Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice

[golocx4]

Hoplophobia is a learned disease.

[shermr]

Apparently there is a little more to this story, the article states: He's being punished because "some students reported he was making some threatening hand gestures, that he was shooting other kids at the table and they reported it to a teacher," according to Evans. He continued, "The student didn't tell him the truth about it so he got silent lunch for six days."
So I have to ask myself; how would I like to be shot with a slice of pizza, would it hurt as much as being shot with a finger? I don't know if I would have what it takes to attend todays schools, I would likely be a 1st grade expellee.

[mappow]

I wonder if DuPont makes a pepperoni proof Kevlar vest, hummmmm. Could be a patent here!

[JimPage]

I have zero tolerance of zero tolerance policies.

[BC1]

The real crime here is the quality of school lunches. Perhaps the pizza IS a deadly weapon.

[Tucker's Mom]

Playing with food is just wrong! ;-)

Aw comeon...I am a photographer and we play with food all the time we do a shoot in that department. We just can't eat them afterwards ... :))) Teaching our kids to play with their food is a great way to encourage them to eat vegetables for one...even the winter snowman likes his carrot nose,eh??? Learned to love playing with food after I went on my own. It's fun.

[father-of-three]

I have dealt with several students who were sent to a hospital emargency department for "evaluation" for similar incidents. Then again, I work in New Jersey, which is probably the main reason for the system dysfunction. The "Finger gun" is often perceived as a dangerous weapon in New Jersey!

[tuts40]

How many times do ya hafta shoot it before it heats up enough to cook the dough?