Should This 7-YO Boy Have Been Suspended for Army Role-Playing At School?
NOTE: Dreamcatchers for Abused Children does NOT condone this sort of punishment and disagrees with the school’s decision 100%. Playing make-believe and role-playing is a normal part of childhood. This seems very excessive and a bit on the paranoid side on the school’s part. What kind of message is this sending to this child?
7-YO Boy suspended from school for tossing IMAGINARY grenade during recess while pretending he was ‘rescuing the world’
A seven-year-old boy from Colorado has been suspended from school after he lobbed an imaginary grenade on the playground while pretending to be a hero soldier. Alex Evans, of Loveland, said he was playing a make-believe game called ‘rescue the world’ during recess at Mary Blair Elementary School, which resulted in his removal from class after officials said he broke a key rule. The second-grader explained that he tossed an imaginary grenade into a box containing made-up forces of evil, and made the sound ‘pshhh’ to indicate that the explosive had detonated. READ MORE HERE
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