Posted on 12/17/2011 11:36:36 AM PST by bkopto
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.
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.
He continued, "The student didn't tell him the truth about it so he got silent lunch for six days."
Evans called the punishment minor but said the message is clear.
"I realize some might say we are going overboard but the principal is just trying to use an abundance of caution and send the message that we don't play about guns and it's not something we joke around about," he said.
To that, Taylor said her son knows he shouldn't play with guns.
"We don't have a gun in the house," she said. "He plays with light sabers. He's a big Star Wars fan."
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.
With...a piece of pizza. Ok. Right. What were the "bullets" made out of? Black olives?
Teachers like this are from another galaxy, far, far away.
Awww ... Stick the kid in jail for thirty days with the ninety year old woman yesterday who didn’t mow her lawn.
Seven day waiting period to buy a pizza.
When pizza guns are illegal only Italians will have them.
Geez how times have changed. When I was in kindergarden many moons ago we had one Graham cracker square and a carton of milk for a snack. First thing I did was bite off a corner and voila crude gun shaped cracker to point. And I’m a woman.
Say ‘allo to my little friend!
He should instead have smuggled 3,000 military guns to Mexican drug-dealers (resulting in 3,000 Mexican deaths).
THAT way, he’d get off scott-free.
This one takes a few seconds to draw so there is time to prepare:
http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-1615855-stock-footage-slice-of-pepperoni-pizza.html
It was some good pizza too from a place calle Pie-tanza. I go for supremes, my wife likes the pepperoni.
Paging Herman Cain, paging Herman Cain.
I assume it was a piece of Godfathers Pizza. Either your signature or this tomato sauce will be on that contract.
>> 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.
Seems like the school is run by assholes.
“I used to deer hunt with a guy from New Jersey. He’d put the deer in the trunk and THEN shoot it.”
When I lived in Jersey, I think everyone in the family hit a deer with a car at one time or another. I did grab a fresh road-kill and deliver it to an immigrant Laotian family once. They enjoyed it.
“When I came back the tree was GONE. Completely dissapeared. Like it had never been there.”
My son was a Marine combat engineer. On one reserve exercise here in VA, they encountered a similar pesky little tree. A little C4 and a bangalore torpedo and “what tree, where?”.
The mother should home school her son and sue the school.
These ahole libs are hell-bent on turning American boys into pansy asses.
LOL! This one had to be done on the quiet. We had administrators that were busybodys. I still have no idea how he did it. I bought his beer on our next town liberty.
/johnny
Over a slice of pizza?! What do they teach him, to pick all the pepperoni off it before locking it in the case?
Poor kids and all this PC crap.
School officals: A gun shaped pizza is not a real gun. I remember when my cousins in Pennsylvania pull into school with their gun in the gun rack, so they can go hunting after school. Now, a gun shaped pizza makes a kid into a bad kid.
BTTT
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