State Rep. Sally Kern wants to make it illegal for an Oklahoma school official to punish a student for brandishing a partially eaten pastry in the shape of a weapon.

“Let's let children be children,” said Kern, R-Oklahoma City.

Kern said she was motivated to author a bill prohibiting punishment of students who sculpt pastries into the shape of weapons by an incident last March in which an 8-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.

Kern said she's not aware of any Oklahoma student ever being punished for such conduct, but she wants to make sure it doesn't happen here.