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NY School Expels Boy for Rolling up a Piece of Paper and Pretending it was a Gun

Asher Palmer and mother, Melina Spadone, with paper shotgun

Communist Education Strikes Again

Manhattan, New York – 8-year-old Asher Palmer has been expelled from school in what can only be described as yet another act of pure idiocy by our paranoia-stricken school system. Asher was expelled from The Lang School after rolling up a white piece of paper and pretending it was a gun.

According to The New York Post, the teachers simply told him to stop playing with the piece of paper rather than confiscating it. When he proceeded to point it at some of his fellow students, the principle, Michaela Bracamonte, decided the child was too much of a threat to continue his attendance with the school.

Asher was diagnosed with ADHD as well as communication/speech problems, which is why he was attending the Lang school in the first place as it is a learning facility designed to cater to students with special needs.

Principal Bracamonte even went as far as to say that Asher “had a model for physically aggressive behavior in his immediate family.”

This statement particularly outraged the boy’s mother, Melina Spadone, because she believes the woman was speaking about her husband, Mark Palmer, who served during the First Gulf War in Kuwait. If that was in fact the reason for the comment, Spadone says she found it “offensive and inappropriate”.

Spadone, Asher’s mother, is on record as saying that “Asher is exactly the type of student Lang is supposed to be serving. Why they did this doesn’t make any sense.” Asher’s mother and father are in the process of finalizing their divorce.

Family Reacts to School’s Absurd Decision

If you can believe it, the story gets even more outrageous. On an entirely separate incident, Asher allegedly threatened to “kill” one of the young girls in his class. The Post called it “a typical argument between youngsters”, but Principal Bracamonte decided that he had a “concrete plan for killing a fellow student.”

The family has invested about $120,000 into the school to ensure their son got the best education possible. Lang has a yearly tuition of $51,500 and an application fee of $125. The family has also invested a considerable amount of money on private, one-on-one tutoring. If that isn’t bad enough, Asher had only attended the school for about five months. Asher’s mother e-mailed the principal:

“I am stunned… we did not invest $120,000 toward Asher’s success for a five-month period. It was understood, and, in fact, contractually agreed, that Asher would be returning next year.”

The paper additionally reported the following:

“In her June 12 e-mail to the boy’s teachers and psychologist, obtained by The Post, Bracamonte said, “I don’t see it tenable at this stage that Asher receive a warning for the specific behavior we’ve agreed on targeting – i.e. use of pretend guns on fellow students and mention of killing.” She added that the boy “had a concrete plan for killing [a female student] that he would not retract after discussion with our psych staff … that was physically and verbally at a whole new level only last week … He might well present a risk to the emotional and possibly (though remotely so) physical safety and well-being of his classmates.”

Asher’s mother has also suggested that the decision may have been affected by irrational fears sparked by the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The parent of another student in Asher’s class is on record as saying that the two kids get along “just fine”, and added that “they take the subway together. They play games together. I don’t feel my son is threatened by him.”

Asher himself stated that he wants to go back to school because “I like being with my friends.” Principal Bracamonte has, of course, refused to publicly comment on the issue, but did recommend the child be home-schooled next year.

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