NBC NEWS -- A 7-year-old Maryland boy was expected back in class today after being suspended over a breakfast pastry.
The student at Park Elementary School in Glen Burnie, Md., called his dad to pick him up because school officials said he chewed a strawberry breakfast pastry into a gun shape and then pointed it at another child and said, "Bang, bang."
The boy's dad, B.J. Welch, told the Washington Post, that it was harmless and just a boy doing what kids do. He said his son meant to chew the pastry into a mountain shape but it turned out to look more like a gun.
The boy was punished Friday with one day of suspension and one day of in-school suspension.
The school sent home a letter to parents saying, "During breakfast this morning, one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class. While no physical threats were made and no one was harmed, the student had to be removed from the classroom."
Parents should talk to their children if they're troubled by the incident, the school said, and the school counselor will be available for any student who needs to talk.
