a girl was expelled for using a utility knife to cut paper for a project.
A kindergartner in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was suspended in March 2010 for making a finger gun.
A second grader in Baltimore, Maryland, was suspended in March 2013 for biting a Pop-Tart into the shape of a mountain, which school officials mistook for a gun.

6-year-old Hunter Yelton in Colorado was suspended in 2013 for alleged repeated sexual harassment of a 6-year-old schoolmate, a charge the boy's family disputed. Following widespread negative media coverage and public disapproval, the school agreed to downgrade the suspension cause to "misconduct".