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A Colorado kindergartner was suspended for one day for bringing a bubble gun to school, reports say.

(Jaclyn Allen, Channel 7 via Twitter)

BRIGHTON, Colorado -- A love of bubbles has a 5-year-old girl in trouble.

A "no-tolerance" policy has led a school district to suspend a kindergarten student for one day because she brought a bubble gun to class.

The girl's mother, who gave her name only as Emma, tells KDVR Channel 31 in Denver that she was stunned when she received a call telling her to pick up her daughter and take her home.

"I apologized right away and said that I am so sorry she did that," the girl's mother tells thedenverchannel.com. "I appreciate that they're trying to keep our kids safe, I really do. But there needs to be some common sense. It blows bubbles."

Thedenverchannel.com reports the girl took the bubble gun out in a school hallway before classes started. She was suspended for having a fake gun in school.

Adams County School District 27J released a statement saying the suspension was "consistent" with how it has handled similar situations during the school year.

But thedenverchannel.com reports the district's policy says "discretionary discipline" can be used if a student displays a fake gun that "could reasonably be mistaken for an actual firearm."

"It's absurd to send a 5-year-old home for a bubble-maker," Nathan Woodliff, the executive director of the ACLU of Colorado, tells thedenverchannel.com. "This is a silly example of a very real problem. Zero-tolerance policies often mean zero common sense."