A “threatening” 10-year-old boy was disciplined for shooting a pizza gun in the school cafeteria. Bold emphasis mine.
For the rest of the semester, a Rutherford County elementary student has to eat lunch at the “silent table” for allegedly waving around a slice of pizza some say resembled a gun.
Nicholas Taylor attends David Youree Elementary School in Smyrna, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville.
School leaders say the 10-year-old threatened other students at his lunch table with a piece of pizza with bites out of it so it looked like a gun and when asked about it was initially not truthful.
Nicholas’ mother LeAnn calls her son’s punishment “absolutely ridiculous” saying he was just playing around and never said anything derogatory or anything about shooting anyone.
“The kid across the table from him said it looked like a gun so he picked it up and started shooting it in the air,” she told Nashville’s News 2 Investigates.
Taylor said she learned of the incident when the school sent her a note saying her son was threatening other students.
Did this gun not have a safety? What about a trigger lock? Why wasn’t it unloaded and locked away in a cabinet where no child could reach it? Will the next social force for good be MABB (Mothers Against Barbaric Bites)?
I know Christmas is over, but it seems to me that a pizza gun – whether or not it shoots pepperoni – would be a good fit for the Island of Misfit Toys.
Except the Island of Misfit Toys already has a gun – a water pistol that shoots jelly.
