers-215018982.html


  School confiscates third-grader’s cupcakes topped with toy soldiers

The Daily Caller – Fri, Mar 8, 2013

In the latest incident of anti-gun hysteria to erupt in a school 
setting, officials at an elementary school in small-town Michigan 
impounded a third-grader boy’s batch of 30 homemade birthday cupcakes 
because they were adorned with green plastic figurines representing 
World War Two soldiers.

The school principal branded the military-themed cupcakes “insensitive” 
in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, reports 
<http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-confiscates-cupcakes-decorated-with-toy-soldiers.html> 
Fox News Radio.

“It disgusted me,” Casey Fountain, the boy’s father, told Fox News. 
“It’s vile they lump true American heroes with psychopathic killers.”

Fountain explained that his wife had made the cupcakes. His son, Hunter, 
helped decorate them. The following morning, Fountain’s wife brought the 
taboo treats to the school’s front office, where the secretary 
reportedly remarked favorably on their appearance.

“About 15 minutes later the school called my wife and told her they 
couldn’t serve the cupcakes because the soldiers had guns,” Fountain 
told Fox News. “My wife told them to remove the soldiers and serve the 
cupcakes anyway — and I believe she may have used more colorful language.”

“We’re just taking political correctness too far,” the angry father added.

In a statement to local media, Schall Elementary School principal Susan 
Wright Susan Wright doubled down on her school’s bold stand against 
little green men that represent American soldiers.

“These are toys that were commonplace in the past,” Wright said. 
“However, some parents prohibit all guns as toys. In light of that 
difference, the school offered to replace the soldiers with another item 
and the soldiers were returned home with the student.”

“Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions,” 
the principal also said. “In the climate of recent events in schools we 
walk a delicate balance in teaching non-violence in our buildings and 
trying to ensure a safe, peaceful atmosphere.”

This incident is the latest in a growing line of apparent overreactions 
by school officials to things students have brought to school — or 
talked about bringing to school, or eaten at school — that are not 
anything like real guns.

At Genoa-Kingston Middle School in northeast Illinois, a teacher 
threatened an eighth-grader with suspension if he did not remove his 
t-shirt emblazoned with the interlocking rifles 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/27/junior-high-teacher-tells-kid-to-remove-marines-t-shirt-or-get-suspended/> 
insignia of the United States Marines. *(RELATED: Junior high teacher 
tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get suspended) 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/27/junior-high-teacher-tells-kid-to-remove-marines-t-shirt-or-get-suspended/>*

At Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, a student was 
suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped a 
strawberry, pre-baked toaster pastry 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/second-grader-suspended-for-having-breakfast-pastry-shaped-like-a-gun/> 
into something resembling a gun. *(RELATED: Second-grader suspended for 
having breakfast pastry shaped like a gun) 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/second-grader-suspended-for-having-breakfast-pastry-shaped-like-a-gun/>*

At Poston Butte High School in Arizona, a high school freshman was 
suspended 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/02/high-school-freshman-suspended-for-having-a-picture-of-a-gun/> 
for setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his 
school-issued computer. *(RELATED: Freshman suspended for picture of 
gun) 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/02/high-school-freshman-suspended-for-having-a-picture-of-a-gun/>*

At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, school officials reportedly 
yelled at a student and then searched her in front of her class after 
she was found with a paper gun 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/24/philadelphia-girl-searched-berated-for-having-a-gun-made-of-paper-at-school/> 
her grandfather had made for her.* (RELATED: Paper gun causes panic) 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/24/philadelphia-girl-searched-berated-for-having-a-gun-made-of-paper-at-school/>*

In rural Pennsylvania, a kindergarten girl was suspended for making a 
“terroristic threat” 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/29/hello-kitty-bubble-gun-comment-lands-5-year-old-in-school-suspension/> 
after she told another girl that she planned to shoot her with a pink 
Hello Kitty toy gun that bombards targets with soapy bubbles.

At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Maryland, a six-year-old boy was 
suspended for making the universal kid sign for a gun 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/03/maryland-school-suspends-six-year-old-boy-for-making-gun-gesture-saying-pow/>, 
pointing at another student and saying “pow.” That boy’s suspension was 
later lifted and his name cleared. *(RELATED: Pow! You’re suspended, 
kid) 
<http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/03/maryland-school-suspends-six-year-old-boy-for-making-gun-gesture-saying-pow/>*


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