Sigh. In a story that sounds all too familiar these days, a 7-year-old boy was suspended from school after pretending his pencil was a gun.

Christopher Marshall, a second grader, was attempting to imitate a Marine when he "shot" his friend pretending to be a bad guy. Both of the boys stopped their game when the teacher said something to them, but both wound up being suspended for their actions.

Bethanne Bradshaw, a spokesperson for Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Virginia where the boys attend, says, "It's an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence into the classroom, even if it's violent play."

And I get that. I really do.

If you already think the pressure on students to take standardized tests in school is overwhelming, wait until you hear this unbelievable story. Joey Furlong, a fourth grader in New York, was lying in a hospital, being screened for possible brain surgery, when in walked a teacher who asked him to take a state test.

Seriously. According to CBS 6, the boy, who has epilepsy, was hooked up to an IV, an EEG, and other medical devices. He was undergoing testing to see if surgeons might be able to stop his seizures with surgery. Then, out of nowhere, a woman from the public school system walked in and said she was there to give him the Foruth Grade State test.

His parents, understandably, were shocked.

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Here's the progression of pretty much every Take Your Child to Work Day:

1. Wake up brimming with excitement to see the magical things you or your spouse does.

2. Watch the magic happen for like 10 minutes, when they realize your job is boring as shit and they vow to NEVER grow up -- and if they must, they will do something exciting like race cars or be famous. (*If you're already famous, they'll think your job sucks too and vow to be something totally amazing like the check-out person at the grocery store who gets to swipe things over the cool scanner.)

3. Spin in your office chair for 30-60 minutes because that's awesome and clearly the real magic of your job. They will then question why you don't spend more time spinning and make a mental note that you'd probably do better in your job if you spun more.

Sigh. I know all schools have a set of rules that have to be enforced and are expected to be followed -- but after hearing about a kindergartner who was put in detention all because her parents dropped her off late at school, I seriously want to scream.

When 6-year-old Brooke Loeffler arrived her school, Olympia Elementary in San Antonio, late for a third time, she was punished by being sent to detention -- something the school district insists her parents signed off on.

The assignment was simple: "Write one sentence about a family member and draw a picture about it." Now I'm sure this child's family has many interests and fantastic talents, but the kid zoned in on one of his mother's particular passions -- her wine drinking.

"My mom like's (sic) drinking wine," he wrote. The accompanying drawing shows a woman sitting at a table looking happy as can be in front of a glass of wine that's about half the size of her body. Busted, mom!

When Matthew Bent realized that his son Shiloh's school district wasn't going to take care of a bad bullying situation, he decided to take matters into his own hands.

It's not as ominous as it sounds.

Bent wanted to show the district -- and the world -- that he had his son's back, so he shared a photo on Facebook with this amazing anti-bullying message:

Have you heard about the kindergartner who is being banned from her class because she can't get a chicken pox vaccine? Yep, 5-year-old FrankieElizabeth Staiti was kicked out of her Staten Island elementary school because she hasn't been been vaccinated against it -- and the department of education refuses to allow her to return until she has.

But let me repeat -- FrankieElizabeth can't get the chicken pox vaccine, because there's a chance that doing so could be detrimental to the health of her newborn baby sister.

You see, the doctor is actually refusing to vaccinate FrankieElizabeth, because the baby could have a possibly fatal allergic reaction if she comes into contact with her sister after she's had the vaccine.