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Finger guns
I know, totally not pole related but……
Just wondering why having a pretend, invisible, or finger gun a big no no in schools and it gets you suspended. Do they think that if you play cops and robbers that you will end up a murderer? Because we would have a way higher crime rate. Didn’t we all used finger/pretend guns in school one time. But then on the other hand it’s perfectly fine to kill someone with your invisible bow and arrow or behead someone with your pretend light saber. -
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I don’t think suspension is appropriate for that. that’s pretty extreme. if kids are just playing , they don’t really mean anything by it. they don’t understand what it means. I think it is just taboo for the adults around them because of the horrors of school shootings that we see in the news. maybe just telling the kid, hey we consider this to be rude and not appropriate, don’t do this gesture would be sufficient. teach them to not do it if that’s against school rules. I would consider it to be about as inappropriate as , say, running indoors, talking during class. which are things we don’t usually suspend a child from school for. I don’t think it’s nice manners to pretend to kill anyone, but I don’t think children really think of it that way. just the way a young child may say a bad word and not know what it means. its our job to gently teach them not to say it.
we don’t have to freak out about it and take extreme measures . a little common sense goes a long way -
I think it depends on the age of the child and the manner in which it was used.
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I agree with PoleFitMom. I teach pre-k and of course they want to “play guns”. I dont encourage this but they dont get put in time out over it either. I try to facilitate shooting webs or some other way for them to play good guys and bad guys in that manner. Redirecting them to play their game without using “guns” fosters creative play as they come up with different ways to play.
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