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An eleven-year-old Texas girl and two other children have been suspended from their school because she folded paper to resemble a crude gun shape. Furthermore, the children must attend an alternative school for the month following the suspension, all for folding paper with no intent of any wrongful behavior. “I just thought they would tell us to throw it in the trash or just cut it up and don’t make no more,” the girl said. This raises the question of excessive post Columbine sensitivity in other schools so many years after the horrific 1999 school shooting.
When viewing the folded paper it clearly resembles a gun. However, unless the students were threatening to bring in the real thing, or threatening other students with the folded paper somehow, the punishment seems extremely excessive. After parents and officials spoke to these children it was clear they had no ill intent other than children being children and goofing around.
Public school?
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