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Second Grader Playing ‘Rescue the World’ at Recess Suspended After Throwing Pretend Grenade at ‘Evil Forces’ (With Adorable Interview!)

Feb. 5, 2013 2:53pm Erica Ritz

7 Year Old Alex Evans Suspended for Throwing Fake Grenade at Pretend Box of Evil Forces During Rescue the World Game at Recess

(Photo: Fox 31)

It’s getting harder and harder to be a kid these days. Back in the day, children frequently played “cops and robbers” and other good vs. bad games at recess and around the house. Now they’re getting punished for it.

On the heels of three 6-year-olds being suspended for making gun signs with their hands during recess and a 5-year-old girl being suspended and labeled a “terrorist threat” for threatening to shoot her friend with a “Hello Kitty” bubble gun, a 7-year-old Colorado boy at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School is reportedly in a similar position.

So what did he do? Apparently the 2nd grader was playing “rescue the world” at recess when he threw a pretend grenade at a make-believe box full of “evil forces.” There wasn’t actually anything in his hand, nor was there a real box.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended,” Alex Evans said. After demonstrating how the game is played, he said he threw fake grenade at the box “so nothing can get out and destroy the world.”

Fox 31 has more on the story:

But his imaginary play broke the school’s real rules. The school lists “absolutes” designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary. Click here to see the Mary Blair “Absolutes”

“Honestly I don’t think the rule is very realistic for kids this age,” says Alex’s mom Mandie Watkins.

Alex is like a lot of 2nd graders, perpetual motion. His mom says the little boy doesn’t understand why pretending to be a soldier was wrong. “I think that when a child is trying to save the world, I don’t think he should be punished for it.” [Emphasis added]

The mother adds that Alex will be staying home until they can get the issue resolved.

Watch young Alex’s interview with Fox 31, below:

(H/T: Cain TV)

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OniKaze
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:24pm
This poor kid did NOTHING wrong… But what he SHOULD have said, is that it was a pretend “Water-Balloon” that “soaks out Evil”…..

Then the school would love him…

PARENTS: DO NOT let your kids grow up to be Pansy-fyed Weenies… It serves no-one to let children grow up to be sheep… Do not hide the reality of violence from children.. Let them see it in all of its glory and horror, and then explain WHY what the just saw was right or wrong…

But trying to hide it from them, only allows them to draw their own conclusions which can be very different from the conclusion you or I draw…

The world is a violent and often dangerous place… Kids need to be aware of that, or else they will be in for a BIG Surprise when reality smacks them in the face..

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:40pm
  That’s right the kid did nothing wrong he was just playing but the drones that run the public school indoctrination centers can’t allow a kid to have his own individual personality,it must be made ‘equal’ with the other kids. If a boy doesn’t learn how to fight and defend himself he’s going to take quite a few beatings by the time he becomes a man. Hell I remember having quite a few fist fights with my friends growing up and the next day we’d be playing baseball or football,no lawyers or police or counselors and we all survived and turned out okay.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:44pm
  SO … is everyone here calling this school to express their dissatisfaction of their idiotic policies? We certainly should be .. the progressives do these sorts of things and THEY ARE WINNING!!!
  
  Pick up your phone and call this school and express your displeasure a policy that NO small child should have to adhere to and NO adult teacher should even think about enforcing upon them.
  
  OR … let the progressives continue to kick your a55e5!
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:46pm
  pretend “Water-Balloon” that “soaks out Evil”…
  
  Ha! Love it!
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:48pm
  Good grief, what’s next? Not being allowed to… Oh, never mind. Whatever I could possibly come up with, I’m sure some whiny liberal already has it on the list of evil things to ban…
  
  Here’s an idea: how about just banning all forms of childhood play? Would THAT make the libs happy???
  
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- stopprintn
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:55pm
  Remember what Eric Holder said years ago?
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyqBxD-3xw
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:55pm
  Have these school administrators completely insane? What is this world coming to when boy’s can’t play war at recess. It’s what kids do. Do you think that by punishing this child you are stopping a potential serial killer in the future….what moron’s……momma home school this child. He’ll get a better education and grow up a better person. Idiots!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:03pm
  @Redfish
  
  Actually, it’s what *BOYS* do. We’re to the last steps now, where basically they’re outlawing being male. This has been a long time coming, and nobody will do anything to stop it.
  
  For example, it’s perfectly ok to play “house” or “pony land” I’ll bet. But war, no, no can do, that’s boy behavior. That needs squashed. The leftist feminists count on us not resisting this.
  
  http://www.patriotsdonotcomply.com/index.php/articles/matron-and-cowards/
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:21pm
  Dear Lord in Heaven…please bring back the day’s of Lawn Darts, Red Ryder BB Gun fights, The Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights, oh you know what I mean…
  
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- spirited
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:47pm
  GI Joe….. and lemonade stands.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:49pm
  @Red, you’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:56pm
  GHOST…
  
  it’s ok to play “house” or “pony land” I’ll bet……
  
  Not so fast… If you play house, sooner or later the single-parent children are going to feel mocked by those playing in a “house” that contains both parents….. and we won’t even get into how horribly it discriminates against homeless kids…
  ….and “Pony Land”?
  Big time no-no.
  We all know what must happen in “Pony Land” when a pony breaks a leg…
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 5:17pm
  When I tell people me and brother would have BB Gun fight’s they would look at me like I was crazy. They’d ask….did it hurt?…hell yes it hurt…it’s a BB Gun stupid. Oh course my younger brother has never been the same since he took that lawn dart in the head….I tried to tell…you throw it straight up and run like hell not stand there and wait for the dang thing..
  
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- SolitudeBliss
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 5:52pm
  How DARE you suggest water balloons? Even pretend, water is scarce and we must indoctrinate the little boy into the ‘Greenie’ agenda as well. Hell, he’d probably get expelled for wasting precious water with a water balloon, even pretend ones. (Stupidity knows no bounds *sigh* sad what we’ve come to)
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 5:52pm
  RED…
  
  lol… painfully familiar with “BB Gun Fights”
  
  We only had one rule:
  
  If someone starts crying, we can’t shoot them anymore until they promise not to tell their Mom.
  
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- OnSheepdogs
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 7:15pm
  Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”
  - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1
  
  Welcome to the future…
  
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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 8:06pm
  The kid should have said he was fighting to save Mother Earth. The would gave him a gold star.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 8:44pm
  We should ban government schools
  
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- MOwithabrain
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:46am
  @JHRUSKY – I’m with you. Speaking as a parent, the school’s list of “absolutes” is borderline ridiculous (the ‘pretend’ part).
  I emailed the principal and cordially, shared my thoughts on this topic. I used to live in Colorado Springs and I could see the liberalism taking over.
  
  All it takes is a couple minutes of your time…email or call the school on how asinine this policy is.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:28am
  Is it time to for actual American to remove their children from this indoctrination camp. Or just file hundreds of thousands of law suits across tha nation in every district for not allowour children to practice their 2cd amendment rights even if its only imaginery practice because of their age.
  
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- jettson
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:21am
  A lot of people will have a hard time but….Find a way to home school. Do what ever you can to get your children out fo there hands. The schools are out of control. There are good teachers but this kind of crap just has to stop. With what they teach about everything but what I want them to teach. They won’t or can’t protect them. In every way you look at it there safer at home. Fine a way to home school. There worth everything to me.
  
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- battles
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:04am
  Possibly the greatest blessing from Obama and his foolish ilk will be when he causes the collapse of the dollar, that should lead to no more schools.
  
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- jemeisne
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:26pm
  https://www.facebook.com/ImaginationAtMaryBlair
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:59pm
  poor kid, no they aren’t allowed to pretend anymore… kid should have told them he was fighting those evil republicans and global warming to save the polar bears with progressive thought grenades
  
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- Maji
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:08am
  No!
  We need to press for criminal action against schools and especially the teachers,administrators
  who terrify these “small children” when they’re 13-14 or a little older!!!
  But to go after these small childrern is “child abuse” and should be acted on…severely!!
  To the point of legal action agsinst the individuals to perpetrate these acts of terror and
  heinous physcolgical brain washing!!!
  We need to make these people suffer for hurting children in the name of bureaucracy!!!
  
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Clownzilla
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:23pm
If this is true I might have to turn my parents in for making me live in a house with floors made out of lava when I was a kid.

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- normalmom
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:45pm
  That is funny I remember playing that as a kid too. I have boys and I am teaching them to be men. We took them out of public school this year.
  
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- MCON29
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 5:08pm
  That was one of our favorite games. We grew up dirt poor and had to use our imagination for everything. Jump from couch to couch because the floor is lava, loved it. We also would climb trees and play tag in them (after watching my brother break his arm I do not recommend this for everyone).
  
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- ConstitutionalLibertarian
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:25am
  Lava’s pretty bad, but we had water with SHARKS in our floors! I grew up in eastern Colorado, and had a very irrational fear of sharks for many years. :)
  
  With regard to the article; this is one of the many reasons why we homeschool. The government must absolutely hate my family. Gun-loving, Bible-believing, self-sufficient, homeschooling, Constitution-respecting Christians that we are. How dare we have no need for our superiors to make rules for us to obey to in order to have a happy and fulfilling life!
  
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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:02pm
  lol, yes, I remember the lava floor years fondly.
  
  I also remember riding in the back of a pick up truck for 3-1/2 hours with my siblings on weekend camping trips, BB gun wars with friends, dragging each other behind a quad to see who could hold on the longest, piling up cushions at the bottom of the stairs & seeing who could jump of the highest step. Shooting grasshoppers with my bb gun so “Rusty” could go eat them. Not to mention all the toy guns passed around during christmas.
  
  During winter, my dad would have me hold the splitting wedge in place while he would use the sledge hammer. That used to freak me out.
  
  Boys used to be encouraged to be tough and do manly things. Now they are taught to be feminine.
  
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jackact
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:23pm
Blue state.
Enjoy.

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- happ77
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:50pm
  Loveland ?
  
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000degrees
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:22pm
Where is this young man’s FATHER?????? In fact, in the last few stories I’ve read similar to this one it has been the mom responding to the insanity. Where are the dads??????

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- thekuligs
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:40pm
  IDK, at work?
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:44pm
  Work, overseas, or absent it seems. Hopefully for the kids it is either of the former two. It could also be that the mother is the more tactful communicator. I would be hard pressed to respond to such idiocy in a tactful and respectful manner.
  
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- 19RANDY59
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 5:34pm
  They might be hiding from child services, at the local meth lab, where no one would think to look.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:22pm
Maybe, instead of scolding kids about playing guns and grenades, we can teach them to not play “save the world”. Guns and grenades, that’s just fine Americana right there. “Save the World” is a progressive wet dream. This boy is clearly receiving conflicting signals at home.

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RLTW
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:21pm
I believe it was Chamberlin who stated after meeting with Hitler that he’d lost his imagination for evil, he somehow believed man had become so modern and civilized that future peace was certain.

This BS is not just about changing history and culture but it’s intended to affect human instinct, the human story even beyond time and culture has always consisted of three things in mythology Creation, fertility and the Hero.

Progressives don’t want heroes; heroes tend to fight evil.

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- RANGER1965
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:44pm
  @RLTW
  
  I enjoyed your statement very much RLTW. It defines this age.
  
  I would like to suggest another reason for the Left’s animosity toward heroes. The fact that they fight evil isn’t the only issue.
  
  It’s the fact that they do…somthing. They don’t just talk about things, they do things. A heroes very existence is anathema to the life of a coward, it discredit’s his life, his works, and his words. The hero must be attacked, discredited, made to look stupid.
  
  The old adage that the media eats it’s own children is true. Any bright light, any purity, any honor cannot be allowed to remain long, because it ruins the media’s credibility regarding the world that they want you to believe in.
  
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toiletclogga
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:20pm
Another example of the feminization of American males. These Liberal Progressives are trying to destory the warrior class of our society! Damn it, enough!

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InaSeaofMorons
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:17pm
Serenity NOW!

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- ADNIL
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 7:13pm
  I remember that episode. It was hilarious!
  
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sspate16
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:15pm
And this is why, if I have kids, they won’t go to public school.

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right field
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:12pm
Perhaps the school and district should also “clearly post” the following in addition to the existing nonsense they adopted as a lame attempt at PC psycho-babble:
“No reasonable attempt will be made to teach anything of use or to impart any useful knowledge to any child enrolled in this school.”

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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:21pm
  She needs to keep him home and away from that school as much as possible. Private or home school him. The school he is in is designed to emasculate and indoctrinate him, they’re worthless diseased parasites sucking down tax payer dollars while mentally molesting small children.
  
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Clownzilla
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:12pm
So we are pretty much turning our boys into a bunch of wimps (I have stronger words but won’t post them). If we castrate our boys now by not letting them play the games boys typically play, it will come back to bite us when they REALLY have to save the world from REAL threats.

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- afvetfirewoman
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:17pm
  But you can buy them an EZ Bake oven, that will make it all better.
  
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- colascguy
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Pansiefy
  
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- Clownzilla
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:21pm
  That’s true. I’m sure our foreign occupiers will have to be fed somehow.
  
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- BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:21pm
  And don’t worry, they are making them in blue now, so that butches it up a bit- right?
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:22pm
  They’ll teach him how to properly pee his pants and put on makeup.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:25pm
  Boys, nay men, have been essentially castrated except for some rural types.
  
  Here are my thoughts on it:
  
  http://www.patriotsdonotcomply.com/index.php/articles/matron-and-cowards/
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:33pm
  It all depends. What will each individual do, when confronted with this type of insanity?
  
  If the parents of this child accepts the suspension, perhaps grumbles a little bit, but continues to let the child go to this school where these values are taught; then you’re right.
  
  If the parents tell the child that he did nothing wrong, and attack the school legally, with public shame, perhaps forcing the school board to change the rules? Then they are teaching their child that he must fight for freedom, that it requires effort, sometimes sacrrifice.
  
  As it is with most things, it is up to the parents. What lesson will the child carry into the future with him?
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:52pm
  Maybe he should have said he was pretending to shoot skeet with a magic wand like our Pretender-in-chief.
  
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- booger71
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:40pm
  I think every kid in America should bring a water gun to school next Monday and squirt each other in class.
  
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Chuck Stein
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:10pm
“no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary.” In a battle of wits, these school administrators would be totally UNARMED.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:28pm
  To claim you can’t have imaginary weapons is mind boggling. How would they know? What if I had an imaginary concealed carry Kahr CW45 and didn’t tell them, would I be in trouble? heh
  
  These people are buffoons. If there are ANY fathers left in this district, and I’m not suggesting that there are necessarily, they need to encourage their sons to all play “war” openly.
  
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- shoulda coulda woulda
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:49pm
  Now we this school in Colorado that wants to regulate imagination, doesn’t that make you want to scream.
  
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BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:09pm
But saving the world isn’t up to little Alex. That’s a job for our lord and savior Obama and his government minons. And if they don’t want the world to be saved, then that is just how it is.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:08pm
no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary.

Keep it up public school indoctrination centers and before you know it you’ll have an army of candy@sses incapable of defending themselves. Sounds like a plan some lunatic progressives would dream up doesn’t it? Probably because that’s exactly what it is a plan to produce pansies by the millions. Kids are trying to be kids and the drones that run the indoctrination centers can’t have that,no, individuality must be stripped from kids and make them all work for the ‘collective’ right?

Parents run don’t walk to get your kids away from those lunatics,I’m surprised the drones didn’t try to
cram some psychotropic drug down the kids throat.

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- afvetfirewoman
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:12pm
  …force psychotropic drugs down his throat….. YET…..
  
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00100111
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:08pm
By this time next year it will be mandatory to only play “My Little Liberal Pony” on the playground. All the ponies will be gay or lesbian, and there will most certainly be no white ponies.

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- OniKaze
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Stop it…. You’re making my sides hurt…..
  
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afvetfirewoman
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:08pm
God loves you, Alex. Keep on saving the world and I’ll join you.
When did we lose our minds? We buy them video games that allow you to shoot people and things but suspend them for “Saving the World?” We castigate our soldiers for fighting in the war our government sent them to???
I’m a proud Vet, and a Proud American but we’re letting this liberal nonsense get out of control. Give it a break!

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:39pm
  I’m pretty sure you can’t shoot actual people and things in a video game.
  
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JWINK56
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:07pm
Add your comments

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mikem1969
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:05pm
OMG, this is soooo stupid. Kids are being kids and getting suspended for it. PLEASE SOMEONE GET THESE MORON LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES OUT OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM. Kids have played these games for hundreds of years, from toy swords to muskets, to toy guns and grenades. Its called cops and robbers or whatever. Let them be kids for God’s sake.

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CWPrequired
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:04pm
But the transgender Boy Scout troop leader down the road is A OK…wink wink.

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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:02pm
So if you imagine a gun, your suspended. Thought police are here everyone. Welcome to the new world.

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DefyTYRANNY
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:01pm
I bet if the kid played “Take over the colonialist lands in the name of the Motherland” It would have been A Ok.

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Chuck7884
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:01pm
Make Believe wow. And the Schools Want Creative thinkers? .

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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:08pm
  They only want people to think like they do !
  
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CWPrequired
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:01pm
Maybe he should have been throwing condoms into the **** box or the morning after pill into the lets kill a baby box instead. That will teach him.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:06pm
  Two daddies adopt a baby is a more socially acceptable game for kids these days.
  
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- afvetfirewoman
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:14pm
  you are dead on…. I’m sorry, “absolutely correct”.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:27pm
  Clown, me too. I did suffer from imaginary PTSD for a while though.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:00pm
It’s all fun and games until that imaginary grenade goes off and puts your eye out kid. Then you’ll have to wear an imaginary eye patch the rest of your life. You want that?

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- JWINK56
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:13pm
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!! LMAO!!!!! Made my DAY! So glad I was a kid in the late 50′s and the 60′s I’d be in Federal lockup with my life like Mattel Shootin Shell Fanner 45
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:16pm
  They’re going to give him an imaginary education G.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:19pm
  I was kid in the 60′s and we didn’t leave the house during summer vacation without some kind of toy weapon attached to us. We didn’t get behavior modifying drugs shoved down our throats and we didn’t kill anybody either!
  
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- Clownzilla
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:19pm
  I can’t tell you how many times I had my imaginary world-saving self injured by everything from imaginary grenades, imaginary lasers, imaginary magic fireballs, imaginary kung-fu moves, etc. I have also wrecked all sorts of imaginary tanks, imaginary spaceships, imaginary jets, and even myself because at times I could just start imaginary flying! Regardless, I came out of it OK and a lot of my character and drive came from playing those “dangerous” childhood games.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:02pm
  When I was a kid, we had BB pistols and would put helmets with face protection on and head out into the woods and shoot at each other. Yeah, sometimes we got “stung”, but no one got seriously hurt. It was great fun!
  
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- booger71
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:43pm
  I took a training grenade to show and tell in the 3rd grade. Probably get a life sentence for that now.
  
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normalmom
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:59pm
These “teachers” need to all be fired if kids can’t be kids in their presence and they make immature stupid decisions like this they are in the wrong job and need fired. I am so sick of things like this happening if they can’t think before they make decisions like this how in the heck can they teach our children anything. Idiots that is all they are these days.

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