School Accuses 5-Year-Old Of Making Terrorist Threats (Photos)

A 5-year-old boy from Modesto, California, was suspended by his school after it accused him of making terrorist threats. Jackson Riley was suspended after he told a teacher that he wouldn’t take his backpack off because there was a bomb in it that would explode if he took the bag off. “They looked in his backpack,” the boy’s father told KTXL. “He’s 5 years old. Obviously there’s no bomb in my kid’s backpack.

They called me at work and said ‘There’s been an incident in school.’ They told me everything that my son said, and they said ‘you need to come pick your son up,’ and this was going to be a one-day suspension.” Great Valley Charter School initially sent Jackson’s parents a letter saying he was suspended for trying to “threaten, intimidate or harass others.” It later changed the letter, saying that he made terrorist threats. The letter cited a school code, though that particular code only applied to students in grades four through 12.

“He said he couldn’t take his backpack off because it would explode, meaning he doesn’t want anybody to get hurt,” the boy’s mother said. “Granted, it’s all in the world of pretend play and we’re talking about an imaginary bomb. But where was the threat? We still haven’t received a clear answer to that.” The school later issued a statement to KTXL about the controversy. “Great Valley Academy takes students safety and discipline very seriously,” the statement read.

“However, we may not disclose confidential student information or discuss the specifics of any GVA student.” The parents said they hoped the school would remove the suspension from their son’s record. “Where is this all going to end?” one Mad World News reader commented on the site’s Facebook page in response to the story. “This poor little 5 year old child, seems like the little kids are the ones the progressives find easiest to pick on.

The loons keep cropping up everywhere!! Leave our language and our history alone, we’ve managed nicely for over 200 years!!” “An imagination, at 5 is totally normal,” commented another.

“Their was no bomb,in his pack, he should be supervised on TV. and movies taken to. And talked to by his parents, about consequence. My son because of super hero’s believed that he would not be hurt by a car in the street, after warning him of danger told me he would stop it with his hand. Imagination!” “That teacher was nothing less than an idiot, maybe even a fool, for escalating a harmless joke into a terrorist threat,” added another reader.

“I’d be very angry if a teacher had treated one of my sons like this when they were in kindergarten or elementary school. FOOLS AND INSANE running public schools now.” Sources: KTXL, Mad World News/Facebook / Featured Image: MaxPixel / Embedded Images: KTXL