SUMTER, S.C. – Because of zero-tolerance policies, school administrators have officially hit freak-out stage.

Via WLTX-TV:

A kindergartner at Alice Drive Elementary in Sumter has been expelled from school for bringing a toy gun to class.

Naomi McKinney, who’s six-year-old, was expelled on January 7th.

The problem began when Naomi grabbed her brother’s toy gun to bring in for show and tell.

“I chose to bring it to school because I thought I could show my friends it because they might like seeing it,” Naomi explains.

Her dad, Hank, says he and her mother didn’t see what she choose to bring until getting a call from the school.

“The school needed me down there that my daughter was fixing to be expelled,” he says. “I got in the car and rushed down there and when I got in there the principal told me that she had a gun at school and she pulls it out and it is a little clear plastic gun.”

News19 asked the Sumter County School District for a picture or description of the gun but said they would not release that information because it is part of the child’s discipline record, which they do not disclose.

“You have to show some kind of judgment,” Hank McKinney says. “I know there is a lot going on with guns and schools and that is tragic but a six year old bringing a toy to school doesn’t know better.”

Instead of being in school, Naomi now is spending her time at her dad’s furniture store.