GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—School officials in Grand Junction say a kindergartner who brought a toy gun to school was spared expulsion because of a new state law.
A teacher at Nisley Elementary School saw the toy gun in the boy’s backpack on Tuesday. Officials found he wasn’t trying to threaten anyone but just wanted to show friends his new toy.
School district spokesman Jeff Kirtland told The Daily Sentinel that state law previously required anyone with a facsimile gun in school to be removed from school.
Lawmakers changed the state’s “zero tolerance” law in 2009 after a 17-year-old drill team commander was suspended for having practice rifles in her vehicle at a high school in Aurora.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
