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As someone who has worked in Child Care for 5 years I am absolutely on Keith's side in the gun thing. If the school had a zero tolerance policy on guns the kid knew it.
When the 3 & 4yr olds I used to look after knew there were no guns at child care & when they got caught even pretending to shoot each other with their hands they would try to lie about it. "No, its a laser" "No its a space gun". There would get told "No, no guns at child care", I would make them hand over their imaginary guns and pretend to throw them in the bin.
I guess someone is going to write an article about how unfair it is of me to take away the children's pretend guns when they were being creative and using their imaginations. How damaging is that to their development!
No, the rule is no guns. That means no guns. It means no toy guns, no real guns, no imaginary guns, no picking up sticks and going bang bang at the other children. No guns full stop.
I am suprised that he got called into the principal's office but that makes me wonder how many times the teacher had told this boy off for the same thing. Maybe this child had done it before?
You are also all forgetting that the child got NO punishment. He "nearly" got suspended. That means the principal could have suspended him but instead decided just to tell him not to bring guns to school.
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