[jeffInMadison]

No common sense is saying:

"Hey Timmy don't forget we can't have guns in school, even toy ones. Now put that in your pocket and don't bring it to school again. OK?"

What purpose does making a big ass deal over a piece of plastic serve? Is this some kind of deterrent? "Wow you hear Jimmy got suspended over a toy gun? I 'll stick to swords and axes thank you very much." These kids are 9 and they are stupid because they are 9 they don't always do the right thing, so you point out the right thing and they go "Oh OK." and move on with life.

Obviously if a real weapon comes to school make a shit storm about it so the kids understand but jeez let kids play with toys.

Making sure high school kids don't bring air soft guns to school with zero tolerance might make sense but plastic toys and kids should be a-ok anywhere. Christ they sell them in gum ball machines especially for kids.

One last thing from me...

The school my kid goes to has to follow these bullshit zero tolerance rules from the district but there isn't ONE district rule that calls parents out on kids who do no homework. Why isn't there a zero tolerance rule on not making sure kids do homework?

Suspend the kid who didn't do his fraction homework and is forcing the teacher to take time away from all the students re-explaining the shit he would have figured out with his parents last night if he did the homework.

Why Not? because you are just creating more problems for the students and the teachers because the kids missing more schoolwork and homework. But somehow creating this new asprin/toy gun problem and kicking kids out of school is solving THAT problem. Sure that makes sense...