Brickbat: Let Go of My Lego
Sheila Cruz says officials at Hyannis West Elementary School in Massachusetts reprimanded and threatened to suspend her 5-year-old son Joseph after he made a gun out of Legos. Barnstable Public Schools Superintendent Mary Czajkowski said the boy made other students uncomfortable. "The teacher and school principal acted in accordance with school and district policy," she said.
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Barnstable Public Schools Superintendent Mary Czajkowski said the boy made other students uncomfortable.
So, if my kid’s black shirt makes other kids feel ‘uncomfortable’, he gets suspended? Seriously? They’re teaching kids they have a right to not feel uncomfortable even if their discomfort is completely irrational. This is how liberals are made.
Only gun-related discomfort is respected.
If the kid was pretending to be Jesus engaging in anal sex while performing a partial birth abortion, anyone who felt uncomfortable would be guilty of intolerance and expelled.
Which is also the reason a certain President’s entire class can’t remember him attending Columbia.
Hey PS. You got a cite for that claim? I haven’t heard that, but am interested to read about it.
Don’t you subscribe to my newsletter?
From Snopes:
Most expressions of this rumor feed off the statement (referenced in a Wall Street Journal editorial) that “Fox News contacted some 400 of [Obama’s] classmates and found no one who remembered him” and a statement made by Wayne Allyn Root (the Libertarian Party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee who also attended Columbia at the same time as Barack Obama) that “I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia.”
As literally true as these statements might be,
http://www.snopes.com/politics…..CFWLrsH.99
My level of comfort would depend on whether He is having anal sex with the person He is performing the abortion on and whether or not there was popcorn.
You saw Udo Kier in Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, didn’t you?
You twisted fuck…
…of course I have.
But I don’t remember any abortion scene… sex with the monster’s open wounds maybe but no abortion.
The only person responsible for how you feel is you. If you feel offended, it’s your fault. If you feel uncomfortable, it’s your fault. No one else is responsible for something that only you can control.
I read someplace that in many Asian cultures allowing one’s self to become upset is a sign of weakness.
Unlike in this culture where there is always someone or something to blame.
A dangerous blockhead is loose in the schools of Barnstable.
That’s the stupidest looking Lego gun I ever saw.
if only he had read Badass Lego Guns
It shoots Eggo waffles into people’s mouths. Ready to change your tune?
Does it follow up with a pearl necklace of syrup? Pervert.
When I was 10, a family friend with some woodworking equipment made some cutout guns for me, my brother and my cousin. I, in a fit of brilliance, took a dowel that was about the diameter of a pencil, sharpened it with as pencil sharpener, and taped it to the underside of the square muzzle – voila! – bayonet, bithcez!
Then my mom took it away from me.
Fuckwitted Public Schools Superintendents make me uncomfortable.
My first thought was that incidents like this are precisely the problem with a government-sector education monopoly.
Remember those “Army Gear” toys from the 80’s that were made to look like guns and canteens and such on the outside but opened up into miniature fortresses inside? Sort of like Polly Pocket for boys. I suppose that’d be verboten now.
Those were awesome.
Sometimes man, you just gotta roll with it.
http://www.AnoTimes.tk
Fuck that, waaminn. You have to fight the power.
“Barnstable Public Schools Superintendent Mary Czajkowski said the boy made other students uncomfortable.”
Bald. Faced. Lie.
No shit. The other boys were probably agog over the coolness of the whole thing and couldn’t wait to get home to make there own. The girls looked at, decried it a stupid boy thing, and went back to competitive accessorizing.
The only people uncomfortable were the fuckwad administrators.
Yanno, whenever I buy toys for charity, like Toys for Tots, I always buy Legos, since it’s a gender neutral toy. I sure hope some girl as well as boy was inspired to get into engineering or architecture because of those Lego sets I bought them. I, for one, LOVED the Expert Builder sets.
FOR THE LOVE OF SOD IT’S LEGOS, YOU IMBECILES!
Imagine if some poor kid happened to tote around the original “Megatron” Transformers toy*…
*It’s a Walther P-38 that transforms into a robot. It even had a stock, scope, AND shroud!
An assault Transformer! Run for your life!
To be fair, sarc, the pistol iself could be mistaken as real if in dim light or quickly brandished.
+t
A parent will never step on it barefoot in the night, because have you ever stepped on a Lego barefoot?
Yes, Lil’ Groovus met the Wrath of Primus Maximus on a few occasions if an errant Lego was discovered that way.-)))
That’s the only way to find lost Legos. Eyes and hands just don’t work. Bare feet are like Lego magnets.
First of all… the original Megatron… had it loved it and appreciate the happy flashback, thanks….
As for Legos being a gender neutral toy, I agree, my daughters love them. But Lego apparently disagrees since it recently introduced a line of legos specifically marketed toward girls.
Not sure that this is inspiring too many future engineers or architects…
Why? There is nothing that says female engineers or architects can’t like the color pink and wear makeup.
The lego friends line is mostly a construction set for doll houses… there’s a grocery store, cafe, clothing store, and some cutesy animal play sets.
My wife is a city planner with a degree in architecture and refuses to buy these for my daughter… of course she also hates the Star Wars line legos for the similar reasons.
The line of Legos geared towards girls is just a marketing gimmick to get people who have a boys and girls to buy more Legos.
If it leads to more sales, more power to them… but real parents were buying real legos for their girls already and didn’t need another toy reinforcing a shallow image of shopping and fashion.
I have a Walter P-38 (actually a postwar P-1 with an aluminum frame, but otherwise the same). Love it. Such a great little gun.
My wife carries a Walther P22… small gun but looks cool as hell.
*It’s a Walther P-38 that transforms into a robot. It even had a stock, scope, AND shroud!
Part of me wonders if maybe that’s why they changed him in the movies to an admittedly kind of cool looking airplane/ spaceship of some kind. Mattel wasn’t willing to authorise them making him a gun because of the “OMG, it’s fake gun!” bullshit.
Liberty-loving parents should shun the public school system altogether. They are brainwashing your children into loving Big Brother and the Nanny State. Gun control, the Patriot Act, NDAA, political correctness, ‘Governement is God’ are all being force-fed into the minds of children as something positive.
I’m glad I don’t live in your world.
Maybe they accused Czajkowski of fucking sheep or something.
Everyone just needs to shut the fuck up. Policies and procedures were followed. Policies and procedures, I say!
I know, it sounds like that woman went to the dunphy school of authoritayspeek.
Kaptious One! You’re back! And in a new colour! I miss the violet.-(
Czakjowski said she is disappointed Joseph’s parents did not reach out to her to discuss their concerns about the reprimand before going to the media, adding that she has yet to hear from or contact Joseph’s parents, Sheila Cruz and Octavio Cardosa.
The family’s attorney, George MacKoul, said Cruz spoke to Hyannis West Principal Kathi Amato about the incident and was told the superintendent would investigate.
Nothing came of it, however, and Cruz was told the school wouldn’t change its position on the reprimand, MacKoul said.
It sounds like they didn’t reach out to the superintendent because they reasonably assumed that they’d be wasting their time and that she’d only tell them to suck it up, the way she did eventually.