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Brighton, Colo. - A 5 year-old Colorado girl was suspended from kindergarten on Monday for bringing a gun to her elementary school.
It sounds alarming, but the weapon was a bubble gun, a popular plastic toy sold at stores across the country.
The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from Southeast Elementary School telling her she needed to pick up her daughter and take her home.
“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. Could we have a warning? It blows bubbles,” she said.
Emma said she never would have knowingly let her daughter bring the toy to school. She said her daughter put it in her backpack without telling her. But the school is sticking to its guns, calling the toy a safety concern and a classroom distraction.
It released a statement Tuesday:
Emma said she understands the motive behind the policy. She just thinks common sense needs to be applied when enforcing it.
"I don't want her to miss out on class. That's a silly reason not to go to school. What bugs me is this is going to be something they can refer to if we have any issues in the future which I don't foresee, but it's always going to be lingering there in her school file,” she said.