Primary school calls police over a nine-year-old sword fighting

 
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Police were called to a primary school to speak to a nine-year-old boy after he was caught playing sword-fighting games with a ruler.

The mother of Kyron Bradley, who attends St George’s Bickley CE Primary School, in Bromley, south east London, was called in to speak to the head teacher following complaints that the boy had been playing with a half-ruler in a mock sword-fighting game with two other boys.

Natasha Bradley, 27, told News Shopper that after speaking to the head she had “explained to my son it was a stupid game to play as he could have fallen with the ruler,” adding that “he cried but he understood”.

But two days after her visit to the school, on April 29, Bradley discovered the police had been called in by the school and asked to speak with her son.

Bradley, who described herself as a strict parent, said she was so disgusted with the way her son had been dealt with she “burst out crying”.

“I had already dealt with him myself. Why the police were involved I haven’t a clue?” she told the paper, adding that Kyron had never been in trouble for more than being “chatty” and that she had made a formal complaint over the incident.

The school’s headteacher Geraldine Shalckleton said in response: “I am expected to use my judgement and act appropriately to ensure children and staff in my school are safe.”

She said that schools work closely with local police as a matter of routine to gain help and guidance in these matters.

“Sometimes having a gentle conversation with children, with parents or guardians present, can help young people fully understand possible consequences of actions they have taken or have indicated they may take in the future,” she said.

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wow. The amount of times my friends and I would have had the cops called on us would have been in the hundreds.


 
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I've come to accept that schools basically have to make retarded decisions like this because if they don't some idiot soccer mom is going to try and sue the school board or something.
Why are Gen. X mothers so incompetent...


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She named her kid Kyron and didn't expect him to turn out to be a sword-fighting miscreant?


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But for real, did anyone else think penises would be involved when they read "police" and "sword fighting" in the title?


 
 
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If 10 years ago people hadn't scoffed at the idea of a 'license to breed' then this wouldn't be a problem, schools wouldn't be catering to cotton-wool mongs that shat out a child but are ready to sue at the drop of a hat.

I thought my school was mean 10 odd years ago when they took away all of our toy weapons at breaktime on a history day >_> Most of the class turned up armed to the teeth with plastic swords and wooden spears ready to batter seven shades of shite out of each other at breaktime but nooooooooo apparently they saw this coming and stopped it. Tssk.


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If 10 years ago people hadn't scoffed at the idea of a 'license to breed' then this wouldn't be a problem, schools wouldn't be catering to cotton-wool mongs that shat out a child but are ready to sue at the drop of a hat.

I thought my school was mean 10 odd years ago when they took away all of our toy weapons at breaktime on a history day >_> Most of the class turned up armed to the teeth with plastic swords and wooden spears ready to batter seven shades of shite out of each other at breaktime but nooooooooo apparently they saw this coming and stopped it. Tssk.
We weren't even allowed to throw snowballs at my primary school


 
 
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If 10 years ago people hadn't scoffed at the idea of a 'license to breed' then this wouldn't be a problem, schools wouldn't be catering to cotton-wool mongs that shat out a child but are ready to sue at the drop of a hat.

I thought my school was mean 10 odd years ago when they took away all of our toy weapons at breaktime on a history day >_> Most of the class turned up armed to the teeth with plastic swords and wooden spears ready to batter seven shades of shite out of each other at breaktime but nooooooooo apparently they saw this coming and stopped it. Tssk.
We weren't even allowed to throw snowballs at my primary school
Ouch, they only banned snowball fights at mine after people made ice-bricks and cracked one of the more unpopular teachers right in the gob with it <_<


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But for real, did anyone else think penises would be involved when they read "police" and "sword fighting" in the title?
Yes.


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And yet at my little siblings school I have to be the one to call the cops when I hear a kid is threatening other elementary school kids and sexually harassing them.

My fucking school district tried to push that under the rug.


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When I was in first grade, on Halloween, me and my friend both had plastic swords and got into a sword fight. We both got our names put on the board without even a warning. To this day, I think that was a bullshit call.

This is just some next-level shit.


 
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It's funny how thinking about this does actually make you want to be violent? So it kinda kills the purpose of punishing someone for playing a game with a backdrop of violence? Maybe, the truth is that pedagogy is messing up the current generations so much, that the society we are developing will be so thirsty for violence that will lead for so many people to seek violence through the media, and so the media will always give more and more violence and sex.

Oh wait. It's happening.

When I was in first grade, on Halloween, me and my friend both had plastic swords and got into a sword fight. We both got our names put on the board without even a warning. To this day, I think that was a bullshit call.

This is just some next-level shit.


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I once got a warning for smashing a kid's arm with a rock. To this day I feel I should have at least gotten sent to the principal or something, but no, just a warning.

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I remember the 90's.  My friend and I would play out violent Star Wars scenes,  pretend to shoot at each other with guns, and just be a over imaginative kids. The parents and teachers would just watch us with a smile.

Nowadays you're prone to be a psychopathic murderer if you even think of playing cowboys and Indians.


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I mean that's just butt-fuck retarded. And for a place that already has bigger problems like I dunno, actual gangs of chavs and the like this is OTT on a scale I rarely see (unless you count America - occasionally some kid gets suspended for some similar retarded reason).

I mean, my school banned conkers and cut down a tree to stop them existing in the school for "health and safety" reasons, but it's not like they called in the army after we brought our own in...


 
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