From Mrs. C via email…
HAYWARD — An elementary school will hold a toy gun exchange Saturday, offering students a book and a chance to win a bicycle if they turn in their play weapons.
Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill maintains that children who play with toy guns may not take real guns seriously.
“Playing with toys guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them, so as they get older, it’s easier for them to use a real gun,” Hill said.
At Saturday’s event, called Strobridge Elementary Safety Day, a Hayward police officer will demonstrate bicycle and gun safety, and the Alameda County Fire Department is sending a rig and crew to talk about fire safety.
Fingerprinting and photographing of children will be offered, with the information put on CDs for parents to use, if needed, in a missing child case. All youngsters attending will be given a ticket to exchange for a book, Hill said.
Every child who brings a toy gun will get a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles, Hill said.
Read the whole thing HERE.
Now I have to say I agree with her comment, “What kid in their right mind would trade a toy gun for a book?”
None that “I” know of…
But you have to remember this is a suburb of San Francisco, so ‘that’ does play into this whole stupidity…
In other news, females of ALL ages will now have access to the morning after pill…
The Obama administration announced Monday it will end age restrictions on emergency contraception, allowing girls and women of all ages to purchase the morning-after pill without a prescription.
The Department of Justice notified U.S. District Judge Edward Korman it will submit a plan for compliance with his recent ruling that allowed unrestricted sales of Plan B One-Step. If he approves it, the department will drop its appeal of his April ruling.
According to the department’s letter to the judge, the Food and Drug Administration has told the maker of the pills to submit a new drug application with proposed labeling that would permit it to be sold “without a prescription and without age or point-of-sale prescriptions.”
Read it HERE.
So, Sudafed needs a life history and a two hour pile of BS forms, IDs, etc… But the morning after pill will now be on the aisle next to the aspirin???
And parents have NO say in whether or not Snowflake buys it, no matter HOW old she is???
Sounds like one more nail in the coffin of the family…
Sigh…
I received my first .22 rifle when I was quite young and lived in Arizona. Back then when the family went shooting, I had a rifle of my own to shoot under close supervision. I wonder what the Liberal Establishment would have said. Of course, THEN, there were other boys like me who had rifles and shot them. I don’t think that any of those boys turned out to be mass murderers — dodged that ‘progressive’ bullet.
Consider…..
A student bringing a toy gun to school for any OTHER purpose than this idiocy would be suspended, if not arrested.
Way to go Principal Idjit…. teaching kids that your worthless rules have no basis in reality, and vanish at your whim.
And hormonal boys rejoice! Not to mention predators.
LL- Same here, at age 8… sigh
Art- True!
PH- Yep… I’m convinced the education system is out to destroy American Families as ‘we’ know them…
The U.S. has pretty much succeeded with black families, and whites are not far behind.
I’ve been a Pharmacist for close to 20 years now and I must say in my professional opinion that this is a truly stupid idea. When the FDA said it was okay to dispense this to adults without a prescription I had some reservations but at least we could talk to the patient and least hope we could be understood. This drug contains high doses of hormones and can have some very unpleasant side effects. I personally cannot recommend giving this to a child who is not under the supervision of a Physician. But I only do this for a living it’s not like I’m a DOJ lawyer, a politician, or some other Progressive type “expert”.
PoppaJ- Good point, and ‘that seems to have been glossed over/missed/ignored by the administration and other ‘experts’… so when kids start dying, then what???
It’ll be covered up, just like it is when they die from abortions.
PH- You’re right on both counts… dammit…
On item 1, sounds like a chance to teach the kids about haggling for cash before they enter the drop off area.
On item 2, are the pills marked “soma?”
Well hell. Maybe one of the pharmaceutical companies can come up with a new & improved roofie with the after-pill included. No we’re not headed for hell, we’re already there.
A wise man once said, “Super Soakers don’t soak people, people soak people.”
Can’t remember if I had toy guns, but I probably did. I had, or had access to, real firearms from around five years of age. Unsupervised use from about age eight. I also had knives and access to saws, shovels, chisels, screwdrivers, axes, hatchets, picks and other “implements of destruction”. Guess I’m lucky to have survived childhood. What do kids today have access too? Game controllers, smart phones, computers.
I have owned or been around real guns most of my life.i also paled with toy guns.I have not killed or tried to kill anyone.I will admit to killing a few beers over the years.