Child suspended for brandishing chicken

Child suspended for brandishing chicken


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An 8-year-old boy was suspended from school for three days after pointing a breaded chicken finger at a teacher and saying “Pow, pow, pow.” The boy, who apparently violated the Jonesboro


School District’s zero-tolerance policy against weapons, was suspended last week. Kelli Kissinger, mother of first-grader Christopher, said: “It’s just a piece of chicken. How could you play


like it’s a gun?” In March 1998, four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others wounded when two youths opened fire on a schoolyard at Jonesboro’s Westside Middle School. MORE TO


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