Because seeing a two inch plastic toy is going to make me get a gun and kill people. Seriously, why can't American schools focus on education anymore?
This is ridiculous and we had something similar to this happen to us near the end of the year. This one teacher wanted to use some water guns to hose down the graduating seniors. However we didn't get to do that because of this sort of toy weapon ban. We ultimately used silly string.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/1...ge-policy-banned-soldier-hat/?test=latestnews After the coverage this story got, the school changed the rules to allow similar attire xD Oh well, at least they changed.