Boy, 7, suspended for drawing of gun
DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A second-grader's artistic effort has landed him in trouble. Seven-year-old Kyle Walker was suspended for one day last week by school officials in Cape May County for drawing a stick figure shooting a gun.
DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A second-grader's artistic effort has landed him in trouble.
Seven-year-old Kyle Walker was suspended for one day last week by school officials in Cape May County for drawing a stick figure shooting a gun.
His mother told the Press of Atlantic City that officials at Dennis Township Primary School told her the drawing violated a zero-tolerance policy for guns.
Shirley McDevitt said her son told her the drawing showed a water gun and not a firearm.
School officials declined to comment on Friday, and a message left at the superintendent's office on Saturday was not immediately returned.
The case is not the first in New Jersey in which students were suspended for depictions of weapons.
Four kindergarten boys were suspended in 2000 for playing cops and robbers, even though they were using their fingers as guns.