Atlantic City educators suspended an 11-year-old special education student after a Nerf bullet with a toothpick stuck in it was deemed a weapon by the school, reports say.
The child's mother told CBS the toy fell out of her son's pocket at Uptown Complex School last week and nearly got him kicked out.
"It sound completely ludicrous to me that my son would be expelled for a Nerf bullet," the student's mother Michelle Moody told the publication.
The report says the school's policy defines a weapon as "anything readily capable of lethal use or inflicting serious bodily injury."
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