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7-Year Old Suspended for Gun-Shaped Pastry

7-Year Old Suspended for Gun-Shaped Pastry

A 7-year old elementary school student was suspended because the breakfast pastry he was eating was shaped to look like a gun, at least according to his teacher.

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The boy claimed that he was merely shaping his strawberry pastry into a mountain, but the teacher believed it looked more like a gun and took him to the principal’s office. The boy’s parents were called and he was suspended for two days. All of the students in the school took home a letter for their parents, stating there was a “disruption” at school and “one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures.”

The boy was interviewed in a video posted online (since removed), which we have transcribed below:

So what happened while you were eating your pastry?
I was trying to turn it into a mountain and it turned out to be a gun and my teacher came out and threw it away.

Now you’re suspended?
Yeah. For two days. But that’s all for Saturday and Sunday. That’s all, but lucky I get two days off.

So you’re pastry was in the shape of a what?
A gun.

Did you mean to do that?
No.

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In a comment left on FoxBaltimore’s Facebook page, the boy’s father gives an extended account  in which he discussed the incident with the school principal. It was claimed that the boy “went bang bang” after shaping the pastry, which constituted a threat. The boy denied this in an interview with WBFF. The father also stated that the principal asserted that “people are just afraid of guns. I asked the principal if SHE disliked guns and she said she did not like them.” He also suggests in the comments that, “this whole thing stems from the current anti-gun crusade.”

What do you think of this story? Are school officials going overboard in their reaction to incidents like these, or were they justified for suspending the student?

 

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