WARNER ROBINS, Ga. – It’s a new school year and the zero tolerance policies are back in full force.

Call Ramsey McDonald their first victim.

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Ramsey decided to bring his iPad and “some toys” to school to show his friends at Miller Elementary School. His father reportedly said “OK” and Ramsey was on his way.

WMAZ reports what happened next:

McDonald learned it wasn’t OK when he received a call from the school Tuesday.

“They told me my son brought a weapon to school and they asked me if I was aware,” McDonald said Wednesday. “I asked them what it was and they said it was a plastic Nerf gun.”

McDonald said had he known his child was planning to take the blue, orange and green plastic toy to class, he would’ve told the child not to take it.

The child was initially given three days suspension, which was reduced to three days in-school suspension, McDonald said.

“He told me he didn’t know they would think it was a weapon or he wouldn’t have brought it to school,” Ramsey’s father tells the news station.

After the father exposed the incident, school officials couldn’t keep their story straight.

“We never viewed that as a weapon,” Houston County Schools superintendent Mark Scott insisted to WMAZ.

The father has asked for a face-to-face meeting, wanting to know why his son was punished at all.

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“He said he was never notified in writing what his son was suspended for, but that a school official told him verbally it was for bringing ‘something that looked like a weapon,'” the news station reports.

This is likely the first of many stories of innocent children and parents falling victim to zero tolerance policies this school year.