A 12-year-old boy has been excluded for a taking a "toy gun" into McDonald's before class which has left his mother distraught. Mitchell Pollard has been booted out of Christ Church in Yardley Wood, a new school which opened in September, according to mother Pauline Pollard.
Pauline said Mitchell took a black and yellow toy gun to the fast food outlet and gave it to a friend who "shot a couple of pellets at two pupils". She says the school's punishment methods is "over the top" while the school insists that any decision to exclude a pupil is not made lightly.
The self-employed cleaner claimed her son was the victim of "unfair treatment" and likened the Church of England academy to an "army camp", reports Birmingham Live