COLUMBUS, Ohio — A central Ohio principal says she suspended a 10-year-old boy from school for three days for pretending his finger was a gun and pointing it at another student’s head.
The boy’s father says it’s the adults who are acting childish. The fifth-grader said he was “just playing around.” But district spokesman Jeff Warner told The Columbus Dispatch that Devonshire Alternative Elementary School Principal Patricia Price has warned students about pretend gun play numerous times.
The boy’s father said no one felt threatened. The other student didn’t see it happen, but a teacher witnessed it.
“People play around like this a lot at my school,” the boy said.
A similar “zero-tolerance” policy was cited last year when a Maryland school suspended a 7-year-old boy who had chewed a Pop-Tart into a gun shape.
