First Grader Suspended for Bringing Cherries to School
Unlike most other kids his age, little Jimmy Somorres loves to eat healthy foods. He enjoys having all kinds of fruit and vegetables in his lunch.
So, when his mom got a great deal on cherries at the grocery store, she didn’t think twice about packing them in Jimmy’s lunchbox.
But, during lunch, a teacher spotted Jimmy showing off the cherries to his classmates, and promptly took him straight to the principal’s office.
Jimmy’s cherries were confiscated and destroyed. He was sent home along with a five day suspension for violating his school’s weapons policy.
At his grade school, they have a no tolerance policy for weapons or anything that resembles a weapon.
Said the principal, “Cherries look like cherry bombs, so bringing them to school is a clear violation of our policy.”
Reminded that cherry bombs are so named because they look like cherries, and not the other way around, the principal replied that “It doesn’t matter. This time, it was cherries. The next thing it could be the real thing. It could one day be a banana bomb or an atom apple. We have to play it safe. This is how we have to live in a post-911 world.”
Early this year, second grader Mikey Aosum was suspended for a week after posing like Joseph Ducreux, whose photo he saw in an art book. The principal said his hand somewhat resembled a hand gun, and, thus, was in violation of the school’s weapons policy.
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