We have yet another case of lunacy in our schools as part of the zero tolerance policy regarding guns. We have previously explored how teachers and school administrators are expelling or suspending students for everything from finger guns to stick figures. (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here). For a prior column, click here. Now, Josh Welch, 7, was suspended for two days because he nibbled on his strawberry tart and made it look like a gun. He picked up the fearsome Danish and said “bang, bang” and a teacher reported was irate.
In the latest example of a zero-tolerance policy concerning weapons brought to school that some see as having been taken to an extreme, a 7-year-old boy was suspended for two days over a breakfast pastry.
William “B.J.” Welch, the boy’s father, insists “It was harmless. It was a danish.” Yet, the teacher and the administrators at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Md., were irate. An assistant principal said in a letter to all parents that a student had “used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class” and offered counseling to any student who might need it. Counseling for a lethal pop tart? At what point do administrators or teachers actually get fired for such foolishness?
By the way, Josh Welch suffers from ADHD and has a particular flare for art.
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.”
I simply cannot imagine the thought process of the teacher who was reported visibly upset with the nibbled pastry and took it upon herself to seize the child and his tart. Then you have the school administrator who did not simply tell the teacher that her reaction was absurd and instead suspended the child. In this story, the most reasonable party appears to be the seven-year-old with the ADHD. He apologized and could have been simply told not to nibble his tarts into gun shapes. These cases continue to arise because there is no response to teachers and administrators in taking such actions. These officials hide behind “zero tolerance” policies as an excuse for zero judgment or thought.
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Gee, I don’t eat poptarts very often but they usually like a gun in the early stages, a crude one, but a gun nevertheless. Think the NRA will give me a membership?
Eight-Year-Old Receives NRA Membership After Shaping ‘Pop-Tart’ Into Gun
The National Rifle Association has given an eight-year-old boy a free lifetime membership, after he ate a Pop-Tart and shaped it into a gun at an elementary school in Baltimore.
Reports indicate that Joshua Welch’s free membership into the NRA is valued $550. He received the membership Wednesday night at a fundraiser for the Anne Arundel County Republicans. After receiving his membership, he resumed the games he was playing on his cell phone.
Put the school on LOCK-DOWN, he has a pop-tart and it’s pointed at me! It’s a good thing he didn’t have leggos built into the shape of a gun, we may have to call in National Security.
No common sense in public schools? They will never see my children walking through those doors. Stupid people can not make intelligent self-thinking kinds. Home schooling seems to be the only way to go if you want to end up with self-sufficient well adjusted adults. It only took one stupid incident for us to permanently remove our children from the sheeple education, they didn’t get a second chance.