Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun

[The Straight Story]

HARMONY, Fla. -

The mother of an 8-year-old Central Florida boy is fighting back after her son was suspended from school for using his finger as a play gun.

Bonnie Bennett said her son, Jordan, was suspended Friday at Harmony Community School in Osceola County after playing cops and robbers with another student.

“There was nothing in his hand. He used his thumb and index finger,” said Bennett. “It was a game. He made no threatening advances or threats to harm anyone. No words were said.”

Bennett said she would have been satisfied with some form of punishment but is worried now that since he's been suspended, her son will be seen as a violent child.

“They took a child that has never been in trouble before and went to the extreme,” said Bennett. “A child that has no history of violence is now classified as a violent offender.”

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[FSogol]

1. Was the finger loaded?

[NightWatcher]

2. To be fair, it was an assault finger and not a hunting finger

[damnedifIknow]

3. Have people totally lost it?

This is going way too far.

[FurSure]

4. why did he get in trouble?

It's not like the kid was carrying an AR-15!

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. The grave danger with zero tolerances is that it can lead to stupid decisions by petty

administrators. I did not buy toy guns for my boys. They used their fingers, sticks, and Legos to make them. I felt it was an excellent use of their imagination.

I don't own a gun and would never allow one in the house unless carried by a duly authorized officer of the law with a warrant.

[rug]

6. We have the right to bear fingers.

[Kaleva]

7. When I was young, boys were allowed to take real guns to school during hunting season.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. zero tolerance = zero intelligence