Gun-shaped strawberry tart upsets teacher
A Maryland second-grader was suspended for shaping his breakfast pastry into a gun. Josh Welch, 7, says he was trying to make the strawberry tart into the shape of a mountain. But a teacher thought it looked like a gun, Josh was suspended, and all parents were sent a note explaining that “a student used food to make an inappropriate gesture.”
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