COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. – A new student discipline policy in Collingswood schools was canceled after it resulted in police investigations into name calling, shoving matches, and other typical student behavior.

Parents contend officials changed the district discipline policy to require nearly all types of offenses to be reported to law enforcement, and didn’t notify parents about the change. The result has been a flood of calls from school officials to police for everything from a third-grader who alleged brownies were “made out of burnt black people” to investigations into a zombie drawing and roughhousing in the lunch line, Philly.com. reports.

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Mayor Jim Maley told the news site that Collingswood school officials adopted the new reporting policy – which required administrators to call police for virtually all student discipline – after an incident in May in which they did not thoroughly report student misconduct to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.

As a result, Collingswood police investigated a total of 22 school related complaints in the last month of school on a variety of trivial issues, and interviewed students over alleged incidents reported by their classmates without prior permission from their parents, according to the news site.

“Parents did not file complaints in any of these cases. Police questioned students in 16 of them – and in all 16, these interviews happened before parents were contacted, according to narratives from the reports” cited by Philly.com. “In several cases, teachers had not witnessed the incidents in question but were merely responding to complaints from their students.”

The news site obtained the police reports on the school incidents and revealed the types of non-crimes police were forced to waste their time on.

One incident involved a 9-year-old third-grader at William P. Tatem Elementary School who was questioned by police after he joked that brownies are “made out of black people” at a classroom party June 16.

Ten days earlier, another Tatem student was detained for a drawing of a zombie holding a gun that he sent to a classmate, a week before that police launched an investigation into two students roughhousing at lunch, according to the news site.

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“Nobody notified me. I wasn’t there for him,” said the mother of one 7-year-old questioned by police. “I always tell him, ‘I will always be there for you, whether you’re right or wrong.’ I said I was going to be there for him, but I wasn’t.”

Other police calls from school officials centered on a shoving match at Thomas Sharp Elementary, a student holding a ukulele like a gun in music class at Zane North Elementary, as well as kindergartners at the same school who insulted each other with the words “fat” and “short.”

Collingswood High School police investigations involved students bumping into each other, threatening to beat each other up, theft from a locker.

Collingswood Police Chief Kevin Carey said school officials were calling the police for things “as minor as a simple name-calling incident that the school would typically handle internally,” Philly.com reports.

Angry and confused parents started an online petition to speak out against the increased police involvement, which district officials blamed on an alleged directive from the prosecutor’s office, the Courier-Post reports.

“I do not believe children should be policed in this way,” Samantha Martinez, a mother of two pursuing a graduate degree in social studies, said in an interview. “All that’s going to do is make children afraid of police, and that’s the last thing we want to do.”

“Why is Collingswood being targeted?” asked Megan Irwin, a mother and teacher. “What’s going on in our town?”

Carey, and school board president David Routzahn wrote a letter to parents about the policy change late last month that contends the prosecutor’s office insists school officials “are not authorized” to conduct investigations I schools, and “defines almost every issue as a ‘potentially criminal issue,’” according to the news site.

“It is unfathomable to us that the (prosecutor’s office) believes that having uniformed police officers responding to incidents of name-calling or a second-grade playground shove is appropriate for the children or taxpayers of Collingswood,” the board president wrote.

Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalill issued a statement Tuesday that she’s working with the mayor to resolve the ridiculous policy.

District officials have since reversed the student discipline policy, and scheduled a public forum for July 26 to discuss the issue with parents, Philly.com reports.