Parents left fuming after principal threatens the boy with suspension
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.ok, i see the necessity of having a no guns (toy or otherwise) policy in a school but this is a little absurd. there has to be a line drawn somewhere... if it were a full-sized gun that might be accidentally identified as a real weapon, that's where the concern is. a solid piece of plastic no bigger than a child's finger doesn't bother me as much.
as a side note, my love of LEGO might have me on a bit of i biased tack here... but if other people weren't as laughably concerned as me, this wouldn't even be news.
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