A Pennsylvania elementary school called the police after a kindergartner with Down syndrome made a finger gun at her teacher. Officials concluded there wasn't a threat, but the girl's mother said they went too far.
Maggie Gaines called on the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District to update its threat assessment policy after her 6-year-old daughter Margot was questioned by administrators for making a gun gesture at her elementary school teacher and pretended to shoot her. Gaines said it was a harmless expression of anger. But Margot's school in southeast Pennsylvania determined her actions appeared threatening, so they conducted a threat assessment. A family photo of Margot Gaines and her mother, Maggie .
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Overreact much?! We must protect ourselves from the 5yr old with fingers she knows how to shape into a gun!!!
i do finger guns all the time its a way of showing affection
This is absolutely moronic
What the heck...
She'd been better off just carrying.
Fcked up world we live in now. Hope the school heads are being fired and replaced immediately
Dont blame the teachers blame the administration who ignored school shootings as an epidemic.
Absolutely ridiculous a child with Down syndrome a small child should have been handled with a social worker and parents not the police or a health care worker
Fired the teach NOW! Poor child.
A country literally built on gun culture and this is a threat?
Looks like the kid is smarter than the teachers
Teacher is delusional. She shouldn’t be teaching.
Wow they went wat too far. Where is the common sense
I'm a rules kind of bot; Left Right, up down, port starboard, black white, alive and not. Some fool created 'middle' and didn't explain how it works.
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People really have lost their damn minds. Is there not one speck of common sense anymore? Whom ever called the cops should be too embarrassed to show their face in public for at least a decade. Good grief.
We live in a world of idiocy. I wonder who made it like that, snowflakes?
Wow!
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The teacher should loose his job. If the teacher was concerned about the child’s well being that’s one thing but w/o any signs of abuse the police cannot do shit. This teacher sounds like a hack
Stupid
This is what happens when the Left are in charge. It will get even worse if the Dems win the election.
CNN, this story has your fingerprints all over it. You have a child with Down syndrome being harassed by a teacher who feels victimized by a freakin hand gesture. Take a bow clowns
Ridiculous!!
That teacher, must be ashamed!
Room full of concealed finger guns and they single this one out .
Waiting for the day someone calls the police on a baby that shows a middle finger
Everyone quick run to your safe spaces. Code Red. 🤣
America, where finger guns are more regulated than real ones.
Just stupid🤔......
Rediculous, unnecessary, and totally wrong!
We have masked men armed with automatic rifles given police escorts to parade and assemble at government offices at the same time that we treat small disabled children as threats needing assessments by LE for pointing “finger guns.” This is all so very twisted.
Kid in my wife's 4th grade class smeared shit out of her pants onto others kids desks....principal refuse to address it or send janitor to clean it up. priorities
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personalpointofprivelage please do not use triggering language! That is a class 2 look a like firearm! Not a GUN! KeithMalinak PatUnleashed
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I wonder why the girl did it in the first place, maybe the teacher should be investigated....
Twilight zone
I’m so tired of schools using zero tolerance as an excuse not to take any accountability for their actions, it says a lot when they refuse to use common sense
If something happened people would be blaming the school for not reporting it...I rather the school be safe then sorry
Stupid school.
I'm looking at that finger and I think it's loaded!!!
I expect the schools reaction was less about a Down’s Syndrome preschooler making a finger gun and more about people thinking Down‘s kids should not be in the school
Wow are you kidding me! Americans!
Jesus Christ, she clearly had a deadly weapon! Ban guns, this is unacceptable!
She don’t need to be a teacher.
CNN immediately calls for all fingers to be banned !
Irrational fear rules our country. Thank you political leaders!
OMG what an idiot to call the police on this child. Good news we are now aware of another idiot.
This is something your readers would do
Probably
Insanity!!!! '
Was this an experienced teacher who should have had the ability to discern what is truly serious? Perhaps, the school district has gone too far in indoctrinating their teachers. Common sense, people!
That is the stupidest thing I I ever read about today!
What is the world coming to? How else can that baby girl express her coolness?
Another example of liberalism run amuck. Completely inane. Here’s a tip, get you kids out of public schools now!
Way too far. Some of these teachers are unfit and should choose another profession.
Teacher sounds like a nut! Really!!!
The teacher/ admin are not quoted as having said she was even upset, so exactly what happened for her to do that? It could have simply been a playful gesture. Did she say “bang your dead” or “pow pow” that’s hardly a threat!
Why would you call the police and not the parents first on a kindergartner? Give me a break use your brain
Perhaps this teacher needs some more education in the area of child development. It’s normal for kids to imitate. My 6 year old watches Transformers cartoons and sometimes makes a finger gun but when I see her do this I educate her about guns and how cartoons are not reality! 🇨🇦
You can tell by the comments who is liberal and who is conservative. smh.
No wonder Trump connects with 40% of Americans. This is sooo stupid.
No common sense left in the world.
Zero tolerance always means zero intelligence.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. I had to have a talk with my youngest about finger guns because apparently elementary kids make terroristic threats. 🙄
In the school defense the finger gun was loaded. 😜
I thought people wanted guns in school?
LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
That’s why I’m voting Republican
The school needs this 🤔.
It’s about time they start showing whites how to act.
Imagine what those police officers could have been doing to actually protect their community rather than respond to a call like this
Let’s face it, with what teachers get paid, they aren’t exactly attracting our best and brightest into the profession. But, how can the teacher be that dumb?
this whole world has gone nuts!!!!!!!!!!!
Government schools and the teachers union are right up there with the fake news media as enemies of the people.
What kind of stupid people are there in this world !!
They surely did, the ignorance of the school system as well as law enforcement is just obvious. ABC CBSNews MSNBC NBCNews SenateGOP SenateDems
If the only teacher had Tomahawk missile to defend herself from the finger gun of a toddler.
This is almost as bad as the kid that got arrested for eating a pop-tart into the shape of a gun.
'The School' isn't a person. 'The school' didn't make a phone call. 'The school' is protecting an idiot who shouldn't work anywhere near children
PC Principal
Finger guns are the gateway to the real ones....
If only there was a good little girl with a finger gun, who could of protected the teacher.
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