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."

Comment: Further confirmation, as if we already needed it, that the United States of America is certifiably insane. Between his sense of humor and his basic human intelligence (a vanishingly rare thing these days), Josh will no doubt soon be labelled with Oppositional defiant disorder. Long may he 'suffer' from it, because at this rate, he'll be one of the few to emerge from our collective dystopian nightmare with his mind still intact.





The suspicious pastry was immediately quarantined while school administrators checked that it was not loaded and in safety-off mode

need to quarantine some of those School Administrators under the care of Nurse Ratched!

they're retarded, there is no other answer...

You're giving retarded people a bad name with that comparison

This is how stupid things have become. I would have gotten into alot of trouble in high school. I made my own comic books and drew many weapons.

Let's just suspend society...

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This just in!

Scary as heck when it thunders (bang!bang!)....

should have suspended them for ten days instead!

I think that the bigger issue was that he child pointed it at a student and said, “bang bang”. The other children in the classroom were offered counseling over the traumatic event.

Okay, I understand that many 7 year olds are aware of the horrific school shootings that occur all too often these days, and it’s very important to make a child feel safe and secure in their school environment. I GET why they don’t want a gun in a classroom to become a joke in the form of a pop tart, but 2 days suspension?

I think this punishment was not as much for the (obviously inadvertent) mistake the child made, but for the benefit of the parents of the other children.

I think, in the same spirit of teaching to the least responsive students, they are now punishing, potential controversy, to the approval of the most sensitive parents.

If you ask me, this system does not allow kids to be kids, while at the same time insults their intelligence as being too oblivious to tell when a gun is a threat or a.......POP TART!

I use to play cops and robbers with my cousin. Now if you do that at school they kick you out. I swear that my finger was not loaded.

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/school-suspended-for-using-letter-l-that-looks-like-a-gun-t10817.html


In the wake of the thwarted Pop Tart attack, jittery school administrators denounced an entire student body and several teachers for violating the zero tolerance policies regarding images of guns at school. This resulted in the entire school being placed on lockdown for most of the day while police conducted their investigation. All students have been suspended and are facing expulsion.

"From now on we will not tolerate the use of the capital letter 'L'" stated an unnamed district spokesman "Turned sideways, it has an uncanny resemblance to a handgun and we seriously believe that this was the inspiration that prompted the letter's design".

As a response, congress is now contemplating a bill to make the use and possession of a capital "L" a felony and suggested banning the use of the lower case letter as well due to its resemblance to a high capacity magazine.

We understand the Colorado House has already passed a bill holding ink manufacturers and publishers liable for any injuries or deaths resulting from the misuse of the capital "L" and the Governor said he is ready to sign. The Colorado Senate is expected to pass the legislation later this week....
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I played cowboys and Indians...with the real Indian boy that lived next door. I have a small, faint scar on my forehead from the time he pushed down too hard with the stick he was pretending was a knife, where he was scalping me

We didn’t hate each other, in fact we were best friends. It didn’t diminish in any way the reality of how horrifically the Indian Nations were treated. It didn’t shape our minds into believing it was okay to hate or disregard another race due to their differences. It was simply children play acting the themes of the only movies that were on television in those days. And feathers were really fun to wear!

As sensitive as people are about those kinds of games, I was shocked the other day to find that those old plastic cowboys and Indians sets are still sold in toy stores. You know, the ones with the plastic platform attached to the little feet so they will stand.

People are too sensitive, I think we are raising pansy children who will increase the divorce rate because they never learned tolerance for another, imo.

i call it the liberal infusion...

Has it got anything to do with being PC?

seems like it...

liberals should change their label to PC'ers...

Even worse...



We are conditioning our children to feel that everything in life is to be feared.

Which is a crazy theory not in anyway backed by the skyrocketing rate of children taking Xanax. (Was that too sarcastic?)

sounds like folk are a little jumpy these days. I am afraid personally to enter a public school these days. Still that one is over the top.

My son at 6 yrs old was placed in a special education class for reading. I almost took him out of school, but he liked the teacher so I let him decide. the class turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.

In the fourth grade at 9 yrs old his teacher complained more than once that the boy was staring out the window during math class. well, the sky is interesting is it not? and he was completed with the math. He stopped staring out the window. Then she complained that he was reading during math....oh the horror...I wonder would she prefer he throw things???? His math was always completed in half the time.....but this woman could think of nothing to accommodate that.

I imagine that kind of intelligence most teachers would love to accommodate....apparently that reality exists only in my imagination......oh, and to top it off, this same teacher knew my son had been in special ed for reading in the first grade....why didn't she see the victory there????

here's some irony for his elementary and jr high teachers to chew on ...lol...this same 9y/o, now 24 y/o has an Associate Degree in Mathematics, and Bachelor Degree in Physics, and

this week he is taking his Candidacy exam for his PhD in Engineering (Electrical, I think). Good Luck Son

Cool. EE is a lot of fun! Congrats!