A 10 year old Ohio boy was suspended for 3 days after he pointed a "level 2 lookalike firearm" at another student during class pretending to shoot.

The term "level 2 lookalike firearm" was cited in the suspension letter sent home to his parents. According to the Columbus Dispatch, Nathan Entingh, a fifth-grader at Devonshire Alternative Elementary School said “I was just playing around” and that “people play around like this a lot at my school.”

Nathan says that many other kids have been caught playing in the same fashion and were not suspended.



The boy’s father, Paul Entingh, said no one felt threatened, and it’s the adults who are acting childish in their response to a typical 10-year-old’s misstep.

“He said he was playing,” Paul Entingh said. “It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger.”

The other student didn't even see the gesture, only the reporting teacher did.

Paul Entingh says that his son has never been in trouble before. But according to Devonshire Principal Patricia Price, the students have been warned about playing pretend guns and they do have a zero tolerance policy.