7-year-old boy suspended from school for drawing a gun

A second-grade boy in New Jersey was suspended after drawing a stick figure shooting a gun. He gave the offending drawing to another child on the school bus, whose parents complained to the school, leading to the suspension.

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The boy who was suspended was 7-year-old Kyle Walker. According to a local newspaper report, Kyle was suspended for one day for violating the school's zero-tolerance policy regarding guns (a policy based on the 'broken windows' principle, which strictly punishes violations of the rules). His mother said, 'All my son did was draw a picture of a water gun.'

This is not the first time a student has been suspended in New Jersey for gun-related reasons; a 4-year-old boy was previously suspended for simply making a gun shape with his hand while playing with a game of ' Keidoro .'

The standards for violations seem to be quite strict, but how effective will they be?