Iowa Student Gives Rat Poison to 7 Classmates
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An elementary school student in Davenport, Iowa, gave rat poison to seven classmates, but a district official says no one was sickened.
District spokeswoman Laura Bozarth says second- and third-graders at Monroe Elementary School ingested a small amount of pellets before school Tuesday. One student told a school employee.
Bozarth says some parents took their children to doctors but none showed any symptoms and most returned to school Wednesday. She says the state poison control center says a child would have to ingest a whole box of the blood-thinning poison involved to become ill.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Bozarth says it's unclear why the student brought the rat poison to school. She says police were called, but she declined to comment on the student's status.