GOP Bill would Defund Schools with Rules Against Playing with Imaginary Guns

Don’t mess with Texas!

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) introduced legislation this week to block federal funding for schools that enforce rules that punish students for playing with imaginary weapons.

The Student Protection Act, H.R. 2625, is a reaction to what Stockman says is the zero tolerance policy at some schools that has led to several suspensions of very young children who engage in these activities, including cases where students pretended their thumb and index finger is a gun.
The bill finds that these school policies are being used to outlaw “harmless expressions of childhood play,” and are only teaching students to “be afraid of inanimate objects”  that are shaped like guns.

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Food for Thought:

Does your school have a policy that prohibits imaginary guns? What do you think of these and other policies? What is your opinion of this proposed bill?