Second-grader suspended for having breakfast pastry shaped like a gun
Yet another student has been suspended for having something that represents a gun, but isn’t actually anything like a real gun.
This time, it was a breakfast pastry.
Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, was suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped the strawberry, pre-baked toaster pastry into something resembling a gun. WBFF, the FOX affiliate in Baltimore, broke the story.
Welch, an arty kid who has reportedly been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, said his goal was to turn it into a mountain, but that didn’t really materialize, reports Fox News.
“It was already a rectangle. I just kept on biting it and biting it and tore off the top of it and kind of looked like a gun,” he said.
“But it wasn’t,” the seven-year-old astutely added.
The boy’s teacher was not happy with his creation.
“She was pretty mad, and I think I was in big trouble,” Welch told the FOX affiliate.
According to the boy’s father, school officials say Welch also said “Bang, bang” while holding the breakfast pastry.
School officials sent home a letter saying, in part: “One of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures.”
Beyond the letter, school officials offered no further comment on the incident, citing privacy concerns.
“They said they had to suspend Josh for two days, because he used his breakfast pastry and fashioned it as a gun,” the elder Welch told WBFF.
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The son, by the stupidity visited on him by teacher.
, now you have to pay attention to the way you eat a pastry or sandwich?
That's all you have to say. 
Postmodernist French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal. Where Plato saw two steps of reproduction — faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum) — Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality, (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which "bears no relation to any reality whatsoever"
And if that seems esoteric...
The image is from The Matrix.
daggers) and it escalated to firearms. If they don't take a firm stand now some kid might realize that apples look like hand grenades - and then people might really get hurt. 
(Caveat: if the "bang bang" and gesturing really happened, and if it was directed at other students, and if young Welch has a history of violent, threatening, or otherwise inappropriate behavior - then a response of some sort by the school would be appropriate...)
