What do you think? Overreaching political correctness or effective anti-threatening measures. I wonder what they would have said about me, when I was making swords and nunchaku as a kid. Read the original here.
Boys, 7, Told Army Game ‘Threatens’
The lads were spotted making gun shapes with their hands.
Staff also told the pupils' parents to reprimand them. The dad of one of the boys said: "This is ridiculous. How can you tell a seven-year-old boy he can't play guns and armies with his friends.
"We were told to tell our son he cannot play 'guns' anymore.
"The teacher said the boys should be reprimanded for threatening behaviour, which would not be tolerated at the school." The boys attend Nathaniel Newton Infants in Nuneaton, Warwicks.
Local Tory MP Marcus Jones said: "It is quite apparent the boys would be playing an innocent game.
"This is political correctness gone mad. When I was that age that type of game was commonplace and I don't remember anyone coming to any harm from it." The school defended its actions. It said the boys indulged in "unacceptable behaviour" by making gun gestures to members of staff.
A spokesman said: "Far from stopping children from playing we actively encourage it.
"However a judgment call has to be made if playing turns into unacceptable behaviour."
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^ j.coles@the-sun.co.uk (www.thesun.co.uk)
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3609208/Boys-7-told-army-game-threatens.html#ixzz1O92HxUSt
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