School suspends 7-year-old for shaping breakfast pastry into ‘shape of a gun’

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 14:40 EST, 2 March 2013 | UPDATED: 16:49 EST, 2 March 2013

 

 

Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, said he was trying to nibble his strawberry snack into a mountain.

But when his teacher saw what he had done, the boy says she got ‘pretty mad’ and he knew he was ‘in big trouble.’ Josh was suspended for two days.

Dangerous? Josh Welch, a seven-year-old boy from Maryland, was suspended from school for two days for shaping a pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gunDangerous? Josh Welch, a seven-year-old boy from Maryland, was suspended from school for two days for shaping a pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun

Threat: The school sent home a letter with every student informing parents that: 'A student used food to make an inappropriate gestureThreat: The school sent home a letter with every student informing parents that: ‘A student used food to make an inappropriate gesture

Josh’s dad was called by the school and informed that his son had been suspended for two days.

The school sent home a letter with every student informing parents that: ‘A student used food to make an inappropriate gesture.’

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