Last Wednesday was Halloween, but there's still something very scary out there. It doesn't wear a mask, it doesn't say "Boo!" and it's not hiding under your bed. Chances are, it's in your kid's school.
I'm talking about the Politically Correct Educator. You know the one... the person who
bans plastic swords or laser blasters from Halloween costumes. The one who says "the world has become too dangerous" for kids to dress up like a cowboy, or a pirate, or a soldier. The one who practices "zero tolerance," even when it really means "zero common sense."
Did these educators ever stop to think that maybe they're part of the reason the world has become such a "dangerous place?" By telling kids there's no difference between a toy gun and a real gun, or a toy sword and a real sword, you don't teach the kid not to play with those things. All you're doing is setting up unrealistic expectations of childhood behavior, while ignoring an opportunity to truly educate children about gun safety.
Over 20 million kids have now been through the Eddie Eagle program, and accidents involving kids and guns are at an all-time low. There are thousands of educators out there who understand that it's possible to have smart talk about gun safety without wanting our kids to live in bubbles. Politically correct educators, though, don't want to teach our kids common sense... they just want to teach them fear.
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