DOOLEY Observed: Missouri boy, 7, punished at school for 9/11 souvenir shell casing

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Missouri boy, 7, punished at school for 9/11 souvenir shell casing

Yes, we are heading there fast, in a hand basket.

A 7-year-old Missouri boy was punished by school officials last week for bringing to class a souvenir shell casing that had been given to him and his fellow Cub Scouts at a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony.

Sherry Falke said her son Zane came home from school in Norborne on Tuesday crying hysterically. He was given the keepsake at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Carrollton, and was sent to the principal’s office for showing it to fellow classmates at school, a local Fox affiliate reported.

Officials reportedly threatened to suspend the boy for 10 days, but instead made him take a silent lunch, where he ate by himself, and miss two recesses.

Ms. Falke said she thinks the school went overboard.

“The principal proceeded to reprimand him as though he were bringing live ammunition to school. I understand that’s in the policy, in the handbook, that they can’t bring guns to school, I fully support that, but it’s an empty blank casing,” she told the station.

Dr. Roger Feagan, the superintendent of the Norborne R-VIII School District, said: “In today’s society, unfortunately, we do have to be concerned with those types of things in schools.”