There ought to be a law
Actually, no, there shouldn’t. Adults should be smart enough to not do that kind of stupid crap without there being a law. But, since they’re not, there will be a law:
A bill backed by the National Rifle Association that lawmakers said would add “common sense” to zero-tolerance policies for guns in public schools sailed through a House education panel on Wednesday.
The measure (PCB KTS 14-02) by House Judiciary Chairman Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, would prevent children from being disciplined for simulating a gun while playing or wearing clothes that depict firearms.
Baxley called the measure “the pop-tart bill” — a reference to a widely reported news story about a Maryland 7-year-old who was suspended from school last year for chewing his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun.
February 6th, 2014 at 8:11 pm
For what the teacher thought looked like a gun. It looked like Idaho to me. Idaho? No, she da ho. (Sorry.)
February 6th, 2014 at 9:39 pm
Be assured that HCI will blame Big Cereal’s lobbyists for this. An attitude of total safety was cutting into breakfast-pastry sales. The will of the people will be subjugated by their jelly-filled machinations.
February 7th, 2014 at 12:12 am
Law needs teeth.
Remove any protection from lawsuits for any teacher that has a snit fit over a drawing.
February 7th, 2014 at 1:49 pm
Common sense is NOT a common commodity, especially in the vicinity of ‘professional educators’.
MC
February 8th, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Unfortunately, you can’t legislate away the stupid.
If a pop tart is no longer a cause for discipline, the teachers have plenty of other ways of trying to force little Johnny into their statist mold.
“Of course Johnny was not disciplined for pretending to have a gun. That is illegal. He was disciplined for threatening other children with his pretend gun.”