The kid is suspended for throwing a pretend grenade from a school that (likely) pretends to teach...kinda makes sense to me.

Or pretends to have adult supervision?

Good, he's learned a valuable life lesson: even when you're doing a good deed, someone will come along and say it isn't.

Once again, kid and parents learn a lesson... but not the one the school meant to teach.

For most of us, our first contact with the most asinine of bittibrained bureaurats is in the public schools.

Agree with Bar Sinister. Still vividly remember being forced to scrub off something bad that had been written on the school wall while in kindergarten (and that's been 56+ years ago). To add to the punishment the Sisters called the entire class out and had them stand around and watch while I cleaned off the wall. Too bad I still don't know what I was scrubbing off since I COULDN'T READ OR WRITE AT THAT POINT. At least they didn't kick me out...but I bet its still on my "permanent record" somewhere.

This is just beyond the pale. I am SO glad I don't have small kids in school anymore. I feel so bad for the folks who do. Common sense has gone by the wayside, and it looks as though there won't be a return any time soon.

Should I be worried, I have been threatened with Ninja superpowers and finger pistols.

Are my students planning to kill me. I feel threatened know. Maybe I should have them suspended.

Lord knows how many years my GI Joe doll would have gotten me when I was 7.

That little guy threw grenades all over the place.

This is yet another reminder that if I lived my childhood today rather than a few decades ago, I and all of my friends would have ended up in juvie and our parents would all have been imprisoned for child endangerment.

"Should I be worried, I have been threatened with Ninja superpowers and finger pistols."

As long as they don't get after you with cat lasers, no worries.

I just watched a Scorsese documentary on Picasso,Braque and early film. One of the images that stuck with me was of a school notebook of Picasso when he was about 6.
Sure enough, it had a lot of drawings in the margins, one of which was a rifle. In this day and age, he'd have been suspended and possibly convinced to give up art altogether.

It sure isn't getting any more sane. Just today, Instapundit linked to this Washington Examiner story describing how Alexandria, Virginia police arrested a little boy for bringing a toy gun to school. The Alexandria city schools superintendent purred the usual nonsense about concern for student safety, to which the Instapundit replies, "Your students were always safe, because it was a toy gun." [emphasis in original] Don't bother with the Examiner comments, by the way -- they Godwinated at truly depressing speed.

However, while I don't want to start preaching, there's one thing I noticed here and in other venues where we read stories like these: We're all really good at expressing outrage, really good at trading snark about muddleheaded bureaucrats. But what are we actually supposed to do about all this? Not other people. Us.

Unfortunately, RPM, there is very little we can do about it. Most people cannot afford private school and letters to local politicians do very little in the way of effecting change. I'd love to remain optimistic that protesting and expressing outrage to the government would create enough stir to force them to re-examine their policies, but we all know that the reality is that it won't.
So, we bitch and moan here since, for now, we still have the 1st Amendment right to do so. It may not change anything, but it certainly is carthartic. And, who knows? If enough people on here are of the same mindset, it could spark a movement. Or not. I don't know. But at least I still have the right to dream... for the time being, anyway.