7 Year Old Suspended from School Because of a Poptart

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Elizabeth619

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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

Boy, 7, suspended for shaping pastry into gun, dad says | Fox News
 

JimJimmers

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I like how they wouldn't comment due to privacy issues. All the sudden they're concerned about the children or something.
 
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jimmydiggs

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Wouldn't want someone to do a walk-by cinnamon crumbs dropping. He be ridin' dirty.
 
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BarlyGurl

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I sooooooo wanna slap them stupid... oh wait... they already are! :mad:
 
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Tintin

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The stupidity of some people in the world never fails to rile and amuse me.
 
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woojuleedan

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They suspended the wrong people, it is the parents that should be suspended for not socializing with their child enough and having him watch too much violence on the tele. Poor kid, just because mom and dad were too buisy with their own thing, junour has to suffer, what a shame.
 
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Tintin

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The child doesn't have to watch violent TV or be a recluse to make a gun out of a pop tart. He's a boy, that's what they do!
 

rachelsedge

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It really worries me how stupid and ridiculous this is getting.

This
is the type of stuff that a fuss is being made over in schools? A Poptart gun??

 
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AgeofKnowledge

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We should just close down the modern liberal public indoctrination system and issue vouchers to all the parents. It's an overpriced failure. The parents can keep the money and home school with one of the many good home school curriculums available or use it to send their kids to private schools. Of course, some arrangement would need to be made for disabled children and standardized testing would be desirable but it's time for a hard reboot. Shut it down.
 
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ALostSoul

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The world has been scared beyond logic. I remember playing with toy guns as a child pretending to be in a war. I never had a thought of hurting anyone it was all make believe.

These days people are so afraid that they aren't even thinking clearly. The fact that the child got in so much trouble highlighted what he did more than was needed. The problem is we are shining spot lights on things and turning them into HUGE issues. In my day a toy gun wasn't even a thought now it is pumped into kids how scary things are which in my opinion opens up the thought process to the bad possibilities.

Plain and simple the media needs to stop making money highlighting tragedies and causing panic.
 
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Relena7

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So what would they have done if he brought an actual toy gun to school? Hang him?? xD


Seriously though.... what left doesn't get kids suspended these days?

Those schools are just scary with what stupidity they come up with.
 

Nautilus

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i remember i got in trouble once for bringing a toy to show and tell. it was the original megatron from transformers back in the 80s. i didnt know any better at the time since i was maybe 1st grade that it would be such an issue...looking back now i can at least understand why i was in trouble...

G1Megatron_toy.jpg
 

Radius

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Where is the common sense?
 

RickyZ

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The child doesn't have to watch violent TV or be a recluse to make a gun out of a pop tart. He's a boy, that's what they do!
But the boy said he was trying to make a mountain out of the tart. Gun wasn't on his mind, it was on his teacher's.
 
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Tintin

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True, so it's his teacher who should be suspended and banned from watching violence on TV!
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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Thank God it wasn't a Pilsbury toaster strudel,can you imagine the horror of it all? He might have gotten kicked out of school for 6 months,just for excessive tastiness alone.
 

eugenius

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Pretty soon the movie "A christmas story" will be banned because its about a little boy who dreamed of getting a bb gun for Christmas. Come on people!!! Boys like guns, cars, and explosions. Its always been this way and will always be this way.
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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The modern liberal smelly hippy "progressives" that took control of public education after fornicating and defiling themselves with dope in the the late 60's are trying to turn them all into homosexuals and feminists. Lol...

We just need to shut down the immoral failing public education system of devilish indoctrination at this point and issue vouchers. A bonus will be watching all those smelly entitled parasite public employees have to slug it out with each in the private sector just like everyone else.
 

zone

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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

Boy, 7, suspended for shaping pastry into gun, dad says | Fox News
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AoK is right!

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