IL: preschool suspends 4-year-old for a week over spent .22 shell casing – IOTW Report

IL: preschool suspends 4-year-old for a week over spent .22 shell casing

EAG: COLLINSVILLE, Ill. – An Illinois preschool crushed a 4-year-old’s love for learning this week when administrators suspended the boy for a week for bringing a spent shell casing to school to show his friends.

“He’s cried about it and he doesn’t understand why his school hates him, he said,” the boy’s mother, Kristy Jackson, told KTVI. “I’m not sure how a 7-day suspension teaches my son anything about tolerance or anything about why he was wrong.

“It just means his school doesn’t want him there because of the things he enjoys.”

Jackson explained that her son, Hunter, went with his grandfather – a Caseyville police officer – to learn about gun safety over the weekend and picked up a spent .22 shell casing and smuggled it to A Place 2 Grow preschool in Troy, Illinois to show his friends this week, Fox News reports.

“He was just wandering around in a field and picked it up and put it in his pocket and didn’t tell his parents,” Jackson said.  MORE

28 Comments on IL: preschool suspends 4-year-old for a week over spent .22 shell casing

  1. Well, it’s his first name isn’t it. The 22 casing was all the validation they needed. He’ll have to try another school or change his name. That’s how the progressive game is played.

    Wonder if Walmart would write his name on a birthday cake.

  2. Unbelievable! I bet some worthless administrator thinks he/she did a great job by putting the hammer down on this little kid. If lived nearby I’d bring a few hundred spent shell casings and spread them around the school grounds. That would be like throwing bacon in a mosque.

  3. Find a new school STAT. I don’t know how you can ever fix the problems wrong with this country when this is the caliber of liberal stupidity running our schools.

  4. Smart kid saw it in a field and knew it was worthwhile. I had many ‘prizes’: metal, mechanical, glass, shiny rocks…

    The Administrator’s kid would come home with a firm dog turd (shaped like obama’s head) and think it was invaluable.

  5. So how did a school administrator know what a spent 22 shell is?

    Who ever even thinks or knows about guns should be banned from school shouldn’t they?
    Thinking about a spent 22 is clearly as dangerous as having one. Let’s have that teacher and administrators head on a stake asap.

  6. @joe6pack
    Same thing works great in national parks.

    I have heard of people doing such things near prairie dog towns located in parks in my neck of the woods but I have no first hand knowledge of such activities. Just rumors discovered in a Russian hacking document dump.

  7. Kids should stay home at preschool age. They need as much time in the incubator of their home and the values there — especially if they are conservative values. Don’t let the progtards have them until/unless it’s absolutely necessary. This is a good example of how they start working on the poor kids when they are such vulnerable sprouts.

  8. When I was a kid my cousin brought some live 22 shells to school. he and some of his friends were setting them off by crushing the rim fire ends with rocks. when the school staff found out they gave the boys a good scolding telling them what dangerous a thing they had done and never to do it again! all the boys grew up to be responsible family men. there was no punishment just a reprimand.

  9. Spent .22 shells make great whistles. Curl your fingers with the shell tucked between the middle sections of two fingers and hole just exposed. Then blow a thin stream of air across the top.

    Wonder what the school think of self striking match / clothes pin guns. Or paper match / tin foil rockets?

  10. Back in the pre-enlightened days, in the very early ’70s, when I was on the public school board, students brought their rifles to school for the NRA class after school. Our school system didn’t produce even one mass murderer, nor criminal.

  11. I can’t believe the wife didn’t do a strip search
    and a walk through a metal detector before dropping
    the kid off at school. WTF this country coming too?

    oh yeah….

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