A mother and her 9-year-old son say school officials in North Carolina
won't let him take a My Little Pony bag to school. The boy and his
mother say he's getting shoved around because bullies think his pick of a favorite toy is for girls.
My Little Pony fan Grayson Bruce,says: "They're taking it a little too
far, with punching me, pushing me down, calling me horrible names, stuff
that really shouldn't happen." Grayson picked a Rainbow Dash bag out
this year, which he says has intensified the attacks against him.
Grayson's mother Noreen Bruce, says: "It's promoting friendship, there's
no bad words, there's no violence, it's hard to find that, even in
cartoons now." But Noreen says on Thursday the school asked him to leave
the bag at home
because it had become a distraction and was a "trigger for bullying." Noreenn
added: "Saying a lunchbox is a trigger for bullying, is like saying a
short skirt is a trigger for rape. It's flawed logic, it doesn't make
any sense."
Noreen wants punishment for the students involved. Buncombe County
Schools said in statement: "An initial step was taken to immediately
address a situation that had created a disruption in the classroom.
Buncombe County Schools takes bullying very seriously, and we will
continue to take steps to resolve this issue." So Grayson is using a
different bag to carry his lunch to school, but he and his mother say
they don't believe it's right to force him to leave the My Little Pony
bag at home.
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