"This week’s outrage comes to us from Winchendon, Massachusetts where, in yet another case of “zero-tolerance” enforcement defying common sense, fourth-grader Bradley Geslak was suspended from Toy Town Elementary School for bringing a Memorial Day souvenir to school.
According to a May 29, Telegram.com article, a uniformed veteran gave the 10-year-old two empty rifle shell casings from blanks used during the town’s Memorial Day celebration Monday morning. Bradley gave one of the empty casings to his grandfather and kept the other as a souvenir. The trouble began when he took his souvenir to school the next day.
“He was just playing with it at lunch,” explained Crystal Geslak, Bradley’s mother. “He wasn't showing it to anyone; he had it in his hand and was playing with it.”
A teacher saw him with the harmless piece of brass and confiscated it. Ms. Geslak was then called at work and told to come and pick up her son, who had been suspended for five days!
Ms. Geslak arrived at the school to find her son in tears. “I was totally shocked. I couldn’t believe this was happening,” she said. “It was just an empty shell, not even from a real bullet. A sharpened pencil would be more dangerous than this piece of metal.”
“He was so proud to have been given them. His dad’s a veteran, his uncle’s a veteran, both his grandfathers are veterans. Memorial Day is a big thing to us. It’s a very important holiday and we have a big celebration every year,” Ms. Geslak said.
Ms. Geslak, who will be forced to miss work in order to stay home with her son, says she is worried about what having a “weapon-related suspension” on his school record will mean to his future.
To add insult to injury, the family says a school official told them that the shell would not be returned, and that the next step might involve assigning a probation officer to Bradley! Yes, you read that right, a probation officer.
A young boy punished over a harmless souvenir. By any standard, that’s outrageous.
If you’d like to express your concern over this incident, please visit http://www.winchendon.mec.edu/. To leave a voice message for Brooke Clenchy, Superintendent of Schools, please call 978-297-0031.
It's a shame that a 10-year-old had to be victimized like that, but we are after all talking about Massachusetts. When these lunatics say "zero-tolerance" they MEAN it, and for heavens sake how come his mother hasn't been paying attention. This isn't some grown-up who can fight such a raw deal, someone we can get behind and help with advice and support, this is a little kid. You can email the school all you want but it isn't going to make a lick of difference because the people who live in Massachusetts have to take back their rights from the bottom up, and the reason they do not is the simple fact that most of them believe such zero-tolerance nonsense to be just swell.
Lunatic liberals don't get elected to public office, and schools don't get staffed with teachers who believe that a good hug-a-thon is all thats needed to save the world unless the voters WANT it that way. Mass, NJ, NYC, and much of California are populated by folks who despise the American way of life and unless a whole lot of real people move in to outnumber them there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
That's what makes this case of child abuse so hard to swallow. They think they're doing the right thing, they're in charge, and they've found enough traitors to defend them in the name of law & order.
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