A 13-year-old was excluded from school and accused of ‘assault’ after she threw a HARIBO at a teacher during a charity fun day to lob sponges at them, her mum says.
Sue Freeman, 52, says Katie, 13, was accused of assaulting an adult when she chucked the gummy bear at her deputy head.
Students had been allowed to throw wet sponges at teachers to raise cash for Children in Need on November 16.
But year 9 Katie threw a single Haribo gummy bear at the deputy head.
Sue said he wasn’t injured but staff didn’t see the funny side, putting her 13-year-old daughter into isolation before excluding her and kicking her off a school ski trip.
Mum-of-two Sue of nearby Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire, said: “I’m so angry. I want people to know how petty our education system has got.”
The principal of Market Bosworth School wrote to Katie’s parents saying was being excluded for “assaulting an adult”, which will be kept on her permanent record.
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