9-Year-Old Danielle Christenson Suspended for Rocks

Sparkly rock lover 9-year-old Danielle Christenson breaks rocks apart with a hammer to see what they look like inside.

She was suspended from Rossman Elementary School in Hartford when she wanted to share her discoveries with her friends.

School officials called police when they learned that Danielle brought a hammer, a screwdriver, and rocks to school in her backpack. They suspended Danielle for THREE days for her offense.

Danielle's mom Christina thinks the school overreacted.

I think they went way overboard.

Christina is disturbed that the school principal didn't judge an innocent mistake on a case by case basis.

Principal Pam Pyzyk says she did evaluate Danielle's specific case with a threat assessment team.

Pyzyk says, "It's sad to say but there have been things that have occurred in schools. And you have to take every threat and every situation very seriously."

"What if the situation arose where someone brought something and some other child came across it. There's just all kinds of opportunities for serious situations to develop."

I think it's extreme for the school's threat assessment team to consider the tools to be worthy of a three-day suspension. Calling police over the matter is ridiculous.

What did Pyzyk think the police were going to do? The police should have issued her a citation for dragging them to the school on an utterly needless call.



Yes, Danielle had rocks in her backpack.

Yes, members of the Rossman Elementary threat assessment team have rocks in their heads.

The police?

Unreal.