6-Year-Old Given Detention, Forced to Apologize After Bringing This Seriously Tiny Plastic Gun on School Bus

A 6-year-old kindergarten student in Massachusetts is accused of causing a "disturbance" and "traumatizing" other students by bringing a very tiny plastic toy gun on the school bus last week.

The "gun" brandished by the young boy was barely bigger than a quarter.

The child's mother, Mieke Crane, told WGGB-TV that school officials at Old Mill Pond Elementary in Palmer, Mass., seriously overreacted after another student saw the toy and told the bus driver on Friday.

The driver said the 6-year-old "caused quite a disturbance" and left other children "traumatized," according to Crane.

(WGGB-TV

The kindergartener has been forced to write an apology letter to the bus driver. He was also given detention on Tuesday and may temporarily lose his bus riding privileges.

"I could see if it was, you know, an Airsoft gun or some sort of pistol or live bullets or something. This is just a toy," the stunned mother said.

Additionally, the boy who reportedly yelled about the toy gun on the bus has also been forced to apologize.

Crane said her son did not equate the extremely small plastic toy gun with an actual firearm or weapon.

"At 6 years old, I don’t really think he understood the zero tolerance policy and related it to this as the same," she added.

This is hardly the first instance of young students being taught that anything resembling a gun is bad.

In April, TheBlaze first reported that a New York father had his pistol license revoked after his son and two of his classmates talked about going to a boy's house with a water gun, "paint gun" and a BB gun. School officials called police and apparently felt they had enough cause to revoke John Mayer's handgun license.

In March, a 7-year-old boy was suspended from school for chewing a breakfast pastry into a shape that somewhat resembled a gun. The boy maintained he didn't mean to make his food look like a gun.

In January, a Philadelphia fifth-grader was scolded and even searched in front of her entire class for pulling out a piece of paper that was torn into a gun-like shape. A school administrator reportedly yelled at her while other students called her a "murderer."

Also in January, a 5-year-old girl was suspended for ten days and reportedly labeled a "terrorist threat" for threatening to shoot her friend with a toy bubble gun.

And the list goes on and on.

(H/T: Dana Loesch)

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