Schools that punish for imaginary guns could lose federal funding - BizPac Review

Schools that punish for imaginary guns could lose federal funding - BizPac Review: Saying ”zero tolerance” school policies that punish young children for innocent play “create irrational fear of imaginary objects,” U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, on Tuesday introduced a bill that would block federal funding for schools with policies he says constitute abuse.

“Too often so-called ‘zero tolerance’ policies are being abused by school authorities to punish children for innocent play or, worse, try to indoctrinate them to be terrified of anything even shaped like a gun,” Stockman said in announcing the Student Protection Act. “Instead of nurturing young minds these policies are traumatizing children who did nothing wrong or instilling in them irrational fears.”

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