7 year old boy suspended for shaping pastry into gun.

• Paul wrote on 2013-04-09 16:35

  A 7-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for two days for shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun, according to his father.
  FoxBaltimore.com reports that Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, was eating a strawberry tart when he decided to shape it into a mountain.
  "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 [kind of]," Josh told the station.
  Josh, who suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, said his teacher was visibly mad when she saw that the pastry looked like a gun, according to the report.
  The boy's dad, who was not identified in the report, was later notified that Josh had been suspended for two days for fashioning the pastry into a gun.
  A letter was sent home with students explaining that "a student used food to make an inappropriate gesture," the station reported.
  School officials declined to a request for comment from FoxBaltimore.com due to privacy issues.
  
  

  
  
  Source, video included.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2013-04-09 16:44
  OH NO, THAT BOY SHAPED A GUN WHICH BY ITSELF WILL KILL COUNTLESS LIVES!
  
  Give me a break, who ISN'T aware of what a gun is or is not?
  
  What they should do instead is TEACH kids about the consequences of what pulling a trigger will do but not in a way that'll cause widespread fear for them like badly done sex ed.
• Kouki wrote on 2013-04-09 16:47
  I remember I almost got suspended in third or fourth grade for climbing a tree lol. Apparently because they were "worried" about us falling.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2013-04-09 17:17
  No one told him he can't shape it like that, and guns are not really taboos. I think it's pretty unfair he got suspended for it.
• Kouki wrote on 2013-04-09 18:30

  Quote from TLCBonaparte;1065512:

  No one told him he can't shape it like that, and guns are not really taboos. I think it's pretty unfair he got suspended for it.

  
  
  Yeah, for all they know, it could have been a water gun... or even better, a gun that shoots candy. :D
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-04-09 21:21
  I blame the fucking media and sensationalism it's been causing for this bullshit. I mean ever since the newtown massacre people have been getting their panties in a bunch over it. It's absolutely sickening and retarded.
  
  Has society gotten so afraid of their own shadow that they have to punish kids for stuff that kids do all the fucking time?!
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-04-09 21:28

  Quote from Kingofrunes;1065671:

  Has society gotten so afraid of their own shadow that they have to punish kids for stuff that kids do all the fucking time?!

  
  
  Yes.
  
  Relevant.
  [video=youtube;OTQdUMvRHlA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTQdUMvRHlA[/video]
• Cynic wrote on 2013-04-09 21:49
  I fully support warning kids about gun violence (as well as many other types of violence.. amongst various other things), but refusing to actually educate kids and then punishing them for doing something that they didn't know what was wrong is fucking daft. I mean really.
• Xemnas wrote on 2013-04-09 22:47
  How long until kids get sent to prison for pointing their fingers at each other and saying 'bang!'
• Osayidan wrote on 2013-04-09 23:07
  Logic --> [window]
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2013-04-09 23:19

  Quote from Xemnas;1065745:

  How long until kids get sent to prison for pointing their fingers at each other and saying 'bang!'

  
  
  With the US debt they won't be able to afford prisons pretty soon :P
• Osayidan wrote on 2013-04-10 12:13

  Quote from TLCBonaparte;1065761:

  With the US debt they won't be able to afford prisons pretty soon :P

  
  
  Private prisons are doing well aren't they?
• Magenera wrote on 2013-04-10 12:19

  Quote from Osayidan;1066088:

  Private prisons are doing well aren't they?

  
  They are far more expensive to maintain than public actually.