Zero Tolerance for Guns

Some elementary school students handled a BB gun near a school bus stop. The result is that they've been expelled.

NEWPORT NEWS -- A group of boys played with a BB gun near their bus stop on March 27, according to mothers who were not there but gathered information on their own. The BB gun was unloaded, the parents said, so when the children took turns pulling the trigger, it only fired air. When the kids saw the bus coming, the last boy to hold the BB gun put it down.

Four children were suspended and then expelled for the incident from Sanford Elementary, which is on Colony Road in the Denbigh part of Newport News.

I think the school district is on shaky ground here. Yes, their policy says students may not have weapons at school bus stops. But where does that end? How far away would you have to be before it's not at a school bus stop?

So, if the kids usually stand in your driveway to load onto the bus, and you decide to take junior deer hunting, if someone sees him touch a weapon while loading the truck up, he'll be expelled?

Worse yet, these are the rules for all of the students, not just the elementary kids.