The state of Florida and Idaho need to be eliminated. They are shaped like a gun. You could throw in Vermont and Oklahoma. If the schools have these states in any maps, then the school is as guilty of this as the student.

Oh how this made me laugh...you are right...any state that is shaped like a gun, knife, or grenade will have to go!

We all "will have to go" because all of us could make potentially make a "gun-like shape" by extending our index fingers and thumbs while curling the remaining fingers.

Thats what we get with Obama's SEIU union teachers (fruitcakes)

Then obviously what we need to do is make all kids wear mittens when attending classes, keep those dangerous gun like index fingers under wraps! Can we get that started in Congress?

And to think that the poster our government put out of Uncle Sam asking for enlistments was pointing his finger at us saying "I Want You!" Now I see...it was really a gun...not a finger;)

We played cops and robbers as well as cowboys and indians all the time. We used sticks for guns as well as our cap six shooters. Our toy guns were allowed at school sans caps for recess play. That was 55-60 years ago and to this date none of my classmates has shot a person. My kids had play guns as children. They wore camo and roamed the woods in search of the bad guy with their toy handguns and rifles. One is even in law enforcement now. Sounds to me like people who get upset over a finger gun or pastry nibbled into the shape of a gun need to go to therapy to get a more realistic perspective on life.

it is already here in Maine i have already had notes and phone calls telling me how i am making my sons life dangerous by being a gun dealer. My school has already been told to watch my son closely because i own guns, and teachers have sent my son home with notes saying if i really loved him i would get rid of all guns.

I don't buy it. If the school sent home a note saying anything of the sort, i would advise taking it to the school board, or higher if that gets you nowhere.

actually i have gone to school board and not only do i have the note i have the recorded calls as all my calls are recorded. school board asked me to leave as it was an issue for the teachers union.

Ooohhh, that would p--s me off to no end!!! I hope you write back "thank you for your concern, but don't you EVER doubt my love for my son again!!!!" Why do these people feel that if you don't do what THEY want (i.e., get rid of your guns), that they have to raise the "you don't love your child" card? (I know it's off the original subject.) So...do you own a shop?

I don't have a shop i am doing mostly special orders gun shows, and hosting some Raffles for nonprofits. But of course right now getting any firearms is a challenge.

How many fighting robots did I draw as kid? How many games of "army" or cops and robbers did we play. And yet, strangely, I've never killed anyone! The school should apologize to this child's family for over-reacting and clear the student's record.

The school's reaction is so ludicrous that it could be a Monty Python skit.

The staffers at the school should be suspended.
And their chances of rehire , anywhere else but greeting at you know where, be wiped clean.

This is getting completely out of control. Kids will be kids. Suspending these kids for stuff like this is ridiculous. It was a damn pastry!! And then to suspend kids for talking about a bubble blowing gun! Really!! There are much more important issues to deal with in the school system besides a bubble blowing gun or a Pop Tart!!!

It is such complete idiocy as this which proves neither the politically extreme left or right can be trusted to think clearly. Holy moly! Extremism has no place in politics and has clearly run amok. I don't think people ought to have a weapons cache of AR's but I also don't think a kid should get suspended for chewing a pastry into a gun shape. Heaven forbid the kid talk about hunting with his dad. Dang, they'd suspend him for life!

Unfortunately this is not the first time a teacher's or school administrator's "book-learnin'" has gotten in the way of their common-sense. Nor is it likely to be the last.

My dad used to call it book smart, common sense stupid.

So first you decry both the political extremes, then you admit to holding views of both! Is that what they call a 'moderate'?

We have gotten to this point by the actions of ONE party - the Democrats! You can't blame this on Republicans (although I[m sure you'll try).

Actually my reply WAS moderate. Your comment proves you are otherwise. As for this issue with the pastry coming from the 'extreme left' I'd agree with you on that. Whoa! Didn't expect that did you? However, as I tried to make clear too, claiming that it makes sense to keep an arsenal of AR's around the house is definitely a problem that originates with the extreme 'right'. Anyone who follows my posts will know that I am pretty much in the middle politically, a moderate, and will criticize extremism regardless of the party from which it originates.

That must be nice, to stand in the middle of the road and criticize everyone else. Be careful, usually those that stand in the middle of the road get hit by both sides!

That's OK, I've been hit before.

Say, which "one" did you win wewon thisone?

Why 'This one', of course!

I feel badly for the family, but this story is a hilarious example of liberalism run amok.

“The chewed pastry was not capable of harming anybody, even if thrown,” says the appeal..... It could not fire any missile whatsoever.” Hahahahahahahaha........

The kid has a 'record'?.... That he has to file an appeal, and hire a lawyer, defies rational thought and common sense. This is where the liberal PC crowd has brought us...teachers afraid of seven year olds with lethal pop tarts....

Another fine example of the Great American Pastime of overreacting. You might expect people who have received a college education (teachers, etc) to recognize their own human propensity to react irrationally. You would be disappointed. I hope the people of Anne Arundel County have a means and the will to suspend the teachers, administrators and staff who traumatized this boy over his breakfast bar.

These instances should be used to educate children, not suspend them. It is getting sooooooooooo ridiculous with the punishments of children that are around the same age as the Sandy Hook Angels. Teach the children, don't punish them.

Educate them HOW? "Now little Johnny, you can't eat your Pop Tart in the shape of an L or some stupid adult might find it offensive!"

Yep, they need to be spoken to as to why the adults in charge are over the top on this subject. Suspending a little kid for chewing his poptart into the shape of a gun is pointless. They do need to be taught about this and why, then drills on what to do so that Sandy Hook can't happen again. It is how the world has come to be - sad but true.

Sad, and just plain stupid! Chastising anyone for eating a Pop Tart is just plain stupid! Drawing any correlation between mundane shapes and Sandy Hook goes WAY beyond stupid! Bet those adults all failed their Rorschach tests!

Educate them? They should already be getting an education in reading, writing, arithmetic, and achievement...Instead they're being socially re-engineered into good little sheep.

Every administrator, teacher, whoever, was involved in these suspensions should be fired and never allowed to be anywhere near a school or children ever again.

What absolute nonsense. What's frightening is the school administrators and teachers who support this type of idiocy.

I guess it's a good thing that I'm not in charge there. I would would have just locked him up in a room with that 6-year old girl that came to school packing the Hello Kitty bubble gun and let 'em shoot it out. Then after all the carnage we'd all go out for ice cream.

Can we say "too uptight"?

The school board needs to wake up, let the kid go and continue his schooling!!!! Get down to the real issues in schools and stop wasting time and money!

Truly a bunch of certifiable nut bags.

“It was harmless,” Welch said. “It was a danish.”

I bet that school board will be coming after him next for being a racist and picking on those poor Danes.

Liberalism is a mental disease

So the school wants to permanently keep a record of their own stupidity on the student's record?

They should suspend the teacher and administrator. This was blown out of proportion, though we do not know the child, they should of talked to him and the parents.

Leave it to Progressive Democrat Liberals to lower public education in this country to this point! It begs the question; Just how much stupider (than the average adult) do you have to be to become a teacher or administrator?

You answered your own question. LOL

I know!

Would this be considered a mass Pop Tarting?

I think we need to send this article to Saturday Night Live.

Colbert could also do a good job with it

Hey, maybe he meant for it to be a squirt gun.

In NJ I worked in the school, saw elementary school kids taken out of school to a psych. hospital for evaluation for playing. Think of your child, sitting in an adult psychiatric hospital. Patients interacting with your child as you wait all day for the only Psychiatrist in the mental hospital on duty. The Dr.s must fulfill rounds. The whole day can pass and if the Dr. does not evaluate your child that has played with lego guns or a pastry, they keep the child. The system has them and ruins them, the parent has no authority and cannot protect their child. They can force them into medications and social area's not appropriate or respectful to their human rights.

In school, gym class one size fits all is failure. Forcing of rally's and assemblies are cruel to those that have been harmed by competitive sports- mandatory class presentations of personal material is very harmful, forcing social/physical requirements onto children is wrong. School shooting after school shooting, the shooter clearly having a history of social issues that were not treated properly. Parents are ignored and labeled. Alienation of the child spirals.

Stop forcing those who need to be private into social arena's that ruin them. Allowing anyone to call you or your child into authorities as a threat without even a discussion to resolve is in violation of our rights.

This is hard to believe Auntie. Which school in N.J.?