5-year-old girl finds a stick on the school playground, gets suspended for pretending it’s a gun

Things in this country have gotten completely out of control! Now children can’t play pretend without some adult freaking out and reading WAY too much into nothing.

Check out this story via The Blaze:

Caitlin Miller, who is 5 years old, was playing a game of “King and Queen” with two of her classmates Friday at J.W. McLaughlin Elementary School in Raeford, North Carolina. The little girl was pretending to be a guard trying to keep out intruders from entering the kingdom where the king and queen were when she spotted a stick in the shape of a gun, picked it up, and imitated firing the “weapon,” WTVD-TV reported.

The girl’s mother, Brandy Miller, later received a call from the school principal, saying her daughter had posed a “threat” to other students.

A threat?!? Like the little boy I just told y’all about who brought an empty bullet casing to school and was suspended for seven days. That kind of threat?!?!

Thanks to the “zero tolerance” policy at Caitlin’s school, she was suspended for an entire day… for playing with a stick.

The school released a statement:

Hoke County Schools will not tolerate assaults, threats or harassment from any student. Any student engaging in such behavior will be removed from the classroom or school environment for as long as is necessary to provide a safe and orderly environment for learning.

The statement actually said Caitlin got in trouble for “turning a stick into a gun and threatening to shoot and kill other students.”

I could not have been as gracious as this mother who actually understands the strict policy. She just wished the school would have explained what was happening to her daughter as she was dragged away from the playground to the principal’s office. She would also like them to assure her that it’s okay to have an imagination when you’re five!

Um, yeah! This overreaction is mystifying.

Click CONTINUE to see the sweet little girl tell her story: