Where did the common sense go?  It looks like the lack of  upbringing and the school system for the last 20 years is beginning to show.

Whatever happened to punishing by using common sense.  Example, one of the infractions for our young man is that he called someone black that was black.  If the child was black what is the big deal?  Why didn’t the teacher explain to the two children that we have different colors of people and that is the way God made them.  Oh, I forgot,  she can’t say God in the classroom.  As far as the “Book of Knowledge” that he brought to school, why didn’t she/he just tell the student that it was an inappropriate book for the class room and give it to the child at the end of the day and send a  note with the child to the parents stating that.

In addition, it is time this school should be reviewed by the school board because it seems this school seems to have a problem which I call lacking common sense.

The ring little Aiden brought to school may not have been the true ring of power, but it had enough controversy to get him suspended from a Kermit, Texas, school.

This is the third and strangest suspension for Aiden Steward.

Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom.  God, give me a break!

“It sounded unbelievable,” the boy’s father, Jason Steward, told the Daily News. He insists his son “didn’t mean anything by it.”

“Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly,” Steward said.

Aiden and his family had just seen ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,’ which led to his playful declaration that he too had magical powers.

Aiden claimed Thursday he could put a ring on his friend’s head and make him invisible like Bilbo Baggins, who stole Gollum’s “precious” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series “The Lord of the Rings.”

“I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend’s existence,” the boy’s father later wrote in an email. “If he did, I’m sure he’d bring him right back.”

Principal Roxanne Greer declined to comment on the fourth-grader’s suspension, citing confidentiality policies, according to the Odessa American, who first reported Aiden’s troubles Friday.

The family moved to the Kermit Independent School District only six months ago, but it’s been nothing but headaches for Aiden. He’s already been suspended three times this school year.

Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: “The Big Book of Knowledge.”

“He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,” Steward said.

But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.  (Strange, isn’t it, when we see pregnant women on television in advertisements on most days.)

Seems to me that it’s also the generation currently employed as school teachers and administrators we’re having trouble with… too many of them went through an equally horrible educational system, hence their utter lack of critical reasoning skills. (A few public schools are still good..)

Some of the school suspensions throughout the United States which are simply a lack of common sense are:  A 7 year old (yo)  in Md poptart gunshape, 5yo Hello Kitty bubblesgun at busstop, two boys playing cowboy and indians on playground, a paper gun thrown away, a 5 yo with a mohawk haircut, 6 year old in Co kissed a girl on hand, a 9 yo My Little Pony backpack abt bullying, 10 yo in Oh for pointing finger up in the air saying boom, 11yo in Miami haircut shaved with team logo, a 3rd grader shaved her head in support of friend, said she violated school dress code.

A 13-year-old was handcuffed, arrested and brought to facility for burping loudly in class. Middle schooler suspended for hugging his fem friend, school has a no hugging policy, NY 4 hs boys knelt down like Tebow betw classes, 40 students joined and were suspended for causing a hallway jam, 9 yo in NC said his teacher was cute, substitute heard it reported it for sexual harrassment, 5th grader brought nasal spray and suspended, Ten honor roll seniors in New Orleans who were suspended for singing “We Lift Our Hands in the Sanctuary.” in the cafeteria during lunchtime. This is just some, there’s many more, guess this is common core.

Common Core might be a good thing; but, is it limiting our children and shutting down the creativity and thought process.  Following are some thoughts from others:  I am a private tutor and this Common Core is RUINING the imagination of our children. Also there are too many regulations imposed on our teachers by people that know GOTZ about how to educate children. Teaching was awesome before the implementation of Common Core, teachers were allowed to imagine, children were allowed to imagine, they were allowed to use their brains!!! Now they have to prove how they got to the answer, they need evidence to support their answer!

They are not on trial, they are learning how to add two plus two! I had a philosophy teacher say to me that I should drop his class, because my answer did not have “documented” evidence on my response to a test on Plato’s teachings. How can you have “documented” evidence when you are not taught anything to begin with. That professor just lectured on how Plato did this and Plato did that,open your books and read pages 1-42 in class and now read pages 43-74 for Wednesday and interpret what you read. Okay… first of all he taught us NOTHING so how are we going to interpret 73 pages of words based on the NOTHING that we learned in class that day?? That is a tell tale sign of an ineffective teacher. If we just simply got rid of ineffective teachers we would not need Common Core, and this crap that is placed on teachers will no longer insist.

Teaching children is a learning process for the teachers and the children, not a brain-washing technique!  Some times even adults can learn from children just by observing.

Remember the saying – out of the mouths of babes?

Young and inexperienced persons often can be remarkably wise.  In Psalms 8:2, God ordains strength out of the mouth of babes and sucklings.  In Matthew 21:16, praise comes from this source.  Later generations changed strength and praise to wisdom.

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