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Vent: my kid's school banned the word "gun" in every essay, even the one about a water gun fight
Two years ago my son wrote a history paper on the Revolutionary War and used the word musket, no problem. Last month he got sent to the office for writing "guns" in a story about a summer water fight at his cousin's house in Akron. The principal said the rule was added in January after a district meeting, and now every essay gets scanned before a teacher even reads it. So a kid can write about bows and arrows or cannons, but a plastic squirt gun is a threat. Is this ban actually keeping anyone safer, or is it just making kids afraid to write anything real?
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joseph_sanchez6d ago
Man, come on, a word ban is a word ban and someone has to draw the line somewhere. Think about how fast a story about a water fight turns into a story about a real fight when the teacher isn't looking, and the district can't exactly read every draft by hand with 30 kids per class, so the scan does the first pass for them. Yeah the musket paper got through fine, but that was two years ago and rules change after stuff happens, maybe a threat somewhere in the district nobody told you about. A little kid losing the word gun in an essay is a small price if it stops one real one from slipping by.
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