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School Shooter Alert: Margo Gaines, a 6-year-old with Downs Syndrome

Published February 7, 2020 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Bureaucrat’s Rule #1, Stupid Human Tricks


We’re still stuck in a paradigm tyrannized by what I call “Bureaucrat’s Rule Number One.”

The Rules Are More Important Than People

They have it backwards… completely backwards. People are far more important than the best rules or policy statements.

Is there a line where common sense finally kicks in?

I hope so, but we haven’t found it yet.

Today’s case in point?

A teacher at Valley Forge Elementary School sent Margo Gaines, a 6-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome, to the principal’s office after she got frustrated, then pointed her finger at her teacher and said, “I shoot you.”

If this is a 16-year-old then yes, calling the police is absolutely the right move. It’s the wrong move when the 6-year-old in question doesn’t even understand what she said.

While in the principal’s office the little girl was asked about what she did. Her response?

“‘Oh, I shoot mommy,’ [she] laughs, or, ‘I shoot my brother.’ The principal asked, ‘Did you mean to hurt your teacher?’ And she said no and it seemed like she didn’t even know what that meant,” said Maggie Gaines, Margo’s mother.

“She really didn’t understand what she was saying, and having Down syndrome is one aspect, but I’m sure all 6-year-olds don’t really know what that means. Now, there is a record at the police that says she made a threat to her teacher.”

State Pennsylvania State Senator Andrew Dinniman agrees there are problems with the policy.

“As a state senator, an educator, and a parent, I am concerned when I hear that such important decisions appear to be guided blindly by written policy or legal interpretation without those in positions of authority using their judgment, experience, and common sense to weigh in,” Finniman said.

It’s time for a new rule. Let’s call it Humanity Rule Number One.

People Are More Important Than Rules

 

Whether you agree or disagree, please let me know in the comments section below.

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Tags: 6-year-old with Downs Syndrome, common sense, Maggie Gaines, Margo Gaines, School Shooter, Senator Andrew Dinniman, threat assessment, Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, Valley Forge Elementary School

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Comments

  1. Robert says

    February 11, 2020 at 2:54 am

    Blatant idiocy is the new common sense.

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  2. Callie McHardy says

    February 15, 2020 at 10:07 am

    People don’t want to think. Easier to be told what to do and blindly follow stupidity.

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  3. Clive Edwards says

    February 15, 2020 at 1:45 pm

    I guess retarded children, especially girls, are the flavour of the year. She isn’t Swedish, is she? Also, I’d feel safer with her having a real gun than some of the Cops And Guards I shot with in Abbotsford. I’ll bet she wasn’t shouting, “Die, perp!” with her finger gun.

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