Kindergartner suspended for thoughtcrime

[Noland]

My sister sent me the text of this story in an email. For a moment I thought it was from The Onion.

5-Year-Old Suspended Before Graduation - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

 

[Benny]

You mean...That article is...Serious?

 

[JetGirl]

So ultimately...the kid was suspended for doing the right thing.
Sheesh.

 

[JDonhardt]

It really is thoughtcrime.

 

[Integraholic]

 

[EvilleDoug]

When you think you have seen some of the dumbest stuff that could happen, then this shows up.

Poor kid, I bet he thinks twice about doing the right thing in the future, "Hell, I'll be punished anyway, may as well do it"

 

[Knife Lady]

This is absurd. This Principal has a degree?? Of stupidity I think. What a bozo.

 

[Vince49]

Orwell was right he just missed the dates by a few years.The,"Thought Police", have arrived!

 

[Joe Williams]

I think it's cool the parents pressed until the principal was forced to issue the apology he was so dead set against giving

 

[varasha]

And if you were the kids friends, why did you tell on him for doing the right thing? I think its a bad lesson to always go a tell someone of authority when something happens. That only leads to big government and unhappy people. Don't rat on your friends!!! (also don't support crimes)

 

[JetGirl]

Here's another danger... Moonbattery: Suspended for the Rest of the Year Over Party Popper

 

[Integraholic]

And if you were the kids friends, why did you tell on him for doing the right thing? I think its a bad lesson to always go a tell someone of authority when something happens. That only leads to big government and unhappy people. Don't rat on your friends!!! (also don't support crimes)

They are 5 years old. They don't comprehend that kind of thing.

 

[dhnorris]

homeschool homeschool homeschool my nine year old speaks Latin with his mother

 

[Noland]

homeschool homeschool homeschool my nine year old speaks Latin with his mother

Ipsa scientia potestas est

 

[JetGirl]

why did you tell on him for doing the right thing? I think its a bad lesson to always go a tell someone of authority when something happens. That only leads to big government and unhappy people. Don't rat on your friends!!! (also don't support crimes)

It didn't say they did. It says, "when the other boys started talking about it...", so maybe a teacher or someone overheard them just talking about it amongst themselves.
The article isn't very clear on that point.

 

[Colt556]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ****ING ****TING ME!!! The priciple must have been a Kalifornia escapee!!!

 

[04DarkShadowGT]

Wow, what a pathetic shell of a country we have become. We have finally let the overly sensitive who complain about anything even 1% offensive make all the rules.

 

[451_Detonics]

 

[Suprtek]

Holy ! I've had a knife in my pocket every day since I was 9 years old. I guess I'm public enemy number 1!

 

[seamusalaska]

Thought Crime is doubleplus ungood. Send the kid to room 101 in miniluv.