First-grader threatens to get a gun when asked to share swing set

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A first-grade student in Sanford, Maine, threatened to bring a gun to school after being asked by a teacher to let another student have a turn on a swing during recess, according to a letter the school sent to parents.

The principal of Margaret Chase Smith School, Chuck Potter, informed families of the situation in a letter dated Friday.
“I am writing to make you aware of an incident that occurred on the playground this week between two 1st grade students at recess,” Potter wrote. “We determined that a student was asked by a teacher to let another student have a turn on the swing, and the student who was on the swing responded by saying they were going to bring in a gun to school.”

The school investigated and determined there was no viable threat.

“Considering the age of the student, appropriate consequences were given,” Potter wrote, without describing the school’s specific response.

Full story at:
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/03/23/sanford-1st-grader-threatens-to-be-bring-gun-to-school/

[malaise]

1. The teacher wrote this?

"...and the student who was on the swing responded by saying they were going to bring in a gun to school.”

That said first graders are now threatening over entitlement - WTF!

[riversedge]

3. The principle wrote the letter to parents leading to many comments...........

Nothing about 'entitlement' in the article that I can see.


The principal of Margaret Chase Smith School, Chuck Potter, informed families of the situation in a letter dated Friday. The letter was posted to a local Facebook group, generating intense discussion in the community at a time of hypervigilance because of school shootings and security threats.

[Throck]

2. The National Recreation Association would be proud.

[mercuryblues]

4. More to the story

The school is sweeping it under the rug. The boy didn't just threaten to bring a gun. He threatened to kill the little girl with it.

“The way that the letter sounds, they are just kind of brushing it under the table,” Riley said. “Instead of getting off the swing, he looked at her and said ‘I’m going to bring a gun to school and kill you.'”

[FarCenter]

5. Kid has been watching too much news on TV