8 yr old boy's hat banned from school because toy soldiers had guns. [View All]

[madfloridian]

And it violated the school's ban on having guns at school.

Where has our common sense gone?

R.I. Boy's Hat Banned by School


This image made from video provided by WPRI on Thursday, June 17, 2010 shows David Morales wearing a cap he created to honor American troops to fulfill an assignment to decorate a hat in his second-grade class at Tiogue School in Coventry, R.I. School officials told him he could not wear the cap he decorated, saying it violated the district's no-weapons policy because the toy soldiers were carrying tiny weapons. (AP Photo/WPRI)

Christan Morales said her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures.

But the school banned the hat because it ran afoul of the district's zero-tolerance weapons policy. Why? The toy soldiers were carrying tiny guns.

"His teacher called and said it wasn't appropriate," Morales said.

Morales' 8-year-old son, David, had been assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would meet their pen pals from another school. She and her son came up with an idea to add patriotic decorations to a camouflage hat. Earlier this week, after the hat was banned, the principal at the Tiogue School in Coventry told the family that the hat would be fine if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn't have any, according to Superintendent Kenneth R. Di Pietro.

Note to principal. Soldiers do carry guns, real ones. I don't think the zero tolerance idea was meant to be carried this far.