Student suspended for chicken finger gun
Last Updated: Thursday, May 31, 2001 | 11:15 AM ET
CBC News
The mother of an eight-year-old boy is questioning the suspension of her son from the Ragged Island Consolidated School, near Lockeport.
Billy Barnes was sent home for a day after he pointed a breaded chicken finger at another child and said "bang."
His mother Rhonda says it was only a chicken finger, not a gun, and he didn't deserve to be suspended.
It was Billy's second suspension. Earlier this year he pointed his own finger at someone and said "bang."
The director of the Tri-County District School Board says he's reviewing the matter.
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