A sixth-grader was suspended from his Chicago elementary school after he voluntarily turned in a broken toy gun during a random “pat down” Jan. 31.
Fredrick Funston Elementary School instituted a new policy at the beginning of the school year where students are randomly selected to be separated from their bags and manually patted down before passing through metal detectors. One of the students, an 11-year-old boy, was suspended after it was discovered he had a broken toy gun in his coat pocket, Rutherford reports.
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