A 7-year-old boy Baltimore boy was suspended from school after his teacher complained that the boy chewed a breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun, the boy's father says.

In a note that was sent to parents Friday, Park Elementary School officials told parents only that "a student used food to make an inappropriate gesture," WBFF-TV of Baltimore reported.

The boy, Josh Welch, a second-grader, told the station he was actually trying to shape a mountain, "but it didn't look like a mountain really, and it turned out to be a gun, kinda."

Josh's father, B.J. Welch, called Josh's two-day suspension "insanity."

"With all the potential issues that could be dealt with at school — real threats, bullies, whatever — the real issue is, it's a pastry," he told WBFF. "You know?"

Educators have been extra sensitive to representations of weapons in the wake of the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 children and six educators were killed.

In January, a 5-year-old girl was suspended for making a "terroristic threat" at a kindergarten in the Mount Carmel Area, Pa., School District for saying she was going to shoot classmates and herself with her pink "Hello Kitty" bubble gun.

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"This is a good-natured little girl," said Robin Ficker, an attorney for the girl, who hasn't been identified because of privacy laws. "And this shows how hysterical people who work at schools have become since Sandy Hook."

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