5-year-old Emma was suspended from her Brighton, Colorado kindergarten after she brought a $5 clear plastic bubble gun to school. Clear. Plastic. Bubble-gun. You can literally see through the toy. What’s inside? Batteries, lights, bubble liquid, but no bullets or firing pin to be found.
This utter insanity is all thanks to a zero tolerance policy that uses zero common sense. The little girl’s mother couldn’t believe what she was hearing when she got a call asking her to pick up Emma. “Could we have a warning? It blows bubbles,” she asked the school. Their reply was as dry and empty as you would expect, “This suspension is consistent with our district policy as well ass how Southeast has handled similar situations… where students have brought items such as Nerf guns to school and also received one-day suspensions.”