Toy Army Men Violate "Zero Tolerance" Weapon Policy at School?

Ugh. Political correctness run amok.

Christan Morales says her son just wanted to honor American troops when he made a hat decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures.
But the hat ran afoul of the district's no-weapons policy because the toy soldiers were carrying tiny weapons.
"His teacher called and said it wasn't appropriate because it had guns," Morales said.
Morales' 8-year-old son, David, was assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would met 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, the Tiogue School in Coventry sent the hat home with David after class. He wore a plain baseball cap on the day of the visit instead.
Superintendent Kenneth R. Di Pietro said the principal told the family that the hat would be fine if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn't have any.
"The issue for us was, can it be done in a way that didn't violate the zero-tolerance for weapons?" he said. "Nothing was being done to limit patriotism, creativity, other than find an alternative to a weapon."

One wonders if history textbooks are similarly redacted. What if they were knights carry swords? Are those weapons? What if they were pork farmers working in a slaughterhouse carrying giant knives? Are those weapons (hint: I'll bet the pigs think they are...) What if you brought in a caveman holding a rock? Is that a weapon? What if the caveman is posed so that he's sitting on the rock? Is it still a weapon? What if you bitch-slap the principal with the palm of your hand? Is that a weapon?

By: Brant