Arundel school officials say boy wasn't suspended solely for 'pastry gun' incident

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13. what it boils down to is whether the school fully informed the parents of their son's misbehavior

If the school is making up this claim about a pattern of disruptive behavior like the student yelling "GUN!", the student's record should be cleaned.

This Balt Sun article from 3/4/13 reports:

Welch said an assistant principal at Park Elementary School told him that his son pointed the pastry at a classmate — though the child maintains he pointed it at the ceiling.

"In my eyes, it's irrelevant; I don't care who he pointed it at," Welch said. "It was harmless. It was a Danish."

And from this article in OP:

B.J. Welch said he was led to believe his son's two-day suspension was triggered by heightened concerns officials had about guns, and said many of the school system's assertions about his son's behavior and punishments had not been conveyed to him until Tuesday.

This WBAL article reports:

The boy told CNN what happened when he unwrapped his pastry at school last week.

"I showed him what the pastry looked like. It was blue and it was a rectangle -- it was a cherry one -- and this one was about five quarters long, and when I was done, it turned out to be a gun -- yeah," the boy said.

Josh's father, B.J. Welch, said the school called him and said his son was suspended for shaping his pastry into a gun and saying, "bang bang."

Josh has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to his father, who is furious about the two-day suspension.