A 13-year-old girl was suspended from school after she was accused of threatening her teacher. Her family says it’s a misunderstanding under a zero tolerance policy.
Bleyl Middle School student Taylor Trostle and her parents say it’s a classroom game that got her kicked out of school, and now has her labeled as a “terrorist.”
“I was shocked because it just seems ludicrous and appalling,” Bleyl Middle School student Taylor Trostle’s mother, Kristin Trostle, said.
When Kristin Trostle and her fiancee got a phone call from the principal’s office at her daughter’s school, they knew something was wrong. But the story they got blew them away.
“I mean, terroristic threat, to me that’s a serious statement,” Kristin Trostle said. “That’s one of the most serious things you could say to somebody.”
Taylor was wearing an NYPD shirt at school. She says in the last moments of math class, she and some friends were pretending to be police officers.
“I was shooting the markers at the front of the board,” Taylor Trostle said. “It was just like this and I was like ‘pow pow’ and then she just turned around.”
Taylor was sent to the principal’s office and immediately suspended for three days. Her write up says the finger gun was pointed in the teacher’s direction.
