7-year-old boy, Josh Welch, suspended for shaping his food into a gun

By: Angel Clark

Josh Welch is a seven-year-old-boy who attends Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. The Maryland school has a breakfast “snack time” and provided pastries on Friday. Josh was trying to turn his pastry into a shape. Josh chewed his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun and was suspended for two days.

Josh had his parents called into the school after the teacher took away his half-eaten breakfast pastry. Josh told Fox Baltimore he was trying to shape the pastry into a mountain, but it looked more like a gun. Regardless of the shape the child was trying to make, the pastry was still simply food and could not actually harm anyone.

Fox Baltimore released the following statement:

7-Year-Old Joshua was suspended this morning from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. Joshua says he was eating a pastry during snack time and trying to shape it into a mountain, the teacher said it looked like a gun and took him to the principal's office. Joshua's parents were called, he has been suspended for two days. Joshua's father says it's ridiculous since no one was threatened or harmed by the pastry. A letter will be going home to all students of Park Elementary School this afternoon. School officials declined to comment due to privacy issues.

Josh stated in a short video clip that he’s going to consider the suspension almost like a vacation, a few days he gets off from school. Many have begun to ask the question, however, as to whether the seven-year-old boy should have been suspended for such an act. The other students at Park Elementary School were sent home with a letter explaining there was a “disruption in school”. Some are contacting the elementary school to let them know how they feel about Josh's "disruption" by calling them at (410)-222-6593.