Zero Tolerance Patrol: Kindergartener Gets Detention for Bringing Tiny Lego Gun on School Bus
It was the size of a quarter (see the picture nearby). His mom said he didn’t understand the whole zero tolerance policy – he does now. He will probably understand soon that many school administrators are idiots. He will also understand that some of his panty-waisted classmates (like the one who reported the tiny plastic [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: Teacher Fired for Using ‘Negro’ in Class – Spanish Class
O. M. G. You’re kidding, right? No, they’re not kidding. Lunacy continues to run roughshod over common sense. One of the first lessons one learns in English class is that context is everything. The same holds true in Spanish. Take the case of Petrona Smith. She says in a lawsuit that she was fired from [...]
Liberty Univ. Offers Scholarship to Eagle Scout Facing Gun Charges
Good for Liberty. This kid got a raw deal for trying to do the right thing, again demonstrating the complete ignorance of common sense exercised by school administrators. When he was overheard telling his mother to come and take home the unloaded shotgun he accidentally left in his truck (because he knew he wasn’t supposed [...]
‘Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act’ proposed in Maryland
This is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in some places, where they suspend elementary school kids for eating their toaster pastry into the shape of a gun (there’s a link in the story at DC to that sad incident). I suppose, though, that you have to pass a law when people lose [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: 10 Year-Old Arrested and Detained for Bringing TOY Gun to School
The thing was plastic and had one of those orange tips on the end of the barrel. Yet, overreacting administrators decided that the police should be involved in this grave threat to the safety of the other students. I think Glenn Reynolds’ assessment is accurate: sending your kids to public school is looking more and [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: 6-Year-Olds Suspended from School for Playing Cops and Robbers
Another shining example of how common sense has departed from the minds of school administrators everywhere. Perhaps as troubling as the idiocy of the administrators to skip a teaching moment in favor of strict adherence to policy is the fact that they were squealed on by another student. Parents of the zero-tolerance age are teaching [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: Six-Year-Old Suspended for Making Gun Gesture with Hand
There was a time when cooler heads, and common sense would have prevailed and the school could have called the mother to explain to her son that he can’t make politically incorrect statements or gestures in certain places. I love how the school described his completely boy-like behavior as a “serious incident” where he “threated [...]
Zero-Tolerance Idiocy: School District Wants Deaf Boy to Change the Sign for His Name – Because it Looks Like a Gun
This is beyond incredible. It is idiotic. (H/T Free-Range Kids) (1011 Now) Hunter Spanjer says his name with a certain special hand gesture, but at just three and a half years old, he may have to change it. “He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,” explained Hunter’s father, [...]
Zero-Tolerance Patrol: If Your Kid is Getting Sunburned at School, No Sunscreen without a Doctor’s Note
Two kids at a school field day -one who suffers from a form of albinism and is prone to sunburn- start to get sunburned. Though it’s painfully obvious that they’re getting burned, their teachers can’t give them any sunscreen – because it’s not allowed without a doctor’s note. They also were not allowed to put [...]
Ted Nugent is Right: The Regulatory Beast is Rampaging Out of Control
In an editorial in the Washington Times, rock ‘n roller and Secret Service target Ted Nugent argues that our elected officials have gone overboard with their zeal to regulate every aspect of our lives. Always done with the best of intentions, and to protect stupid people from themselves, regulatory bloat is squashing liberty: you can’t [...]
Zero-Tolerance Patrol: NO HUGGING!
Apparently, giving your teacher a hug to thank her is an infraction worthy of suspension. From CBS Charlotte: A North Carolina middle school student has been suspended for hugging a teacher. WECT-TV reports that Ryan Blackmon, an eighth grade student at Bladenboro Middle School, was suspended when he hugged his teacher after she broke up [...]
Zero-Tolerance Idiocy Alert: Gastonia, NC School System
Every time I see one of these examples of zero-tolerance idiocy, I think “gosh, this can’t be that widespread, can it?” Then a few days goes by, and I am proven wrong. It is widespread, and it springs up in (seemingly) the most unlikely places, geography-wise, like Gastonia, NC. Then, I realize most of these [...]
Another Example of the Ever-Expanding (and Increasingly Incompetent) State: Arrested for Riding Bike to School
This story is almost unbelievable. I say almost, because these days there’s almost no limit to the ways that bureaucrats and public employees can circumvent common sense in an attempt to force their will on the citizenry. In Tennessee, apparently, it’s against the law to allow your kid to ride their bike to school. What [...]
Minnesota Tree Trimmer Prevented from Helping Tornado Victims, AND Fined.
This is the kind of story that just makes you crazy. It’s akin to the zero-tolerance idiocy that you hear about almost every week in our public schools. Well-intentioned (that’s giving them the benefit of doubt), but misguided individuals engage in a patently silly course of action, while keeping their common sense safely tucked away [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
In Arvada, Colorado, an 11 year-old boy name “Tim” is being treated for ADD. As part of his therapy, his counselor told him to draw pictures when he gets upset, instead of disrupting the classroom. He followed his counselor’s advice, and got arrested. The school, in this case, actually deserves a little credit, in that [...]
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