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 BRIGHTON, Colo. -- A 5 year-old girl was suspended from kindergarten on Monday for bringing a gun to Southeast Elementary School. 
  
 It sounds alarming, but the weapon was a bubble gun, a popular plastic toy sold at stores across Colorado. 
  
 The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from the 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: 
  
 “While we hear and understand the parents of this student being concerned about this discipline in light of the student's age and type of item, this suspension is consistent with our district policy as well as how Southeast has handled similar situations throughout this school year. This has involved similar situations where students have brought items such as Nerf guns to school and also received one-day suspensions. The bringing of weapons, real or facsimile, to our schools by students can not only create a potential safety concern but also cause a distraction for our students in the learning process. Our schools, particularly Southeast because of past instances with students bringing fake weapons to school, make a point of asking parents to be partners in making sure students are not bringing these items to school. This includes asking parents to check backpacks.” 
  
 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. ||||| A 5-year-old Colorado girl was suspended after authorities say she brought a clear plastic bubble gun to school.The district is defending a decision critics say defies common sense, after the girl who loves bubbles brought her princess bubble gun in her princess backpack and was immediately suspended for the day."They said it was a fake weapon, and that I needed to come get her," said the girl's mother, who didn't want to be identified. "I appreciate that they're trying to keep our kids safe, I really do. But there needs to be some common sense."A spokesman for School District 27J in Brighton declined requests for interviews, but in an email defended the suspension, stating it "is consistent with our district policy."The policy includes fake firearms that could reasonably be mistaken for an actual firearm, but many question if that actually applies to the princess bubble gun.Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, executive director of the ACLU of Colorado, said these kinds of out-of-proportion punishments have become a national embarrassment, with suspensions for pastry guns, Hello Kitty guns even a finger pointed like a gun.Post-Columbine, schools nationwide enacted zero-tolerance policies, but Tom Mauser, whose son was killed at Columbine and who is an advocate for stricter gun control, said that because of cases like this, he now opposes zero-tolerance."We're given a brain, and we should use it," he said.The district states other students at Southeast have had one-day suspensions for bringing items such as Nerf guns, stating, "students can not only create a potential safety concern, but also cause a distraction."Still, the mother of this student is questioning the punishment, though she agrees the toy should have been taken away."I explained to her, 'hey you messed up not asking mommy if you could bring that to school,'" she said. "'You know to ask.'" |||||
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A 5-year-old in Colorado is in hot water for bringing a gun to school. A toy bubble gun. The girl's mother—Emma, no last name given—tells Fox 31 that she didn't know her daughter had stashed the plastic toy in her backpack. She says she was shocked when the school called and told her to pick the kindergartener up. "Could we have a warning?" she says. "It blows bubbles." But the school is standing its ground, saying in a statement that "despite the student's age and type of item, this suspension is consistent with our district policy," adding that other students have received one-day suspensions for similar infractions, such as packing Nerf guns. The executive director of the Colorado ACLU tells WABC that these types of punishments are clearly out of proportion. And Tom Mauser, who lost his son in the Columbine massacre, says it's cases like these that made him rethink his stance on zero-tolerance policies. "We're given a brain, and we should use it," he tells WABC. Emma tells Fox she understands the spirit of the district's policy. But, in this instance, at least, it's a "silly reason not to go to school," adding, "It's always going to be lingering there in her school file."