5th grade field trip takes detour to ‘gun show’ without permission

DORCHESTER COUNTY, SC (WCSC/CNN) — Parents in one South Carolina school district are upset after they say their kids were shown guns without their permission.

Belinda Guice, whose son is in the fifth grade at Williams Memorial Elementary School in Dorchester District 4, said she signed a permission slip for her son to go and tour the middle school to see what it would be like next school year.

After the tour of the middle school, and instead of going back to Williams Memorial Elementary, Guice said the students were taken to a business on 601 Highway 15 in St. George where they were shown guns.

St. George town officials say the business location had previously been a National Guard armory and then, after being sold, served as the town’s police station.

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