Discussion Topic: Tiny LEGO Gun Spells Big Trouble For Student
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And now, the very latest in the ongoing absurdity of zero-tolerance, from The Staten Island Real-Time News:

Patrick Timoney, a fourth-grader at PS 52, South Beach, was nearly suspended after playing with LEGOs during his lunch period because one of the action figures was carrying at toy machine gun.

He and his friends had planned a playdate with their respective toys, and were sitting around the cafeteria table when the principal walked in and saw the action figure carrying the fake gun. . . .

“She took him into her office in the middle of the lunch period and he was crying,” said the boy’s mother, Laura Timoney. “He was afraid.”

The principal called Ms. Timoney and said she considered the toy suspension-worthy, and that she was going to double-check with a security administrator from the city Department of Education.

In the end, the administrator decided against suspending the boy. Apparently, they were satisfied with just terrifying the poor kid.