A kid in New Jersey was suspended from school earlier this month after it was discovered he had a foam “bullet” — the kind you shoot out of a Nerf gun — in his pocket.
Aarin Moody, a fifth-grader at the Uptown School Complex — a campus of the Atlantic City School District — earned a week-long suspension after he reached into his pocket to fish for a late note from his mother, and the Nerf bullet fell out.
“I pulled out my late slip, and that’s when the item fell out of my pocket and a teacher had seen it,” Aarin told Fox News.
Compounding Aarin’s grave offense was the reported fact that his foam bullet had a toothpick pressed into it — an aggravating circumstance that transformed the device, in school administrators’ eyes, into a “self-constructed weapon.”
Aarin told Fox News that he indeed stuck toothpicks into his Nerf bullets, because he had found that doing so helped them stick in the ground when fired from the Nerf gun. But the fifth-grader said the school’s adults were intentionally casting his simple mistake — if forgetting what benign item you have in your pocket can even be called a mistake — as something more sinister.
“They want me to like say that I did it on purpose, I put it in my pocket to hurt someone,” he told a local newspaper.
At least Aarin wasn’t expelled — which is what the school originally intended to do, until his mother protested the zero-tolerance treatment.
Since serving his week-long suspension, Aarin is now serving an in-school probation, during which the school reserves the right to expel him if it finds something scary — like another piece of foam — in his pocket.
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