9 Year Old Banned From Wearing My Little Pony Backpack To School

School Calls 9-Year-Old's My Little Pony Backpack a 'Trigger for Bullying'

People - (North Carolina)

Unfortunately, bullies at his school in Buncombe County, N.C., don't share his taste in television.

The decades-old franchise's current incarnation is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, in which the titular characters laud the importance of friendship.

"Most of the characters in the show are girls ... most of the toys are girly ... surprisingly I found stuff like this," Grayson, 9, told local station WLOS-TV, referring to his blue backpack.

But bullies have targeted him because of the accessory: Grayson says kids are "taking it a little too far, with punching me, pushing me down, calling me horrible names, stuff that really shouldn't happen."

The school's solution was to tell Grayson to leave the backpack at home, claiming it had become a distraction and was a "trigger for bullying," according to WLOS-TV.

Grayson's mother, Noreen, disagrees. "Saying a lunchbox is a trigger for bullying is like saying a short skirt is a trigger for rape. It's flawed logic, it doesn't make any sense," she told WLOS-TV.

This school is saving this kids life. FOR ONCE, a school is doing the right thing and protecting the student. Back in my day, I wouldn't be caught dead with something Teletubby or Barney related on school grounds. No thank you. This kid willingly bought a blue My Little Pony backpack and wore it in everyone's face.

The school is literally telling the parents, "Hey ma'am, your son is wicked soft and can't wear that soft shit in here or else EVERYONE is gonna rip him a new one."

And then the parents give the rebuttal that, "Yeah so what my son is soft, you should let him be soft. Banning soft backpacks are equivalent to rape."

Lady, get a clue. If your son was wearing a short skirt, he would also be sent home. Sometimes kids need some tough love when they're young in order to figure out what's right and what's wrong. Now you're inviting bigger kids to steal your son's Lunchables and whip dodgeballs at his nuts.

Nerds, fat kids, and smelly kids at this school must be pumped that this kid just painted a huge "kick me" sign on his back.

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