NORWOOD - First-graders at Allison Elementary in Norwood signed a historic peace treaty this week in an effort to end a grueling 130-day history of name-calling, temper tantrums, mean boys, and not sharing. 

Several clauses of the peace accords provided for good-faith efforts on everyone's behalf to cooperate and share with others. 

Signatories agreed that sanctions  would be levied against offenders, in the form of "quiet time-outs", "silent treatment", and the dreaded "embargo on Mike 'n Ikes".

A prominent clause of the peace accords declared the school playground a demilitarized zone.  Peace talks between the 6-year-olds centered around the historic agreement to ban water balloons, hair-pulling, slingshots and super-soakers from all jump-rope, tag and hopscotch activities during recess. 

However, there was one glaring omission: spitballs were not included in the arsenal ban, possibly due to their popularity in Mrs. Michaelson's classroom. 

Whether the historic peace treaty will help preserve last week's uneasy truce between Billy and Randy (when they shook hands and made up) remains to be seen.