From Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa – A 6-year-old home-schooler who ran afoul of “zero tolerance” policies was suspended because he took a shotgun shell to his school.
The first-grader’s mother, Charlene Beattie, says the one-week suspension imposed by the Des Moines school district, lacked common sense.
Beattie says her son, Matthias, is “a little kid from the farm” who had no intent to do any harm.
Matthias’ parents say he found the shell as they cleared out a wall of their Carlisle farmhouse. The Beatties say they didn’t know the boy had the shell when they dropped him off last week at his public school class.
Matthias isn’t a public school student in the eyes of state law, and his class meets at a church. But district officials say home school students are bound to discipline policies.
District home-schooling coordinator Leslie Dahm calls live ammunition a “serious threat.”
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Information from: The Des Moines Register,http://www.desmoinesregister.com
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