Unloaded
Joseph Lyssikatos, 12, had a key chain in his backpack at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School in Coventry, R.I., but it fell out. Another student grabbed it and was showing it to other students when a teacher saw it, and confiscated it — because it is in the shape of a gun. The 1-1/2 inch fob earned Joseph, a seventh-grader, a three-day suspension based on the school’s zero tolerance weapons policy. “This boy was the one waving it or showing it to other kids, not Joseph,” his mother complained. “So why weren’t both of them reprimanded?” Neither the principal nor the school superintendent, however, will return her calls. (RC/WJAR Providence) ...Maybe they’d return a lawyer’s calls.Original Publication Date: 29 September 2013
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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