Boy Suspended After Taking Toy Gun To Principal

[matcom]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City student is being punished for what he thought was a good deed.

Tuesday morning, a boy waiting for the bus to Oakwood Manor Elementary School in Kansas City dug up what he thought was a gun in the ground.

"It came out real fast. I got a good look at it. It really was a gun. Thank God it was a toy gun," 10-year-old Frasier McCart said.

Frasier wouldn't find out it was a toy until later. He said when he first found it, he wanted to make sure nobody got hurt. Just before the bus arrived at the corner, he put the gun in his backpack so that he could give it to school officials.

"I was thinking, 'I'll give it to the principal, she'll know what to do,'" Frasier said.

"It did look like a real gun," Principal Marla Wasserman said.

She said the boy had good intentions, but while making his way through the hallway to her office, he told another student what he had in his backpack. Wasserman said the boy should not have told another student.

She then suspended him.

http://www.wftv.com/education/4155928/detail.html

[Squatch]

1. Zero tolerance = zero common sense

[elperromagico]

2. He should return to school and shoot the principal full of... water?

:shrug:

[auntAgonist]

3. Unreal! How do we get kids to trust adults when they (the kids)are

punished for doing the right thing?

suspend the principal.

[demnan]

4. He learned two valuable lessons today

1. No good deed goes unpunished.
2. Never trust the ignorant in authority to do the right thing.

[rbnyc]

5. wasted opportunity...

...to teach kids what they should really do if they find a gun. Now all the kid has learned is not to trust adults. Very bad.