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Childhood Criminalized: Suspended in Elementary School

Remember the poptart gun? The Nerf gun? The Lego gun? The pointed finger gun? In another time, these typical boy toys would have gotten as little notice as the old fashioned cap gun but in a world where the list of childhood offenses also includes possession of a novelty pen or a Hello Kitty bubble gun, it comes as little surprise that a Lord of the Rings “magic ring” got nine-year-old Aiden Steward suspended from his elementary school in Kermit, Texas.

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