Miss one day of the Trib.....
and you miss a lot! I didn’t see yesterday’s report about an 8 year old who was expelled from his suburban school for inadvertently bringing a bullet to school with his crayons. So much hinges on his learning disabilities and his inability to know that he should have taken the bullet directly to his teacher and not shown it to his friends.
During a review by learning specialists four days after the Oct. 18 incident, the lawsuit alleges they focused solely on whether the boy's disability "prevented him from knowing right and wrong."

The lawsuit charges the district did not implement a special-education plan for the boy.

The boy moved into the district Oct. 2 from Chicago. Last year, he attended school in Naperville, where a case study evaluation found he suffered from long-term memory deficit and "is hesitant about approaching teachers concerning his feelings and needs," according to the suit.

Edwards said school officials should have taken this finding into consideration in assessing why the boy showed the bullet to his classmate.
I don’t know........I think if I reach into my purse at work this morning and find an unexpected bullet, my first reaction would be to show it to the closest person at hand. Just as a sort of, “son of a gun (pardon the pun), look what I found!,” kind of thing.

This is the part that I found sad and worrisome.....
The boy's mother had borrowed the crayons from a relative because she couldn't afford to purchase her own, Edwards said. The bullet was in the plastic container.
Couldn’t afford crayons? Relatives with stray bullets? That’s sad.