We have seen this picture many times before.
Zero tolerance insanity taking political correctness out on school children:
The latest is from Brighton, Colorado, Kindergartner suspended for bringing bubble gun to class:
A 5 year-old girl was suspended from kindergarten on Monday for bringing a gun to Southeast Elementary School.It sounds alarming, but the weapon was a bubble gun, a popular plastic toy sold at stores across Colorado.The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from the school telling her she needed to pick up her daughter and take her home.“If they had contacted me and said can you make sure this doesn’t happen again, we just want you to be aware, I think that would have been a more appropriate way to handle the situation. Could we have a warning? It blows bubbles,” she said.Emma said she never would have knowingly let her daughter bring the toy to school. She said her daughter put it in her backpack without telling her. But the school is sticking to its guns, calling the toy a safety concern and a classroom distraction.
The school district’s statement about the suspension, printed in the link above, is quite something. Not only are they not apologetic, they are proud of suspending the little girl and look forward to doing it to other students:
“While we hear and understand the parents of this student being concerned about this discipline in light of the student’s age and type of item, this suspension is consistent with our district policy as well as how Southeast has handled similar situations throughout this school year. This has involved similar situations where students have brought items such as Nerf guns to school and also received one-day suspensions. The bringing of weapons, real or facsimile, to our schools by students can not only create a potential safety concern but also cause a distraction for our students in the learning process. Our schools, particularly Southeast because of past instances with students bringing fake weapons to school, make a point of asking parents to be partners in making sure students are not bringing these items to school. This includes asking parents to check backpacks.”
The District, however, may not be on firm ground:
However, the district policy does not necessarily support suspension in a case like this.According to the District’s policy for weapons in school, discretionary discipline may be used if a student displays “a firearm facsimile that could reasonably be mistaken for an actual firearm.”“It’s absurd to send a 5-year-old home for a bubble-maker,” said Nathan Woodliff, the executive director of the ACLU of Colorado. “This is a silly example of a very real problem. Zero-tolerance policies often mean zero common sense.”
Sounds to me like some of the staff in the school district should be suspended, not the little girl.
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