Montgomery County School District officials have suspended 6-year-old Rodney Lynch from a school in Silver Spring, Maryland after the boy pointed his fingers at another student in a gesture that resembled a gun.
School officials said the boy’s actions were threatening and believed that he was saying that he was going to shoo the other student. Lynch’s parents received a letter from the vice principal of the school advising them that their son had been suspended for one day due to his actions. According to the letter, teachers reprimanded Rodney spoke to Rodney on several occasions after he was seen making the gun gesture with his hand. After the third warning officials suspended him.
Lynch’s parents are attempting to work the issue out with the school district and have their son’s record expunged.
This isn’t the first time that an elementary school student has been suspended for hand gestures. Back in August 3-year-old Hunter Spanjer who is deaf was suspended from school because officials said when he said his name in sign language the symbol resembled a gun.
I understand that extra precautions need to be made in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, but sometimes a little bit of common sense can go a long way. The school administrators rushed to suspend the boy without even talking to the parents to make the aware of the issue.
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