12-Year-Old Boy Suspended over Toy Gun Seen in His Online Class – By Alberto Luperon (Law and Crime) / Sept 7 2002
A Colorado student was recently suspended over a toy gun seen in an online art class. A deputy was sent to his home. Now his mother has taken him out of his K-8 school after the incident left her fearful for his safety.
“Having toys in my house is something I thought I never had to think of,” mother Dani Elliott told BuzzFeed News in a Sunday report. “It never crossed my mind that toys could be seen as a threat.”
Her son Isaiah Elliott, a seventh grader at Grand Mountain School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was suspended five days over the incident.
Two students, whose names were redacted, were seen playing with a handgun during an online art class, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office incident report (h/t KOAA). The assistant principal told deputies that according to the art teacher, one of the student’s waved “around a toy gun.” She said she asked for clarification, and the teacher said she assumed it was a toy gun but was not sure.
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