Two-inch LEGO gun gets 4th-grader in trouble

What starts out to be a good idea –

no tolerance for guns in schools – has now gone overboard.

Common sense is abandoned.

Cases like this are becoming all too common. I just don’t know what’s the matter with people sometimes.

That principal ought to feel like an ass making a big deal over a two-inch Lego toy. The problem is, I don’t think he does or he wouldn’t have made a big deal over this toy in the first place. 

Parents left fuming after principal threatens the boy with suspension

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“A tiny toy led to big trouble for one fourth-grade New York City boy.

Patrick Timoney, a 9-year-old student at PS 52 in Staten Island, N.Y., was in the school cafeteria Tuesday playing with LEGOs when he was taken to the principal’s office and threatened with suspension. One of his toys was a LEGO policeman that holds a 2-inch plastic gun. The school has a no-tolerance policy when it comes to toy guns.

“[The gun] was so little,” the boy told WNBC. “I wouldn’t really think that the principal would cause a lot of commotion just for a little gun.”

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