Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, June 17 (UPI) -- An 8-year-old special needs student has been expelled from a school in Manhattan for threatening other students with a paper gun. Asher Palmer was kicked out of the Lang School for rolling up a piece of paper and treating it as a gun after a discussion about weapons with his dad, who served in the military during the Kuwait war. Advertisement In an email to staff members, Principal Micaela Bracamonte allegedly wrote that the first-year student "had a model for physically aggressive behavior in his immediate family." Palmer's mother, Melina Spadone, told the New York Post she found that remark "offensive and inappropriate." According to the school, Palmer threatened to kill a girl in a separate incident "Asher is exactly the type of student Lang [School] is supposed to be serving. Why they did this doesn't make sense," Spadone said. The school has recommended that Palmer be home-schooled next year, even though his parents have already paid almost $120,000 in tuition. Read More Beaver attack sends New York man to the hospital with deep puncture wounds Your Daily Horoscope Woman in surgery to have ovaries removed found to be pregnant GM recalls another 3.4 million vehicles over ignition problem Steve Martin refutes 'Father of the Bride III' report
