Maryland boy, 6, suspended from school for making gun gesture with hand and saying ‘pow’

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-01-03 03:29

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'A Maryland family is fighting the one day school suspension of a 6-year-old boy who made a gun gesture with his thumb and forefinger while in class.

The boy was suspended after pointing the finger gun at a classmate and saying “pow,” WTOP reported. The incident came a week after a gunman stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 26 people, including 20 children.

The boy’s family said they got a letter from Roscoe Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md. saying the child was being suspended over the gun gesture and had also been spoken to about a "similar incident,” the Washington Examiner reported.

The family also obtained a lawyer.'

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