Teeny-weeny gun not OK at school, 9-year-old learns

The school has a no-tolerance policy when it comes to toy guns. And that goes for Lego-people, too.

| Sara Shepherd

Comments

[Anarchanon]

Zero tollerance, zero thought, zero maturity on the part of administrators.

[Elrond of Rivendell]

Not my words, but I agree witht hem:

"The way our society has become, we're so scared of everything that could possibly go wrong and so we have such blind allegiance to policy that we obliterate common sense."

[locomotivebreath1901]

The above two comments nailed it: the age of lawyers and unionists govern the 7 hours per day of the 180 days that your kids spend in gub'mint schools.

And your tax dollars are paying for it.

Don't you feel better now?
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[scum]

this is truly retarded...i mean does the principle crack up at this after or does he actually take this cr@p serious? I mean come on....this kid is NOW terrified and probably due to all the trauma will bring a gun in about 5 years ...

[kybo61]

My 10-year-old grandson just completed a 90-day suspension for getting caught with a toy gun his friend brought to school in KCMO. It wasn't this tiny, but still. The other little boy got 180 days.

[Jojoba]

When I was in highschool, we always took squirt guns to school on the last day and had all sorts of fun. I guess those days are over.

[Jellybean]

OMG - It IS a Lego. A LEGO!
BTW - Does a Luke Skywalker action figure with lightsaber get the same punishment? Or is there an exception for tiny pretend copies of pretend weapons?

[Keith G. in P.V.]

Give them an ounce of power and it goes to their head. Which is good, because their heads are totally empty otherwise.

Remember, Ladies and Gentlement, that these "Zero Tolerance" policies didn't arise out of thin air. They were enacted by paniced politicians reacting to paniced public who DEMANDED zero tolerance to keep our "babies" safe. Now you see what happens when absolute rules are allowed to override the brain.

As Tom and Ray point out, it's "unencumbered by the thought process."

[A wierd dude]

anarchanon-you forgot "zero intelligence".

Are school officials mindless robotic puppets incapable of reasoning and judgement?

According to the info at hand, "yes".

[Tom K]

Keith, I thought you knew better. It's not a panicked public and it's not panicked administrators. It's a batch of the worst sociopaths that this world has ever created who are selling us bad solutions to problems and creating a conflict industry.

[Tom K]

Also, as everyone has probably guessed, the principal of that school has a teeny-weeny gun.

[Thin The Herd]

To clean out repositories of incredible stupidity in America, start with the staff at public schools.

[Jane]

Has anybody ever steped on a Lego barefooted? VERY VERY DANGEROUS!

[Searching]

heehee Jane... that was good.

[Drasil]

The way to evaluate a persons character is not through adversity, it's by giving them a little authority.

Hey, where's Oldtimer - I thought he'd be on here blaming religion by now.

[ghost]

There is no common sense left.
The only danger from this toy is choking if swallowed. How can we trust these fools to teach our kids when they are so lacking in intelligence themselves.