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Georgia Teacher Suspended After Pretending to Shoot 1st Graders to Teach Them About Newtown

Feb. 16, 2013 8:20am Madeleine Morgenstern

A Georgia teacher was suspended after he pretended to shoot first-graders to teach them about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

The teacher at Odyssey School in Newnan, Ga., identified as Mariano Pacetti, was playing a kind of hide-and-seek game where he encouraged students to hide while he pretended to be a gunman, the Newnan Times-Herald reported. He formed a gun with his fingers and pointed to one boy and said, “Bang you’re dead.”

School director Andy Geeter told the newspaper Pacetti “exercised poor judgement” in the activity, which some parents said gave their children nightmares, according to WAGA-TV. Twenty first-grade students and six adults were killed when a gunman shot his way into the school in Newtown, Conn. and opened fire before killing himself in December.

Pacetti is a middle school band instructor who was substitute teaching a first-grade physical education class. Letters went home to parents about the incident, and Pacetti, described as one of the school’s most popular teachers, was suspended and ordered to undergo professional training, WAGA reported.

“It was an administrative decision made by me after conversations with the parents, classroom teacher and Mr. Pacetti as well as consultation with our head of school. He is now back at work,” Geeter said in an email to the Huffington Post.

The school offered the students counseling, though none accepted the offer.

“There are things that you can and can’t do, and it shows, if nothing else, that you just can’t do security off the cuff. You have to train and prepare for it,” Geeter told WAGA.

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Rayseafus
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 1:24pm
By all means gather all the little children and hide them from all the evil in the world. Do not prepare them for adulthood. Then when they reach their adult age release them to face reality.
Watch what happens.
I got my first cap and pistol cowboy outfit when I was five years old. Played cops and robbers until I matured. Some kids never age and play paintball. Look how warped and maimed mentally they are. Tsk Tsk.
We have become a nation of namby pambys.

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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 3:47pm
  The last thing we were concerned about when I went to school was some crazy walking into the school and shooting up the place. They were busy making sure that we understood that Marijuana was just the same as LSD and Heroin. That if we smoked it we would see skeletons chasing us and would jump off of tall buildings thinking we could fly!
  
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- Rayseafus
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 5:18pm
  My brother in law went to a party at the University of Georgia Athens as a guest of a friend. Someone offered him something to drink. The friend later on stopped him from climbing over a third floor balcony railing. He told me he honestly believed he could fly and was going to show them how. He even quit pot after that.
  
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- BehindBlueEyes
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 5:24pm
  @Water-the-tree
  I remember seeing the film Reefer Madness. I’m not sure if it was shown in school or where I saw it. The film had one scene that showed a stoned kid drinking something from a broken glass bottle and blood was running down his face.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:50pm
  If there were a fire in the school would not the have fire drills to evacuate the kids??? Why not the same with a school shooting…or when I was growing up, the missile threat from Cuba, to drop and hide under the desk! This is training for the possibility of the real thing!!!!
  
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- JediKnight
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:38am
  I hope you’re kidding about the paintball remark. I’ve never played paintball in my life, yet I understand and respect guns. I’m also not mentally warped.
  
  Not everyone grows out of cowboys and indians and into paintball.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:56am
  Okay, well this is Georgia – the Same State that elected Johnson (D) to congress and he thought Island Guam would tip over and slide into the ocean. Do i need to say more?
  
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- Rayseafus
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:14pm
  “I hope you’re kidding about the paintball remark. I’ve never played paintball in my life, yet I understand and respect guns. I’m also not mentally warped.”
  
  Yes I was kidding…A good friend of mine is in his late 60′s and into paintball. He’s a little sore on Mondays but enjoys it.
  
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- kathy@49
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:40pm
  Add your comments
  
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- kathy@49
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:45pm
  Trigus, Your comment was an insult to Georgians who did not vote for Johnson or any fool like him. I could make the same remark about almost any State considering some of the idiots representing them. Every state has its share of low-information fools who vote for the person’s race instead of whether they are qualified for the position they are running for.
  
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- kathy@49
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:51pm
  Trigus, You insulted all of those Georgia voters who did not vote for Johnson. I suspect that all states have low-informtion voters who vote for idiots like Johnson because of their race. Georgia is no different in that we have the same type of idiots.
  
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BlasberryStrat
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 12:47pm
*** INDOCTRINATION ***

Changing the Country is being done within EVERY school, to EVERY child. How many times did Oby speak at schools and told the kids to go home and ‘challenge and encourage’ parents to vote for him. Many friends outright tell my wife and I that we are being ‘selfish’ for not having children. WHAT!? I guess it’s better to subject kids to two or three different sets of values (home / family, school / political, church / political), then just beat the hell out of them when they’re so confused they don’t know what to do.

To completely use the school setting in order to shape minds for a political and global agenda is something that is made for science fiction stories. Yet the schools have been on the top of Obys brainwashing agenda since day one and most parents don’t have a clue. Just wait until it’s your kid who truly believes that Michelle and Oby are his “mom and dad”, and ‘challenges’ you to give him a third term. The schools that have anthems to Oby that the children sing over and over are changing the setting of him from being a simple President to a DEITY. And HE KNOWS THIS!

Read / study about “Hitlers Youth”. There is a ton of information that will open your eyes. Oby is not moving quickly, but rather slowly indoctrinating two generations of young people who will embrace him as their true leader and father. Hell, he’s already got Chris Rock and Hollywood.

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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 4:08pm
  Finger guns are indoctrination to socialism? Damn, I used to indoctinate the heck out of my friends with the power of a finge gun when I was a kid.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 6:59pm
  Give up whatever it si to homeschool your children – there is no iPhone or cable TC or designer tennis shoe worth the mind of your cbild
  
  Id I still had kids of school age, I would eat eaman noodles, dogg food, whatever to insure my kids weren’t in the gov’t indoctrination centers
  
  Nike skeakers, cable TV, iPhones, whatever – no comfort – is as important as our children
  
  Sadly – for most – even the one who piss and moan here – they are not willing to do the hard things – can’t give up me time, can’t lose my job, can’t have anyone call me names, dislike me, can’t give up my iPhone, can’t give up my cable tv, can’t give up anything that would make me uncormfortable
  
  If and until we are willing to do the hard things – give up our “comforts” – Until we are willing to really be willing to stand in the lions den shouting MARANATHA – we are nothing
  
  I do not relish the thought of being a human torch to light the rose garden of Nero. I do not relish being a Coptic Christian – as are the family of my neighbors who weren’t fortunate enough to win the visa lottery – while illegals crept across the border and will get amnesty from Obama
  
  I have had enough – I will not be silent – I will not comply – Come get me
  
  I already turned myself in when DHS branded me a criminal since I espouse the Tea Party & Biblical Pinciples
  I sent them everything they need to know about me – DOB, place birth, paents, distinguishing characteistics, bith marks, tatoos. GPS coordinate
  
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rochrealtor
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:52am
remove your children from this school until the school regains common sense.

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- horseman43
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 12:53pm
  “A Georgia teacher was suspended after he pretended to shoot first-graders to teach them about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.”
  
  Why did he feel as if it was his job toi tech children about anything other than academic subjects to try to help them get an education?
  
  The one and ONLY answer to these ghastly situations is to home school any way you possible can.
  
  It’s possible to teach kids what they learn in public schools from 3rd to the 8th grade in about a year and a half. The rest of the time spent there is a waste.
  
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- GrandpaOf4
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 1:05pm
  If I still had any school aged children I would remove them from ANY public school. Not because of events like this but because they are receiving a third rate poor education for four times what it should cost. So. Get your kids out of the public school. Home school or private school. No excuses.
  Sorry public school teachers. Nothing against you but the place you work is failing. It isn’t your fault.
  As far as this guy goes this lesson was a bad judgement on his part. Not because it was a bad judgement to teach kids there are simple things they can do to protect themselves in a threatening situation but because anything like this should have been cleared with the school administration. The first lesson in modern America survival? Cover your a$%. Lota lawyers out there and they are armed with tons of red tape and resource wasting bs.
  This fellow didn’t clear it with the office. Bad call. The lesson he gave isn’t harmful. Pretending that “it could never happen here” is. Regardless of the lesson value not clearing it with the bureaucrats in charge was a mistake.
  Keep your behavior in line comrades or we will punish you.
  
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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:37am
When I was in the first grade we were told to duck under our desk and cover our head to protect ourselves from the nuclear detonation and the 5000 degree heatwave that was about to consume us.

We are now raising a nation of ritalin drugged cowards and pu**ies.

I can’t believe there are any elementary school teachers left?

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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:43am
  any MALE elementary school teachers.
  
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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 4:12pm
  I wish all those wanting to remove their kids from school would quit whining about it and do it. Classrooms are crowded anyway.
  
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- lcuvillier
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 4:12pm
  I thought about the same thing…of course, I can’t stand any public indoctrination system, because if you apply any common sense instruction, they automatically suspend you and re-assign you to your own re-indoctrination center…
  
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justasurvivor
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:20am
“Pacetti is a middle school band instructor who was substitute teaching a first-grade physical education class.”
Wol there’s your problem. We orchestra and choir teachers would NEVER do that.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:42am
  Raising more sheltered and overly protected wusses that will become future “take care of me” Democrats.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:21am
Am I the only one that read the headline as “Newton” instead of “Newtown”? I thought it was a lesson on gravity.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:35am
  WOW a missing W really gets ya huh. Does it make you feel smarter than everyone else to point that out? Are you God Mr.perfect??? I can’t stand when people point their fingers at others over STUPID shi! My fifth great grandfathers signed up for the revolutionary war with an X. Guess you got a problem with that to HUH?
  
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- FlagWavingPatriot
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:53am
  I was poking fun at myself, you idiot, not the author.
  
  Lay off the drugs.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:06am
  Sorry FLAG i get enough flack over my spelling that when ever i see something like that blood shoots out of my eyes. No drugs here IDIOT! I don’t think you were making fun of yourself either….
  
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- afvetfirewoman
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:43am
  flagwavingpatriot – caught your sarcasm. Stop, Drop and roll is also a lesson in gravity.
  
  Civilwarcometh – love your posts, but clearly, this guy was joking. We’re all on defense now. It’s sad but not unwarranted.
  
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afvetfirewoman
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:12am
Glad to see the teacher was held to the same standard as the 6 year old that cut out the paper “gun”, and the little girl with the “Hello Kitty Bubble gun” and the little boy who was “dispended” for throwing the “imaginary grenade at the imaginary bad things.” Otherwise he would be screaming that other four letter “F” word – “Fair” as in it’s not “Fair”.
Moron.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:25am
  Get the unions and government out of our schools and 90% of the problems with education will be gone….
  
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- afvetfirewoman
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:41am
  civilwarcometh – agreed!
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 4:14pm
  Your post shows just the reason we are going to be overrun by our enemies. We are harassing five year olds for playing fake grenades, while our enemies are teaching their five year olds to use real ones.
  
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maggiepie
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:04am
If the kids are not asking the teacher, why bring up the incident. It is not up to the teacher to
explain what happened. It is up to parents to speak to their children and put them at ease.
PARENTS, DO SOME PARENTING.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:38am
  Soon little Jimmy can just say he’s a girl and can go into the girls bathroom and point something else at them.http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/state-mandate-allow-boys-in-girls-locker-rooms/
  
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- Galvanized
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:42am
  Exactly what I was thinking. in fact here is the draft I was about to post.
  
  In 1st grade there are plenty of fundamentals those children should be learning that take precedence over recent events, and that is what the teacher should be focusing on.
  
  However if the subject of any shooting was brought up by a student, then as an adult explain it to them in a calm and respectfull way that they will understand. This allows them to process the information understanding what happened and why it was wrong for it to happen. Only after that can a organized drill be conducted (not some hide and seek, bang your dead type of thing).
  
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- afvetfirewoman
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:53am
  civilwarcometh – now that’s FUNNY! He’ll apologixe and bake them a cupcake in his new EZ Bake oven.
  
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- afvetfirewoman
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:57am
  Civilwarcometh- Now that’s FUNNY. Not to worry, he an apologize later by baking them a cupcake in his EZ Bake oven.
  
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- HI_Don
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 1:42pm
  Actually I disagree, I think it IS important teachers bring up NEWTOWN. I think if you never have a plan – since obviously the government isn’t going to protect you – the cops wont get there in time, then as a teacher you better have a plan. My wife runs a school. The practice fire drills having everyone learn how to orderly but quickly get out, assemble and account for every person. They practice bomb threat in a similar fashion but with the assembly area further from the school. And they practice LOCKDOWN drills as well. You have to be able to tell the kids why your doing something, and what the results will be if you don’t do it right. They tell the kids they will die and burn in a fire if they don’t follow instructions. Why not illustrate how they will be victims if they don’t take the right actions. Do you want your child’s first lockdown to be a time they giggle and squirm and don’t take it seriously? Isn’t Newtown the RIGHT reason for teachers to be having these discussions? Further, they are reasons we should be taking the right actions to DEFEND our schools and our children. I am NOT for gun control unless your talking about Aim, breathe, squeeze, repeat.
  
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Warphead
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:49am
Don’t you think this insipid overreacting about any reference, from a child in Kindergarten pointing his finger to older kids playing cops & robbers, to a gun has gotten to the point that “adults” need to step in and stop it? I mean seriously. From the time I was old enough to start playing I had a toy gun. As I grew up through the years I progressed from fake toy guns, to cap guns, water guns, BB guns, pellet rifles, Co2 powered BB & pellet guns, .22 rim fire guns, shot guns, 30-06, .45 handgun, and many others. All of my friends that I grew up with as well as most other kids that I went to school with had guns. I am 50 years old now and in all those years I have never heard of one instance where any of my friends or school mates ever took a gun and went on a shooting spree. The statistics bear out the truth & it turns out that guns are not the issue. It seems that those most responsible for an atmosphere in which gun violence occurs is the very same people fighting the hardest to have my guns taken away. I’m not talking about the government, they have a different agenda and are only capitalizing on recent tragedies as a means that agenda to came to fruition. Who I am talking about is the liberal, especially the liberal that makes millions of dollars in Hollowwood making films to sell to young people glorifying gun violence. I wonder just how many of them would stop making those films if it resulted in a substantial salary drop. Then their is the dirty

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- Conservative2
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:17am
  Your right on point here! So what’s changed between back then when we all grew up in a different world? When is it not ok to let Kids be kids any more? Kids live in the fantasy world, it’s part of their growing up to fantasize their tv heroes, we all did it!
  
  What’s at play here is the Progressive’s agenda, they know we adults would never give up our guns with an out right ban on fire arms, they know there would be civil war in this country if they went on with legislating gun confiscations! So their path to this utopia is to indoctrinate our kids at the youngest age possible, making them fear the Gun in the way they see all fire arms, as deadly weapons that don’t need to exist in a civil society. It’s obvious they’ve gone over board, but they don’t care since they man most city, state and federal governments. So what appears like BS to us is only their actual beliefs. This will not change until we actively change those in power that dictate what the policy is, it has to take place at every level if we are to succeed. Until then expect a generation of Kids that are extremely fearful of all guns, even toy guns. Expect the left to start banning toy guns next…..
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:49am
  little American secret. I know, which one right? We do have so many. I’m talking about the secret the medical profession and the pharmaceutical companies are not wanting to talk about. What they don’t want everyone to know, but the lid is coming off anyway, is that all of these “anti-depressant, psychotropic, ADD and many other brain chemical changing drugs.are having some really nasty side effects in our children. You’ll never believe it but one of those side effects is sudden violent behavior. I have heard but have not found conclusive proof that all of the people that have made the headlines recently by killing others (mostly mass public shootings) were taking some form of these drugs. Personally I would not be surprised. Now let’s move on to the final player in this all out war on the 2nd Amendment. Ding, Ding, Ding, you win a prize!!! Yes it’s our favorite uncle. You remember uncle Sam don’t you? Why of course you do. Johnny let’s see what our lucky contestant has won behind door No3. Oooh, Aaah. Yes, It is. A complete set of plans to completely remove the established government of the USA and replace it with, THE NEW WORLD ORDER. Oooh, aaah, clap, clap, clap. But wait there’s more. Yes Johnny. As a bonus we’re throwing in absolutely free plans for gun control that leads to confiscation. That’s right Johnny. Plans taken directly from the masters like, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin and many more. Why the public won’t know what hit them. See Johnny, the
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:06am
  these giants of Tyranny, better known as New World Order today, knew all the tricks. Each and everyone knew that to seize control of a country and it’s people the very first thing they would have to do is take their ability to fight. That would be their guns Johnny. But hold on. They just couldn’t do it all at once for no reason. The people would become suspicious. For it to be successful they knew the people, or a large percentage of the people would have to ask for it. That’s right Johnny, the people actually asked for it. How? That’s easy. First you infiltrate their media outlets with NWO drones. That would be people that cannot thing for themselves. Then anytime a crime with a gun is committed the drones play it over and over and over across the TV’s, radios, and Internet. Your drones will tell the public that it is those terrible guns causing this. What Johnny? How do they get people to commit these gun crimes. That’s easy Johnny. While in grade school you have teacher drones single out the unruly or “different children.” Then you contact the medical drones to give these “different kids” medication because you have diagnosed them with a mental illness. No, no not a problem. If the parents refuse you contact a legal drone and the parent will be arrested for “child endangerment” if they do not allow the drugs. If they still say no? Gotcha covered Johnny. The legal drone declares the parent unfit and take the child. Yea, It really works. After so many years of
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:35am
  drugs and the amount of kids that take them why it’s a guarantee that a few of them will loose it. What do I mean by loose it Johnny? Well it’s a secret but I’ll tell. Those drugs to help those “different kids” well, it makes some of them become violent. Yea, like getting a gun and killing a bunch of people, violent. Oh, and then there is the Hollowood drones. What they do is to make super great movies with lots of shoot-em,ups and mass killings. This gets those “different kids” on those helper drugs primed and ready. It called desensitizing. Makes those kids think it’s normal to just shoot up a school. I know. It is pure genius. Evil, but genius. So, all of a sudden you have shoot-em-ups popping up all over. People are scared and they run to good old uncle Sam to help them. The media keeps saying it’s the guns and Uncle Sam agrees wholeheartedly. Even the medical experts say “It’s the guns. So Uncle Sam say’s “I know how to help” We will make everyone register their guns. This will fix the problem. But what the people don’t understand is that will do nothing. Actually Uncle Sam wants all the guns registered so he has a list of who owns what and exactly where they are. So Johnny you want to know what happens when the shoot-em-ups keep happening. This is the good part. Uncle Sam declares he’s had enough. He say’s the people cannot handle having guns. He say’s for the safety of “The Children” he is ordering all the guns be surrendered to him. If you don’t g
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:46am
  your guns? Johnny were you paying attention? Remember that list Johnny. Oh yeah, now you remember. Well Uncle Sam he takes that list and sends out people, wait, this is great, WITH GUNS, gees you couldn’t make this stuff up, he sends people with guns to take… your guns. Haaa, haaa, haaa. So there it is folks. A nation of people that gave up the one tool they had to prevent the fall of their nation and turned it over to the very people it was intended to be used against. What happens next Johnny? Well, do you remember those old black & white movies, yeah the old boring ones with no sound showing lots of men with funny steel hats & guns helping other people who had hardly any clothes into those train box cars. That’s what will happen Johnny. No not everyone. Just the ones who didn’t want help from their good old Uncle. No Johnny I can’t say more. We have impressionable young people in the audience. Wouldn’t want any of them getting any “bad” ideas now would we Johnny. Johnny? Johnny are you alright? You look pale. Was it something I said?
  
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china clipper
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:45am
Ban fingers.

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:37am
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said he must hold out his hand
Take your money for a Jay-Z fan
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be Commies today
Make our Children Pay and Pay

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BlackCrow
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:26am
Idiot

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:41am
  I couldn’t read the story from a fear of the whole snow tiger on the world sign. So scary. I feel that my emotions have been altered and am now skeered into hysterics. Where is my counselor?
  
  HOME SCHOOL.
  
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jungle J
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:20am
We played those games all through our childhood..now the system is infected by the progressives with the progressive poison designed to weaken us a a society…only the sane understand. The mentally ill can be very devious when it leads them to attracting more of their kind…only the sane understand.

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- rambosharley
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:41am
  Why do people send their children to BIG Government indoctrination centers?
  
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Gonzo
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:18am
Yes, let’s not talk about it. Maybe it will go away.

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- circleDwagons
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:47am
  The problem is that there is Zero tolerance in school these days. If they follow the school’s rules he could be banned from the school. Zero tolerance equals Zero brains
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:19am
  Wagons, when I was a kid we had nuclear attack drills and we all survived without having nightmares and trauma and we weren’t offered counseling. If I had gotten counseling, I would have asked how they figured a half inch piece of particle board with chewing gum stuck to the bottom of it was going to save me from a nuclear blast.
  
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Advection
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:14am
I wouldn’t suspend her for her methodology but her attempt. Teaching kids about things like this is their PARENT’S job.

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- jungle J
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:22am
  Your misogyny is showing.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:24am
  The teacher was male. Why comment if you can’t be bothered to read the scant 200 or so words in the article.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:24am
  Advection
  
  In most cases I would agree with you but in this case the parents are not at the school where they can teach their child the best locations, exits etc.
  So I say the teacher had good intentions and was doing a service to the children and the parents.
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:00am
So the Kids are having Nightmares . I never would have seen that coming.

Just maybe the children watch to much TV. because the liberal media outlets and politicians have been running anti-gun propaganda 24/7 .

Don’t feel bad…They give me nightmares too.

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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:56am
Moral to the story. You’re damned if you’re proactive, you’re damned if you’re not.

Some are saying that this was “age-inappropriate” instruction for these 1st graders.

And in the classrooms down the hall, the second graders in Ms Headwrong’s class are listening to an invitee from the LGBT community talk about the fun and frivolity of being a pre-operative tranny, sarc.

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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 4:38pm
  My dad used to play a this game with me when I was a child. Liberals apparently took that all away. And doing the same as a form of teaching that as a child I would have thought was the coolest thing to ever happen in a classroom is socialism. (I guessing more felt that way than the “some” who had nightmares). Ive substituted, (never will again) and you will use any game to get them from tying you to the chair and lighting the room on fire. (You all should try it some day) Im having a hard time believing this is not more of a case of hating teachers, and less of people, many of whom are real gun owners, being upset over a finger gun. Unless America is that sensitive now.
  
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SolitudeBliss
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:54am
And kids in elementary school were never taught about drop and cover for a nuclear blast. You want to talk about nightmares talk about Nuclear holocaust in the 50s

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:07am
  Solitude
  Tell me about it.
  
  Kids today are taught to “drop and cover” when it comes to:
  
  The climate
  Personal responsibility
  Freedom
  Truth
  Self defense
  Bullies
  Life in general
  
  And much much more!
  
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- LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:08am
  Great point. Was just thinking about that.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:38am
  As scary as those “Drop and Cover” drills were, they were a part of an actual designed class. Nothing impromptu about them like Mr. Pacetti did. As I recall those classes in my early years of school, and I started in the late ’50s. We watched films, followed by the teacher or a guest teacher giving a class following an established lesson plan. Each class ended with a discussion where the teacher tried his/her best to answer questions from the students. Pacetti has an agenda that is well established in the left. He took advantage of his captive audience in a Physical Ed class to build Hoplophobia into the everyday lives of the children. He is doing his best to develop that irrational fear of guns and as Rush says, filling those heads full of mush. I for one am glad to read that he was suspended, and since he is in the south and there are still some sane people in the are regarding this subject, I hope that he is dismissed.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:47am
  Oh yeah, not to mention how many of these kids who have done the same thing or similar with their hands and have actually been arrested! Its a mixed up crazy world…..
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:55am
  RJJ
  
  Mixed up and crazy for sure.
  Funny I was thinking last night that I was one of those teenagers that you would have had to arrest.
  “No kid I dont beleive that is oregano”
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:22am
  OLDSURFRAT, LOL, in the early days when we had more discretion allowed, I would more likely have taken into consideration a variety of things such as the demeanor of the youth, quick NCIC background check for priors, plus the amount of product discovered. More likely I would have turned that youth over to his parents along with a detailed explanation along with showing them what had been discovered as well as a peek at the small Becton-Dickinson marijuana test kit and how it had turned color to a deep purple. I was never without a heart, and my feelings were it would be better to let the parents deal with it rather than putting them into a financial horror of entering the courts system. At the same time I would have taken into consideration the parental reaction before I made my final decision. Naturally, the “product” would have been turned in as contraband, and every detail of the event would have been recorded in notebook. If there was a repeat offense, the results would end differently. I was never without heart, common sense, and an understanding that we used to be real families. Think about it now, who would you have rather faced first back then? Your father, or an arraignment judge? Frankly, going into the court system would have very likely had your family on your side, while having to face your parents would have a better effect of keeping it from happening again.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:49am
  Hi RJJ,
  
  Do you have the air-raid drills? We did once a month at 11am with a loud siren on top of a 20 foot pole.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:52am
  When I was in high school we once did a super TP job on the school that we were playing for our home coming game.
  
  While in the middle of what we considered a true work of art the whole place lit up like the sun had suddenly risen. Next we hear this loud voice from the sky saying sheriffs office DON’T MOVE!! Apperntly they thought we were the group doing B&Es to the local schools and were sure they had the guys.
  Anyway 12 teenagers went 12 different ways.
  I was on the roof of the building and could see the ground units chasing the runners so opportunity arose and I jumped. My buddy had made it to his car so I hopped in and off we went with head lights off.
  “Man we did it we got away. Those poor other suckers”
  Well about 3 blocks latter the whole world lit up again and we had red & blues in front of us and behind us.
  We pulled over and were greeted to many weapons drawn (rightfully so) They made us get against the wall of a store (get those legs further apart, Further!!!)
  I was cuffed grabbed by the shirt and the seat of my pants and thrown in the back of one of the cars, face down with my pants up my crack and the smell of dog **** on my shirt that I had landed in when I jumped.
  
  Any way I sat up in time to watch them searching the car. Please don’t look under that seat, please, please! Oh crap they looked.
  Out came a bag of pot and a bong. I will never forget seeing the cop put it back under th seat and close the door. “Surely we are doomed. My dads gon
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:00am
  RJJ Continued
  
  My dads gonna kill me”
  Well they figured it all out, took us back to the school and made us clean up while waiting for our parents to come and get us.
  
  You know NOTHING was ever said about the pot and it was there the next morning when my buddy went out to his care.
  I got a real eye opener that night about most cops being good people and started calling them Officer from that point forward.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:22am
  Hi MONK, yes we did and I had intended to mention those noisy things. They went off at various times and if it occurred while we were in school, we were expected to comply with the drill. Also, a teacher and I even recall the principle stepping inside the doorway would shout “Drop and cover.” And, we were expected to comply rapidly. Frankly, it was a diversion from what was usually a dull, dry class. So, we often didn’t mind.
  OLDSURFRAT, LOL, speaking of TPing the opposing school ground, I recall doing the same thing. We used to stop by a local market before the game, then afterwards run a chicken up their flagpole if it was an away game.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 1:07pm
  RJJ
  
  As an ex-cop from AL you may love the last part the most.
  
  When the officer that had the car got in he was this huge good old boy. Keep in mind I was a surf rat.
  He got in and looks back “WTH do I smell??? “BOY you $h-it yourself or something?”
  “Listen here boy xxxxxxxx high school is my alma mater. Did you know that??”
  
  At that time I still did not know that we were headed back to the school and had all kinds of pictures in my head of him taking down some dirt road and beating the snot out of me.
  Was never so glad to see the other police cars and some of my buddies cleaning up all that TP.
  
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:42am
Ya know on this one I might have to agree with the teacher. If you cant arm the school at least teach the kids how to run and hide.

“The school offered the students counseling” Give me a break!

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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:55am
  Hi OldSurfRat,
  
  School; “Would you like some extensive psychological therapy Child”
  
  1st grade Child; “What’s dat”
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:01am
  Hey there Monk
  
  I had plenty of “extensive psychological therapy” as a kid. Back then they called it LIFE.
  
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- WAP
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:02am
  Yeah…they offerred counseling. The counselling is to be performed by the same people who di the McMartin-Buckey preschool counseling a few years ago. At least some of us remember how that turned out!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:18am
  Hi Guys,
  
  Counseling = Ritalin and Prozac. : (
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:27am
  Monk
  
  Yeah been saying that for many many years.
  Feed em pills but weed is evil.
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:40am
  “Would you like some extensive psychological therapy Child? Take these mind altering psychiatric drugs and visit a theater……”
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:42am
  Hi OldSurfRat,
  
  If they could get the Children “marked” as having a mental issue with pot they would.
  
  We have an entire generation that has been falsely “marked” and will be banned from owing guns.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:52am
  Monk
  
  Well with all the partying that I did as a teenager I am not just marked. I’m at the top of the list.
  COOL I have never been at the head of the class before. I feel like the valedictorian (:
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:52am
  Monk. The kids are being taught to be afraid of guns.
  
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- 50211bs
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:19am
  Oldsurfrat, don’t forget to teach them to grab the scissors.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:14am
  This is what you must know:
  
  Goodnight, goodnight, until we meet again
  Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehn ’til then
  And though it’s always sweet sorrow to part
  You know you’ll always remain in my heart
  Goodnight, sleep tight, and pleasant dreams to you
  Here’s a wish and a prayer that every dream comes true
  And now ’til we meet again
  Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehn
  
  it is so.
  
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- OldVet
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 12:05pm
  Instead of “hide and seek”, I guess progressives want them to line up against a wall and wait for the shooter. It’s the “PC” polite thing to do, right?
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 2:23pm
  Mr or Ms OLDVET,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Behind you. Too late.
  
  it is so.
  
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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 4:50pm
  This headline should read. “Scientist warn we are creating the most sissified generation of American’s EVER”.
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:42am
Looks like they will have to go through training ,before a teacher can be issued a permit ..

So they can have a registered pointy finger .

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- ARIZONA VETERAN
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 6:10pm
  ahahhaahahha
  
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WAP
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:41am
“…which some parents said gave their children nightmares”

So, we should not teach children about the reality of life because the children might get nightmares? I mean, I have never met an adult that never had nightmares at all when they were children. Nightmares are a part of childhood.

The inference is obvious: the children should spend their childhood in first grade and beyond in “fluffy pillow” land. They should never be taught about anything other than bunny rabbits and Candyland.

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:56am
  WAP
  
  These same parents will let their kids watch movies with all kinds of terror.
  Sound like a bunch of spineless wussies that will raise more spineless wussies.
  
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Thighmaster
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:38am
If guns were illegal would Lincoln still be alive ?

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- skippy6
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:44am
  Yes, he would be 204 years old…..
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:48am
  Hi Thighmaster,
  
  “The cause of death is birth”
  
  Mr J. Krishnamurti
  
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The-Monk
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:33am
“Today’s school for tomorrow’s World” and a Globe?

Looks a little too Agenda 21 to me. Just getting a creepy feeling…..

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Thighmaster
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:30am
That’s the teacher I would want for My kids, I guess he should stick to teaching songs praising Obama.

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The-Monk
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:29am
They sure named their school aptly.

Maybe they should should change the name to…. ☼dysesy?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 9:42am
  Hi MONK, LoL!
  
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