NO MORE COWBOYS & INDIANS- NO MORE COPS & ROBBERS
A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS



THE KUHNS REPORT


LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

The laws penalizing children and their parents is getting ridiculous. Where is the common sense with these lawmakers?  Here in Las Vegas the television reporters aired a story that a child was suspended from school because of the ornaments on a cake which the child  brought to school for an occasion. The child had a few plastic toy soldiers atop the cake and guess what happened - -yep, the child was sent home.

Not two weeks ago a national story was aired when the child during lunch nibbled his pasty into a shape of a gun. He two was suspended. In Maryland, two young boys were suspended when they were using their fingers as imaginary guns.

Talk about over reacting? These  teachers and the school system is going overboard. What the teachers and school administrators are  really doing is  usurping a child's right of passage  during their childhood. Come on! Little boys, even girls have always played cowboys and Indians or  cops and robbers running around on the playground or in their  yard pointing their fingers and shouting Bang! Bang! Kids have been playing soldier and playing with toy soldiers from God knows, how long ago. That is the way kids grow up and behave. It's natural stuff.

These nanny, political correct schools and their educators should lighten up and use common sense rather than take away the innocence of  children by not accounting for age, intent and the context at which the finger pointing  of a simulated gun or one made from pastry is being used.  The principals of the schools are assumed to have sense and reasoning and a knowledge of dealing with  children of various ages but it appears that many teachers, principals and others in the educational field  fall far short of what is right and wrong.

What approach is this when the adults in the school cannot distinguish between a pastry nibbled into a make believe gun or a fleshy finger pointing while the child  pretends to have a gun - - - and plastic toy soldiers atop a cake as decoration? Wow! These approaches are clearly not rational and is not adult behavior. The teachers and principals are acting more like children than the children themselves.

What these political correct nanny's are doing is stunting the growth of the child during their developmental years and the actions these teachers are taking against the child could certainly have a detrimental effect on the child in their future interactions with their peers.

I would venture to say that all of these teachers, principals and educators themselves have at one time or another played soldier, cowboy, cop or bad guy as they were growing up. Where in God's name did they lose sight and their reason of what is a threat and not a threat.If a small child brings an actual weapon or a toy that looks like a real weapon to school and brandishes it , then "YES", it's time to take action BUT a piece of pastry, a pointed finger or plastic toy soldiers on a cake. They call that school policy? I CALL IT STUPID. Who sits up nights thinking of these things. I believe the teachers and principals need to go back to school.

Clearly an educator like a principal or teacher should knows the difference between a
teenager and/or adult with a weapon and a child on the playground playing cowboys and Indians.

People, America is going to Hell in a hand basket when we allow our schools to act in such a reckless way. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by email at:
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