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 #81629  by rosco87
 
text size 7-Year-Old Suspended, Teacher Says He Shaped Pastry into Gun Updated: Friday, March 1 2013, 08:30 PM EST 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." But Josh's dad is not happy saying, "I would almost call it insanity. I mean with all the potential issues that could be dealt with at school, real threats, bullies, whatever the real issue is, it's a pastry.., Ya know?" Josh just wishes he could go back to class, but maintains a good sense of humor through the whole debacle saying, "I didn't get to eat all my breakfast, so, really I am still hungry."

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 #81650  by Dr. Eastwood
 


"Josh has been suspended for two days because he took his breakfast pastry and fashioned it into a gun."



I support school teachers, but this is too far. The stupidity of the reaction is killing me.

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 #81652  by tom_20m
 
I guess common sense and public school teachers shouldn't be used in the same sentence anymore. It appears all these teachers have been brain washed into zero tolerance for guns, even pastry ones.
 #81663  by Guard_Duck
 
tom_20m wrote:I guess common sense and public school teachers shouldn't be used in the same sentence anymore. It appears all these teachers have been brain washed into zero tolerance for guns, even pastry ones.
This happened in Maryland, the land of no common sense.
 #81669  by tom_20m
 
white95zj wrote:
tom_20m wrote:I guess common sense and public school teachers shouldn't be used in the same sentence anymore. It appears all these teachers have been brain washed into zero tolerance for guns, even pastry ones.
This happened in Maryland, the land of no common sense.
Maybe we should take all these teachers and tatoo them with a gun. Let's see how fast they'll turn each other in let alone be able to get a job until the gun tatoo is removed or they change school policy on guns.
 #81687  by SR9
 
Sixty-one years ago when i was his age it didn't matter what shape the pastries or cookies were as long as you brought enought for everyone.
 #81690  by tom_20m
 
SR9 wrote:Sixty-one years ago when i was his age it didn't matter what shape the pastries or cookies were as long as you brought enought for everyone.
61 years ago you could bring a real gun to school and no one would bat an eye. They probably closed school down so that you could go hunting. This still happens in the Midwest.
 #81729  by Kuntryboy816
 
I'm sooooooooo glad that the teachers where my wife works and where my kids go have a fair share of common sense. My oldest wouldn't have made it thru the first week this year with all the pics he draws of me shooting zombies.......... :shock: