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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."
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JoeBlowToo
(253 posts)just like the guys who made guns out of bars of soap.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Zero tolerance = zero thought
guardian
(2,282 posts)The teachers/administrators that suspended this kid should be fired and forbidden from ever entering a public school again.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Here all this time gun-owners have been called
paranoid.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)We really are doomed.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)And so it goes...
Perhaps they should suspend that teacher for having no common sense at all.
Pararescue
(131 posts)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)I guess they were afraid he'd progress to being a cereal killer.
NoMoreWarNow
(1,259 posts)Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)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)Now I'm waiting for Mayor Bloomberg to ban pastry guns with high calorie magazines.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)riverbenddem
(13 posts)n/t
Enrique
(27,461 posts)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)zation of public schools as unworthy of comment.
Cairycat
(1,697 posts)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"