The 7 year old (he is now 8) who got a two day suspension for chewing his Pop Tart® into the shape of a gun…
When pressed by a CBS Baltimore reporter, though, (Joshua) Welch said, “When I was done, it turned out to be a gun, yeah.”
…was awarded a lifetime membership to the NRA, a $550.00 value.
And that’s great, but what really caught my eye from the same article was this: Park Elementary told parents it would give counseling to any children who needed it after the Pop-Tart incident.
Really? Counseling over the “pop tart incident?”
Here’s what the average elementary school kid is going to say about the pop tart incident. ” Can I get a PopTart?”
In related news, how long before the same school bans Pop Tarts® because they have the words ‘Pop’ (a sound synonymous with gun fire) and Tart, a derogatory term used to describe loose women? (and because you can chew them into the shape of a gun.)