Chickasha, Okla. and Silver Spring, Md.

Days after the Newtown school shooting, multiple shooting incidents occurred at elementary schools. These incidents, however, did not involve actual guns.

A first grader at Roscoe Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md. was suspended for one day after making gun gestures and pretending to shoot another student.

“I went into my desk and then I got scissors and then I just pretended it was a gun,” the 6-year-old told CBS Baltimore.

A similar event occurred in Chickasha, Okla., where 5-year-old Jared Moomaw pretended his hand was a gun and received the same punishment.

The parents of both boys said they were upset with the way administration dealt with the incident.

“They are saying he threatened to shoot a student,” said the Md. 6-year-old’s father Rodney Lynch Sr. “He was just playing.”

San Antonio, Tex.

Several organizations are criticizing the San Antonio Northside School District for invading student privacy by forcing them to wear tracking devices during the school day.

District spokesperson Pascual Gonzalez said that Northside is using the technology to locate students in the school building throughout the day, according to the New York Daily News.

Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Rutherford Institution rallied behind sophomore Andrea Hernandez who was suspended because she refused to wear the device.

“We don’t want to see this kind of intrusive surveillance infrastructure gain inroads into our culture,” said Jay Stanley, ACLU senior policy analyst. “We should not be teaching our children to accept such an intrusive surveillance technology.”

Queens, N.Y.

In August, a Catholic preparatory school in Queens, N.Y. laid off a teacher named Mark Krolikowski who had taught at St. Francis Preparatory School for 32 years. Krolikowski claims that the school discriminated against him because he came out as transgender.

Krolikowski has shoulder-length brown hair and a French manicure and wears earrings. A former student Cristina Guarino said that Krolikowski had a “feminine edge” and that the class he taught, Human Sexuality and Love, was one of her favorites throughout high school.

Guarino started an online petition urging the school to apologize to Krolikowski for the alleged discrimination. It now has over 3,000 signatures.

Principal Leonard Conway has refused to comment, according to CNN.

Sources: CBS Baltimore, CNN, New York Daily News