Josh Welch, age 7, is Baltimore student suspended for chewing a pop tart into the shape of gun
A 7-year-old boy Baltimore boy was suspended from school after his teacher complained that the boy chewed a breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun, the boy’s father says.
In a note that was sent to parents Friday, Park Elementary School officials told parents only that “a student used food to make an inappropriate gesture,” WBFF-TV of Baltimore reported.
The boy, Josh Welch, a second-grader, told the station he was actually trying to shape a mountain.
“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.”
B.J. Welch, his father, called Josh’s two-day suspension “insanity.”
“With all the potential issues that could be dealt with at school — real threats, bullies, whatever — the real issue is, it’s a pastry,” he told WBFF. “You know?”
Educators have been extra sensitive to representations of weapons in the wake of the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecitcut – check out some of the stories under the category: Sandy Hook hysteria
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