The Ingram-Pye third-grader is awaiting a hearing to determine whether he should be expelled from school. School systems have zero tolerance policies in place when it comes to dangerous weapons at school, and officials have to take even toy guns into account.
"You have to assume they are real," Bibb County school Superintendent Sharon Patterson said.
She said the school system is doing its part to be proactive, but parents need to be more aware and take more responsibility for what their children bring onto school property.
Ingram-Pye Elementary School.
"I think it's a snowball effect," Hasan said, referring to several recent incidents in Bibb, Jones and Dublin schools in which students or young adults carried real and toy guns onto campus.
Earlier this week, an 18-year-old was arrested and charged for having a toy gun and knife on a Bibb school property.
In Dublin, an eighth-grader was suspended for bringing a loaded handgun to Dublin Middle School.
Also this month, four Jones County High School students were suspended for bringing weapons to school. Three students were questioned for having pocketknives, and a hunting rifle and bow and arrow were found in another student's truck.
At Howard High School in Bibb County, two girls were charged with having a loaded handgun at school.
"We need to make parents more aware to look into their kids' book bag before they go to school," Hasan said.
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