Sigh. Just when you think you’ve already heard the dumbest case ever involving idiotic zero-tolerance policies -BAM!- here comes a topper. Andrew Mikell II, a 14 year-old freshman at Spotsylvania High School, was bored, and looking for something to do. So, during lunch one day, he whips out a tube made from a pen (see photo nearby), and some plastic pellets, and fires off a few volleys at unsuspecting classmates. Three
students were struck. High-school lunchtime fun right?
Wrong. Andrew was expelled from school for using a “weapon” and charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault. The expulsion comes as a result of the zero-tolerance policy of the federal Gun-Free Schools Act, which should be called the No Common-Sense Act:
The federal Gun-Free Schools Act mandates that schools expel students who take weapons, including hand guns, explosive devices and projectile weapons, to school. E-mail traffic among school officials showed they ruled that Mikel’s plastic tube, which was fashioned from a pen casing, met the definition of a projectile weapon because it was “used to intimidate, threaten or harm others.”
School officials in some e-mails referred to the plastic casing as a “metal tube.” The plastic pellets were called “B-Bs.”
“We have an obligation to protect the students in our building from others who pose a threat to the over-all safe learning environment,” Russell Davis, principal of Spotsylvania High, wrote to other school officials in one e-mail.
But the school’s hearing officer, John Lynn, wrote to administrators that he was “not at all comfortable expelling or suspending this student for the remainder of the year,” according to the documents. School officials insisted. When Mikel’s father appealed the case, the school board’s three-member disciplinary committee upheld the ruling.
“I was just astonished when I heard,” said the younger Mikel, who is being home-schooled.
Home-schooled? Aren’t these liberal idiots more worried about that? What kind of radical will this kid become now?
Read about the whole idiotic thing at The Washington Post
