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UNREAL: Preschool Suspends Four-Year-Old For Bringing Shell Casing To School

Hank Berrien

A Troy, Illinois preschool suspended a four-year-old boy and called the Department of Children and Family Services to report his parents, all because the child brought a shell casing of a bullet to school.

According to the boy’s mother, Kristy Jackson, a teacher informed her that her son Hunter had brought a “shotgun bullet” to A Place 2 Grow preschool. Jackson wrote on Facebook:

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