you guys are weird: It's not too soon, the time is now for us as a nation to have a conversation about breakfast pastries

Schools have every reason to be on high alert these days for any sort of gun-related problems, so it's only to be expected that they might occasionally go just a little too far. However, we may be going a little over the top in some cases:

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.

How awful! I imagine he'd have been just jailed immediately if he'd done this:

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."

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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.

Were they hesitant to release the rest of the details because they thought they were too horrible for parents to hear? "Then he lifted the pastry to his mouth, and screams filled the dining room."

The boy, Josh Welch, a second-grader, told the station he was actually trying to shape a mountain, "but it didn't look like a mountain really, and it turned out to be a gun, kinda."

So you're saying he got suspended for being bad at making his food into shapes. I'm glad they didn't do this when I was seven, because A) I made everything from Legos to food to like, sticks and shit that I found outside into a gun and B) I was shitty at art so even when I wasn't trying to make something a gun, it might turn out that way. Seven was a tough year. Luckily for students, anyone who was traumatized by the pastry incident has access to all necessary school resources. The following is excerpted from a letter the school sent home regarding the incident:

If your children express that they are troubled by today's incident, please talk with them and help them share their feelings. Our school counselor is available to meet with any students who have the need to do so next week. In general, please remind them of the importance of making good choices.

Lovely.

you guys are weird

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

It's not too soon, the time is now for us as a nation to have a conversation about breakfast pastries

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