6 year old given detention for bringing 2 inch action figure gun onto school bus

[stlcardinalsfan]

I understand what you are saying, but how is this a good idea? I think a better point could be made besides we use to make flamethrowers at school, so whats the big deal?

simply saying we didnt get in trouble over big stuff like that, but a kid gets suspended over legos......kinda dumb

[cowboysrgr8]

Church and better parenting.

well you cant do say church because you will offend someone
cant say better parenting because parents nowadays dont want to be parents they want to be friends with their kids...

[habsheaven]

Church and better parenting would have had NO EFFECT on this situation. It was a 6 year old with a toy. Another child chose a poor way to express himself. The good parenting begins after the incident, not before. To think otherwise is foolish.

[Wickabee]

well you cant do say church because you will offend someone

Only if you're saying you can't be a decent parent without church.

cant say better parenting because parents nowadays dont want to be parents they want to be friends with their kids...

Are you kidding me? That doesn't come up until 15-16. Kids' problems are starting way before that. Parents are screwing themselves very early on to a point where they're forced to be friends instead of parents or they're shut out completely. It isn't entirely their fault though.
First we have a system that keeps both parents out of the house for 8 hours +drive time, which can add up to a total of 10 hours a day. Your kid is at school for 6 of those, so that's 4 hours with at least 1, likely 2 parents nowhere to be seen.
Second, we have companies advertising at near brainwashing levels (heck, might actually be some brainwashing with all the research they do into how to make us buy stuff) telling these parents that only losers turn into parents carting their kids around. Winners go on vacation hang out at barbeques, go dancing, go to fancy restaurants despite their children. How do the winners deal with their kids? Funny, the ads never mention.

Parents are never around. Kids are left to their teachers...or would be if parents hadn't taken every ounce of authority, respect and dignity away from them. Day care? It's just school with zero structure. So who's raising these kids?

They're raising themselves. They're raising their friends. They're raising their brothers and sisters. They learn to not listen to what they don't like because, hey, you can always just go hang out with someone else.
So by the time they're 14-15-16 and they start communicating in a way you can somewhat decipher again, and you've got a little time because you went up the ladder, if you try to parent, they'll go find someone else to talk to. They're conditioned this way.

You're blaming the right people, but for the wrong reason. The "friend" bit is a symptom of a much earlier, much more serious problem. Of course, a solution would have to include more time at home for parents and that means slightly lower productivity and slightly lower (but still obscenely high) profits in ever sector. And for what? Youth?

Can't do that...