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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:48 PM Mar 2013

7 year old suspended for shaping breakfast pastry into gun

Children at Park Elementary School went home with a letter today explaining there was a disruption in school. Seven year old Josh Welch, and his father, say the disruption lead to a two day suspension for the second grader in Brooklyn Park. Academics are hard for Josh, who suffers from ADHD, but he excels in art class. It is Josh's own creativity that may have gotten him into trouble. At Park Elementary school, Josh was enjoying his breakfast pastry when he decided to try and shape it into a mountain. Josh said, "It was already a rectangle and I just kept on biting it and biting it and tore off the top and it kinda looked like a gun but it wasn't."

Josh takes full responsibly for trying to shape his breakfast pastry, but admits it was in innocent fun. He told FOX45, "All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn't look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun kinda." When his teacher saw the strawberry tart he knew he was in trouble, he recalls, "She was pretty mad…and I think I was in big trouble." Josh's dad received a phone call from the school saying that Josh has been suspended for two days because he took his breakfast pastry and fashioned it into a gun. Josh's dad was astounded to learn the school chose such a harsh punishment, even after no one was hurt. Late Friday afternoon a letter went home with students explaining the incident saying, "A student used food to make an inappropriate gesture."

Read More at: http://foxbaltimore.com/news/features/featured/stories/7yearold-suspended-teacher-says-he-shaped-pastry-into-gun-635.shtml#.UTI6izesp7k

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7 year old suspended for shaping breakfast pastry into gun (Original Post) cali Mar 2013 OP
Could have been planning a prison break... JoeBlowToo Mar 2013 #1
I so wanted this to be the onion.. alas. X_Digger Mar 2013 #2
Fucking moron teachers guardian Mar 2013 #3
Who needs 3-D printers? Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #4
This country has gone to complete shit and irrationality is the rule of the day. SMGDH!!! eom ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2013 #5
FFS bluedigger Mar 2013 #6
If only they'd take teaching the children as seriously. MineralMan Mar 2013 #7
A pastry shaped like a gun? Pararescue Mar 2013 #8
Remember, when Pop-Tarts are outlawed... Buns_of_Fire Mar 2013 #9
LOL! NoMoreWarNow Mar 2013 #11
Thank god! Crepuscular Mar 2013 #10
Yes there were lucky. guardian Mar 2013 #12
And these are the teachers we want to carry guns, teach religion, and diagnose mental illness Buzz Clik Mar 2013 #13
That teacher is a boob... riverbenddem Mar 2013 #14
thank God for Fox affiliates Enrique Mar 2013 #15
+1. and once again, the respondents in this thread see this as big stuff & the takeover & privati- HiPointDem Mar 2013 #17
Good Lord. What a ridiculous over-reaction. Cairycat Mar 2013 #16
Zero tolerance stupidity strikes again. Peter cotton Mar 2013 #18
 

guardian

(2,282 posts)
3. Fucking moron teachers
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:51 PM
Mar 2013

The teachers/administrators that suspended this kid should be fired and forbidden from ever entering a public school again.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
7. If only they'd take teaching the children as seriously.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:58 PM
Mar 2013

And so it goes...

Perhaps they should suspend that teacher for having no common sense at all.

 

Pararescue

(131 posts)
8. A pastry shaped like a gun?
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:59 PM
Mar 2013

And the child gets a 2 day suspension? What ever happened to common sense in our nation's schools?

Buns_of_Fire

(17,121 posts)
9. Remember, when Pop-Tarts are outlawed...
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 02:02 PM
Mar 2013

I guess they were afraid he'd progress to being a cereal killer.

Crepuscular

(1,057 posts)
10. Thank god!
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 02:10 PM
Mar 2013

Thank god the pastry didn't go off!

Breaking news, Sesame Street announces cancelling all future programming related to the letter "L", to prevent any confusion that they might be advocating for the use of handguns.

 

guardian

(2,282 posts)
12. Yes there were lucky.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 02:17 PM
Mar 2013

Now I'm waiting for Mayor Bloomberg to ban pastry guns with high calorie magazines.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
15. thank God for Fox affiliates
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:47 PM
Mar 2013

they are the only ones with the guts to report on minor disciplinary actions by local schools. I knew when I saw this headline it was going to be Fox.

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
17. +1. and once again, the respondents in this thread see this as big stuff & the takeover & privati-
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:58 PM
Mar 2013

zation of public schools as unworthy of comment.

Cairycat

(1,697 posts)
16. Good Lord. What a ridiculous over-reaction.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 03:55 PM
Mar 2013

They should see what the kids at my school do with tortillas - of course you have to chew out circles for the eyes and nose, and a semi-circle for the mouth. Thank God the teachers don't perceive them as being like bank robbers' masks!


"cereal killer"

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