“Toy gun leads to Florida boy's expulsion” by Rich Phillips, CNN Senior Producer illustrates how in today’s society even the smallest mistake can have the biggest consequence. Last November in Broward County, Florida, 7-year-old, Samuel Burgos brought a gun to school. Instantly he was expelled. This seems pretty logical that he would not be allowed in a school setting for at least a year, but when the gun turned out to clearly be a toy the school bored took the same action as if it was a really gun. When asked about the toy gun Samuel said that he was playing "army" with his friends one weekend, and he decided to hide the toy gun from his brother, so he placed it in his school bag. He went to school on Monday and said that he forgot he had the toy with him.
This punishment is way too harsh. Samuel made an honest mistake and now he is going to have to pay for it the rest of his life. I agree with the schools policy of not having guns at school, but in this situation it just goes way too far. Just recently one of my teachers was telling our class about how when he was in school they had a rifle team, and kept guns at school. Now nothing like that would even be possible of happening. With all this strict laws and cracking down it makes me wonder if it’s just making kids rebel more and make them want to go against what they are suppose to do. This harsh punishment against Samuel makes me upset that in today’s society nothing can be forgiven, making an honest mistake results in such a heavy punishment. Is this a set up to try to make everything perfect? With human error occurring more often then not kids should not be severely punished for a simple mistake.
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