School bans student's hat honoring Army troops over no-weapons policy

[RamboLiberal]

An 8-year-old student was told his home-made hat decorated with armed plastic Army figures violated the school's gun policy.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island mother says her son's school cited its no-weapons policy in stopping the second-grader from wearing a patriotic hat he made to honor Army troops.

Christan (KRIS'-ten) Morales says her 8-year-old son, David, was assigned to make a crazy hat for his class at the Tiogue (TEYE'-ohg) School in Coventry. She says they brainstormed and he came up with an idea to glue small plastic Army figures to a camouflage hat with an American flag.

But she says David was not allowed to wear the hat for the project. Morales says his teacher called her to say it wasn't appropriate because it had guns, violating a school ban on weapons and toy weapons.

The principal did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20100617/UPDATES01/100617018

I'm surprised they didn't suspend him over some stupid zero-tolerance policy. Hate the lack of common sense policies like this in the schools.

[TexasObserver]

1. Sounds like mommy and daddy tea bagger contrived this.

The school is right. Keep the damn war toys at home.

[wolfgangmo]

3. Zero tolerance policies are what happens when mommy and daddy teabag

get elected to the school board.

[TexasObserver]

5. No, that's not the direction they lean.

This isn't about the kid, but about his parents, who bought the hat and the toys, and helped him make the hat.

If you want to think tea baggers are suddenly zero toleranace on gun control enforcement, you're not clear on their objectives.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Sounds lime he was making fun of the troops since it was crazy hat day

[Obamanaut]

4. From the OP "...school ban on weapons..." There should be a ban

on all weapons then, not just little plastic toys.

I saw an inmate who was stabbed in the neck with a pencil when I was a correctional officer. There are other potential weapons in every classroom. I've seen glass vases on teachers desks, which can be broken into shards which could become weapons.

"Zero tolerance" polices, without common sense, are ludicrous.