Kindergartner Girl Suspended After Bringing ‘Dangerous’ Toy To Her School
By Dreamer
A kindergarten girl is in hot water for bringing a toy to school at Southeast Elementary in Brighton, Colorado. When she pulled it from her backpack for indoor recess, the teacher and administrators deemed it “dangerous,” losing their minds in the process. They couldn’t believe a child would bring such an item to class, but when you see it, you won’t believe they made such a big deal about it.
The mother of the 5-year-old girl, who has asked for her identity to be concealed for privacy reasons, said that she didn’t know her daughter’s toy could offend anyone. Considering that it was a bubble maker, it’s easy to see why she wouldn’t have found the toy frightening, dangerous, or offensive, but she was unaware her daughter took the toy to school.
However, that really shouldn’t matter. Even if she had known, it’s safe to say she wouldn’t have had any alarms go off, since it’s a clear plastic bubble generator — clear, meaning the teachers and school officials could see the bubble fluid in the toy and the batteries required to use it.
Bubble Gun
“I apologized right away and said that I am so sorry she did that,” the girl’s mother explained. “I appreciate that they’re trying to keep our kids safe, I really do. But there needs to be some common sense. It blows bubbles.”
The school was alarmed by the “dangerous” toy because it was dubbed the “bubble gun.” They are apparently too ridiculous to realize it only shoots bubbles and took the zero tolerance weapons policy to the limit. During an indoor recess period, before the start of school, the 5-year-old removed the bubble gun from her backpack. Apparently alarmed by the sight of such a thing, the school almost immediately called her mother to pick her up, so she could start her suspension for bringing a “fake gun” to school.
“I asked, ‘Is it really necessary for me to come get her?’ And they said, ‘Yes, this is our zero tolerance policy, and somebody needs to come get her immediately,'” the little girl’s mother recalled. “It’s a shame because it’s the end of the school year, and it’s kind of ending on a bad note now. And she didn’t deserve that. She didn’t deserve a punishment like that.”
The mother also said that her daughter was so upset over her suspension that she asked to stay home from school to clean the house, rather than return to the classroom. Zero tolerance policies have come to mean zero common sense and zero thinking. The girl suspended was five-years-old and probably doesn’t understand that she “violated a weapons policy” at her elementary school. She saw a bubble maker, like any reasonable person would, not a weapon.
Common sense dictates that the toy was a toy, and it’s as clear as the plastic it’s made out of. The forks in the cafeteria of that school are more dangerous than that bubble maker, but apparently, people threw away all common sense in exchange for being politically correct. Now, they punish kids for having harmless toys. For a phrase that utilizes the word “correct,” it’s amazing how wrong it can be.
H/T [The Denver Channel]
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