4-Year-Old Boy Suspended from Daycare for Having Tiny .22 Shellcase

Kristy Jackson holds the shell casing that her 4-year-old son Hunter took to preschool, leading to his 7-day suspension. (Image source: YouTube screen cap)

It seems Hunter Crowe, every bit a 4-year-old American boy, had been causing trouble — at preschool.

For the adults at A Place 2 Grow Child Care and Learning Center in Troy, Illinois, the main sticking point is that Hunter had been continuing to “make guns out of other toys,” according to a letter from the preschool to his father and his mother Kristy Jackson.

In fact, the letter says, Hunter had been told that “guns, hunting, etc., are not subjects that are to be discussed at school.” And despite “multiple attempts to redirect” his “behaviors” toward “other activities,” Hunter kept up his gun play.

The deed that sealed the 4-year-old’s fate, however, seemed a lot more serious — at first.

On Tuesday afternoon, Jackson arrived at A Place 2 Grow to pick up Hunter, but she told KTVI-TV she instead “was met with a stone-faced teacher who said that my son had a shotgun bullet. I was horrified thinking, ‘Where could he have gotten this?’ ”

Jackson explained on Facebook that when she was “escorted to the office for a sit down,” she “was handed a tiny .22 empty brass casing. Not a ‘shotgun bullet.’ He found it on the ground, expelled from a .22 rifle over the weekend, while Hunter was target practicing with his police officer grandpa. He was so excited, and snuck it to school to show his friends. We had no idea about it.”

Hunter’s grandpa, in fact, was hard at work teaching his grandson about hunting and responsible gun use, KTVI said.

But preschool officials had made up their minds that in Hunter’s case, “other actions” were needed in order to “correct these behaviors,” the letter added.

For starters, a 7-day suspension from the preschool.

“He’s cried about it and he doesn’t understand why his school hates him,” Jackson told KTVI of Hunter’s reaction.

That’s not all.

The letter indicates that after his suspension, if Hunter’s “issues continue to be present or other issues arise,” he will be “expelled from A Place 2 Grow Child Care and Learning Center effective immediately.”

Also, the school’s vice president emailed Jackson saying he was notifying the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, KTVI reported, adding that DCFS needs to be notified since the preschool is licensed by the agency.

Jackson told KTVI the preschool’s reaction is “paranoia” and the she isn’t sure if he’ll be going back.

“It’s something that’s become quite an epidemic where guns are automatically assumed that they’re bad … and I’m not sure how a 7-day suspension teaches my son anything about tolerance or anything about why he was wrong,” she said to the station. “It just means his school doesn’t want him there because of things he enjoys.”
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One should only expect this level of anit-gun ignorance and stupidity in the UK.

 

Looks to be a wonderful young boy. Hopefully he will grow up fishing, hunting, and shoving his "participation trophy" into the ear of the school that mandated it be given out.

 

Sounds like granpa ought to pick up the empty shells once he is done shooting his weapon.

 

How is this a suspendable offense?

What the **** is wrong with everyone? I am convinced the dismantling of the 2nd amendment is the reason the public at large is so ****ing stupid when it comes to firearms.

A shell casing is only useful for plinking, it's not dangerous, and cannot possibly be considered a weapon of any description.

Pre-school is a little young for discussing weapons, but sheltering our children from life and the realities of life is unhelpful, and the "young comment" above is simply MY preference. I'll teach my daughter to fish and shoot.

 

It is because it is a private school so they can make up the rules as they deem necessary.

 

Jeez, that's the sad part right there.

Sad because of the apparent context of a child thinking somebody hates them.

But also sad because of the strikingly true underlying issue here: Liberal bigotry and hate against guns and anybody who prefers them.

By all factors of a special interest label, gun owners/enthusiasts meet the criteria for a "protected class".

Gun ownership or "gun culture" includes practices, ideals, values, and a Constitutional right shared across large sums of people and distances, and these people practices ideals values and rights are under constant relentless attack from hateful bigoted cretins that seek to oppress them.

By all rights, gun owners should be a protected class meaning this family should be able to sue this school and this teacher personally for the bigoted hateful crimes they have committed.

 

What d'you say George?



How about it Mr. Lee?

 

Many ranges forbid that.

 

Yes and maybe in future all parents should carefully choose which school to entrust their children to..

 

This school went overboard, waaaaaaay overboard. The spent casing is not a loaded gun, it's not an unloaded gun, it's not even a bullet, it a useless piece of metal that cannot cause any harm.

 

Doesn't the NRA have a pre-school this mass murderer can go to?
4 yr olds have 2nd amendment rights, too!!

 

why is that?

 

Why? An empty casing is harmless.

 

This is true. Which is why you'd hope to see a massive drop in enrollment as people seek a less politically charged environment for their preschoolers.

 

So, a private school can ban LGBT's from their property?

 

Sure it can. But punishment for the "offense" should be along the lines of bringing a pebble to school.

 

What is wrong with a shell casing? Is it going to scrape someone to death? Wtf is up with these snowflake schools and parents?

 

Who cares? The parents can send him to another school. I thought righties are for school choice and free enterprise. This non-story has both...the parent's school choice and the school's private business right to decide their policy...end of non-story.

 

Yes, as long as they don't receive federal or state funding.

 

The answer is to find another school where they don't care if you bring in a shell casing or not.

 

Sure, just like private bakeries and wedding reception halls can - NOT! Libs have different rules and standards when it comes to what they favor and what they don't.

 

That wasn't my question. Did you mean to respond to someone else?

 

This is BS. Kids like what they're exposed to. He's exposed to outdoors and guns. Who cares if he plays and makes lego guns or whatever. In all reality this kid will grow up with a mature and practical approach to weapons and given the opportunity, would do nothing.

The moron you'd have to worry about shooting up a school would be Hunter's classmate, the tracher's pet that obeys all rules and is a perfect little angel. They'll get slighted as a teenager and shoot up their classmates.

I love how backwards society is. Crap like this, and the damn war on drugs. It's funny in a really annoying way.

 

I got kicked out or preschool for eating a brownie.


It sounds like they are better off picking a school that can handle young boys. The shitty part is the school probably billed the parents for the week of suspension.

 

Because they want to collect it themselves.