“Gun Free Zone” has become a “shooting fish in a barrel” kind of sport for the more literal-minded.
Guaranteed target-rich environment.
Shouting out naughty words used to be the way to get all kinds of attention (most of it unfavorable) for the emotionally deprived child. Now it is to make even the most innocuous of motions that may make some more hypersensitive of teachers think it “could” be a handgun of some type, and the miscreant is to be shamed before his (or her) peers, totally humiliated and shunned for “anti-social” behavior.
Children are made even more vulnerable than ever they were before.
The teacher has become the bogey man. Kids would almost welcome some crazed shooter into the classroom, if only to shut up that teacher who was tormenting some poor classmate.
This is what happens when the educaters are sooooo brainwashed themselves that they have lost all sense or reality and common sense. They are functioning as zombies in a vaccum.
The stupidest aspect of zero tolerance like this, to my mind, is that it has zero to do with the tragic events which has lately deprived our nation of its sanity. They got the location right; elementary schools are in harm’s way. But since when did elementary students go on shooting sprees? Since never. That’s done by outsiders. Regulation of symbolic gun imagery and sound effects among five or ten year olds is neither here nor there.