5-YEAR-OLD GIRL SUSPENDED FOR PLASTIC BUBBLE GUN

In yet another case of overreaction, a Colorado elementary school suspended a 5-year-old girl for bringing a bubble gun to school on Monday. The unidentified kindergartner put the plastic bubble-maker in her backpack when she left for Southeast Elementary School in Brighton. The girl’s mother, Emma, was unaware her daughter packed the plastic device, but she found out later that day when the school called and told Emma to pick up her daughter. “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,” Emma said. “Could we have a warning? It blows bubbles.” The school said that the suspension was “consistent with our district policy.”
* If you’re looking for logic in a “Zero Tolerance” policy, I hate to burst your bubble.
* Nice job, traumatizing the kid when there’s only two weeks of school left.
* Anyway, “warnings” and “second chances” are only for teachers who screw up.
* She could have shot a bubble into someone’s eye, and that would really sting.
* Could be worse. In some countries, this gets you 50 lashes.
* In my day, you couldn’t have a bubble gun unless you brought enough bubble gun for everybody.
* It starts with a bubble gun, and before you know it these kids escalate into Nerf darts.
* This is right up there with the Pop-Tart gun.
* Nice move by society. Now we’ve got another life-long rebel on our hands.
* I see it as an overreaction, but if I were the principal of a school, I’d probably err on this side too.
* What if the bubbles had Sarin gas in them?
* Hey, don’t tell me I can’t play the fear game.