In this guns-are-bad society we teach our children that everyone who handles a gun is bad. Really? Are soldiers bad? Are heroes bad? Are children playing ‘rescue the world’ bad? Apparently so.
Seven year old, Alex Evans played ‘rescue the world’ and tossed an imaginary grenade into a make-believe box to defeat the forces of all evil and was suspended from school. Mary Blair Elementary School’s policy does not allow for weapons or fighting whether real nor imagined.
In an attempt to make schools safe, children’s thoughts are sanitized. Self-exploration and expression are stifled in these early formative years. Are we doing more harm than good? What happens when you tell an entire generation of children: ‘Don’t save the world - Don’t stand up.’
Keep blowing it up, kid. Let your imagination go wild. You are awesome, man. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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