Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Student Protection Act”.
Student Protection Act
A BILL
To protect the rights of children.
Sec. 2 Congressional findings
Congress finds:
So-called zero-tolerance weapons policies in federally funded schools are being used to outlaw harmless expressions of childhood play.
So-called zero-tolerance weapons policies in federally funded schools are being used to teach children to be afraid of inanimate objects that are shaped like guns.
A school in Grand Island, Nebraska, this year demanded a three-year-old deaf boy in preschool change his name because its sign language expression resembles a gun.
A seven-year-old Colorado boy was suspended for throwing an imaginary hand grenade.
In Talbot County, Maryland, two six-year-old boys were suspended this year for shaping their fingers in the shape of guns while playing cops and robbers during recess.
A 14-year-old in Kentucky was not only suspended from school this year for wearing an NRA T-shirt that said, protect your right, but the principal called police to have him arrested.
A six-year-old Palmer, Massachusetts, kindergartner who brought a plastic G.I. Joe Lego toy gun on a school bus was given detention and ordered to write a letter of apology to the bus driver and fellow student passengers.
This government-sanctioned political correctness is traumatizing children and spreading irrational fear.
Sec. 3 Declaration of policy
No funds appropriated pursuant to any provisions of law may be used for any educational institution which punishes a student as a result of any of the following actions by the student:
brandishing a pastry or other food which is partially consumed in such a way that the remnant resembles a gun;
possession of a toy gun which is two inches or less;
possession of a toy gun made of plastic snap together building blocks;
using a finger or hand to simulate a gun;
vocalizing imaginary firearms or munitions;
wearing a T-shirt that supports Second Amendment rights;
drawing a picture of, or possessing an image of, a firearm; or
using a pencil, pen or other writing utensil to simulate a firearm.
Effective date— The provisions of this Act shall take effect on the date of enactment of the Act.