A six-year-old boy was suspended from a US Catholic school after he pretended to shoot another student with an imaginary bow and arrow.
The principal of Our Lady of Lourdes School in Cincinnati wrote in a letter that he had “no tolerance for any real, pretend, or imitated violence”.
The boy’s parents said their son was just imitating a “power ranger” in the playground during a recess.
Matthew Miele, the boy’s father, said the three day suspension is such a severe punishment that it is difficult to make this a proper “teachable moment” for his son.