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Toy GI Guns Banned from 5th-Grade Graduation
Children asked to Remove Miniture Gun Tips
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, June 15, 2007 - A fifth-grade classroom turned into a free-speech battleground Thursday, when students in Rancho Palos Verdes were asked to remove the weapons from their toy soldiers.Students at Cornerstone school typically decorate their fifth-grade graduation hats with miniature cars, figurines, and other toys.
Before the ceremony Thursday, students were told they could not participate unless they cut off the tips of the guns carried by their plastic G-I's.
Parents reacted angrily, calling the decision censorship. But the school principal and district officials said the guns violated the school's zero-tolerance for weapons on campus.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5397158
Toy GI Guns Banned from 5th-Grade Graduation
Children asked to Remove Miniture Gun Tips
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, June 15, 2007 - A fifth-grade classroom turned into a free-speech battleground Thursday, when students in Rancho Palos Verdes were asked to remove the weapons from their toy soldiers.Students at Cornerstone school typically decorate their fifth-grade graduation hats with miniature cars, figurines, and other toys.
Before the ceremony Thursday, students were told they could not participate unless they cut off the tips of the guns carried by their plastic G-I's.
Parents reacted angrily, calling the decision censorship. But the school principal and district officials said the guns violated the school's zero-tolerance for weapons on campus.