Slice of Pizza Shaped Like a Gun Makes Tennessee School Discipline a 10-Year-Old
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 20, 2011
Harassment or horseplay? A boy in a Tennessee school is being disciplined by officials for waving about a slice of pizza shaped vaguely like a gun
Hot on the heels of one Massachusetts school district banning cookies and sweet treats from students’ holiday parties, we have more PC overreaction in a Tennessee school.
Fooling around with a slice of pizza, apparently, is no minor offense.
Reported by Pundit & Pundette, Lethal pizza: Another reason to homeschool:
The threatening pizza slice didn’t actually shoot pepperoni bullets, but you can’t be too careful!
“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. [. . .]
James Evans, spokesperson for the Rutherford County School District, said the boy isn’t being punished because he had a piece of pizza shaped like a gun.
He’s being punished because “some students reported he was making some threatening hand gestures, that he was shooting other kids at the table and they reported it to a teacher,” according to Evans.
Are we to imagine the other children actually felt threatened by the pizza-gun? I guess it’s possible, given the mental straitjackets these poor kids are strapped into by the thought-controlling educrats who run their schools. This is pure Orwell. I don’t see how children can develop normally when they have to edit or suppress every normal, innocent impulse for fear of crossing some crazy, arbitrary, politically-correct line.
From WKRN News, Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice:
SMYRNA, Tenn. – 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.
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In addition to lunch at the silent table, Nicholas has spent time with the school resource officer learning about gun safety.
Taylor said the school system has made it clear that if her son eats his pizza into the shape of a gun again and there is a similar occurrence, he will be suspended.
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