Thursday, August 29, 2013
School has become too hostile for boys
"As school
begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question:
Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the
answer is no. In May, Christopher Marshall, age 7,
was suspended from his Virginia school for picking up a pencil and using it to “shoot” a “bad
guy” — his friend, who was also suspended. A few months earlier, Josh Welch, also 7, was sent home from
his Maryland school for nibbling off the corners of a strawberry Pop-Tart to
shape it into a gun. At about the same time, Colorado’s Alex Evans, age 7,
was suspended for throwing an imaginary hand grenade at “bad guys” in
order to “save the world.”
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