4-Year-Old Preschooler Suspended for Bringing Shell Casing to School

By Jenn Jacques

A Collinsville, IL family is learning just how harsh zero tolerance is in today’s schools.

Kristy Jackson says her 4-year-old preschool son Hunter is growing up around guns, and sadly, that’s having a detrimental impact on his education. Jackson said when she went to pick the boy up at his school, Tuesday, she learned he’d been given a seven-day suspension.

“I was met with a stone-faced teacher who said that my son had a shotgun bullet and I was horrified, thinking ‘where could he have got this?’” Jackson said.

Turns out it wasn’t a shotgun bullet, it was a .22 casing the boy acquired on an outing with his grandfather, a Caseyville police officer, who is teaching the young boy about hunting and responsible gun use. Jackson said her son didn’t tell anyone that he had innocently picked up the casing and put it in his pocket that day.

“He’s cried about it and he doesn’t understand why his school hates him,” said Jackson, whose Facebook post on the incident has gone viral.

According to a letter Jackson received from Mallory Lengermann, Director of A Place to Grow in Troy, IL, if Hunter continues to be a typical …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms