Child Suspended for Brandishing Chicken
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From Times Wire Reports
An 8-year-old boy was suspended from school for three days after pointing a breaded chicken finger at a teacher and saying “Pow, pow, pow.”
The boy, who apparently violated the Jonesboro School District’s zero-tolerance policy against weapons, was suspended last week.
Kelli Kissinger, mother of first-grader Christopher, said: “It’s just a piece of chicken. How could you play like it’s a gun?”
In March 1998, four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others wounded when two youths opened fire on a schoolyard at Jonesboro’s Westside Middle School.
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