"A new use for plastic figures, cupcake toppings!" Topic

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I love the comment about "people use to play with toys like these…"

I believe that we should craft a metaphor here comparing cupcakes with "Society Today".

Why is it those who run public schools, where our children are supposed to be educated, seem to be so very, very stupid?

Certainly no one can be surprised by this.

I will not make a comment on the disrespect shown on the brave soldiers who fought wars so that teacher can express her opinions (which may or may not be correct)

I was concerned that childrens lockers in our local infant school in the UK had decorations that were "unsuitable" because they had images of modern weapons taken from 18 rated games?

Every birthday cake I had as a child had cowboys and Indians on top, What would society say about that now?

Ooh yes – chocolate fingers as timber on the side of the cowboy fort, and bargain bucket cowboys and indians – my wife and I made one of those for our son.

Mind you, we also made football pitch cakes, "moon" cakes 9with space marines etc. So I am all up for decorating cakes with soldiers. But then, I am on TMP…

Maddaz111 reminded me of something. I had pictures of vodka and whiskey in my locker when I was in 7th/8th Grade. When the Assistant Principal asked me why I had them posted in my locker I stated that my father owned a bar and was just advertising for him.

Nothing was said about them nor they removed until I cleaned the locker out at the end of the year.

"Why is it those who run public schools, where our children are supposed to be educated, seem to be so very, very stupid?".

They too are a product of the public school system, and PC has gone way overboard…….

For the record, my mom made me a nuclear aircraft carrier once, for my birthday, complete with gray frosting (not sure how she accomplished that), and blue and white frosting for the ocean. It looked spectacular, and was delicious.

Kids are not being educated, they are being brainwashed, to be afraid of weapons.

It's getting so bad at public schools that it seems like sending one's children to one could be seen as child abuse.
Of course, those in charge will never see it that way.

Higher education doesn't necessarily supplant stupidity.

One should be afraid of weapons!

seems unhygienic

I am at Cold Wars. Looking at the girth of our fellow wargamers, I think the cupcake/wargame figure marketing might be a stroke of genius!!

Look at us to see what could happen if you let kids play with toy soldiers.

This isn't a political issue, nor a culture issue, nor an issue of respect, nor an attempt to make schools safer. This isn't about weapons or war.

This is an issue of an overreaching principal needing to lose her job. Period. This is about a control freak who micromanages her students to such a degree that the ubiquitous little green soldier toy became a line that cannot be crossed.

As 14 bore says, this is about the program of 'brainwashing' the people of the USA into a state of hysterical anti-gun paranoia as has already happened in the UK where armed police have been called to fancy dress parties and innocent people shot for for carrying remotely gun shaped items (most famously a table leg). The cup cake incident is just of one of many similar incidents at schools in recent weeks – too many to be a coincidence.

One wonders if they attempt to teach history at all, and if they do, how will they edit all references and imagines of guns from the lessons….

They don't teach history.

brainwashing' the people of the USA into a state of hysterical anti-gun paranoia as has already happened in the UK where armed police have been called to fancy dress parties and innocent people shot for for carrying remotely gun shaped items (most famously a table leg)
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with all due respect you live in a country very different to ours and where other than shotgun ownership there has never been a big shooting community anyway – no-one had to be brainwashed into anti-gun hysteria after Dunblane. Not sure what the shooting of the gent with the chair leg has to do with any hysteria btw – the police officers who shot him certainly were not hysterical but trained firearms officers who opened fire in the genuinely held belief that he had a firearm – hence they were not prosecuted. Neither do we need weapons to protect ourselves from our brothers, sons and fathers in the military. Different countries, very different cultures and traditions

I hope the kids aren't using forks to eat those cupcakes… forks are dangerous and need to regulated by the government via 'safe' (properly educated) armed police (like the ones in the UK who protect the masses from each other…)Come to think of it, cupcakes are full of fat, and should be banned, or better yet taxed… to pay for the enlightened armed police.

'safe' (properly educated) armed police (like the ones in the UK who protect the masses from each other…)Come to think of it, cupcakes are full of fat, and should be banned, or better yet taxed… to pay for the enlightened armed police.
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hmm – we don't have armed police in the UK who protect the masses from each other whatever that means – we have a relatively small number of armed officers who do armed surveillance, high risk arrests, obviously aviation and other security and crew armed response vehicles. 'Enlightened', 'safe'? – just normal men and women doing a difficult job. Its still preferable I think that the majority of times the police are called in the UK they are not going to face firearms (whether in the hands of a criminal or normal citizen who has suddenly lost it)- the recent sad case of the murder of 2 female officers was still the exception that proves the rule and overall officers still are against universal arming

I spent 30.5 years of my life teaching history in Matyland public schools – the Soviet Socialist republic of Maryland and I taught a lot of military history with it as well as the politically correct garbage, which I never hesitated to identify and comment upon.

A principal once told me I could teach history without teaching facts. There is no history without memory. History that is not truthful is propaganda.

during my career, social studies teachers had to justify the value so fteaching about dead people. Now our school system teaches only 20th Century history, not filling the gap from the end of the Civil War to 1900.

I wish I could say that I missed teaching but I do not.