When school starts in Somerset, Massachusetts next week, elementary students will face a new rule that bans any talk or gestures of weapons, according to WBZ News.
Though the punishment for such talk or gesturing has not been stipulated, children will not be allowed to mimic guns with their hands or talk about other weapons like knives on school grounds, WBZ News reported.
“So there have been several cases where kids on the bus are making gestures and we didn’t have anything in there to discipline them,” Timothy Plante, Principal at Somerset’s Chace Street Elementary School, told the school committee. (RELATED: Media Outlets Claimed A Florida School Banned A Poem. It’s Still Available)
Plante said the rule highlights the desire of all three elementary schools in town to curb violence, WBZ reported.
But not everybody in town thinks the new guideline is needed.
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