All the teacher saw was a 7 yr old with a bullet. That teacher probably wasn’t a firearms expert, and certainly didn’t know the origin, status, or provenance of the “empty brass tube”.
But they were responsible for enforcing a school policy meant to protect the safety and well-being of the other students.
Not to be hyper-technical, but nobody saw a bullet anywhere in this episode.
I bet the teacher knows which insects sting and might hurt the kids, and probably knows that if a kid eats paste, its ok - while drinking draino is an emergency.
Why wouldn’t we expect a teacher to have similar rudimentary knowledge about what type of brass colored metal is bad for you? You really can’t use the teacher’s ignorance of what a bullet looks like as an excuse for their over-reaction.
Of course an adult might gave been concerned, but when any SANE adult would have looked at the ‘bullet’ they would have seen that it was completely harmless and asked the child to tell the rest of the class about the ceremony where he got it, and would have given the child extra credit points.
Do you really think that casing is more dangerous than a pencil or a pen?
But we live in a world where PICTURES of guns are considered dangerous, so I guess panic is expected.
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The teacher saw a student with a worthless piece of brass and over-reacted because that’s what liberals do!
“But they were responsible for enforcing a school policy meant to protect the safety and well-being of the other students.”
Actually, it is more likely this vilification/demonizing of anything fire-arm related is part of an effort to erode support for the Second Amendment. Raise generation(s) fearful and/or hating firearms and ammunition then the gun-grabbers win.
pencils are far more dangerous than an empty brass tube