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 [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: Boy Suspended from School for Bringing Tiny Knife on Camping Trip
It seems there is no longer any common sense; only strict adherence to an inflexible set of idiotic rules. A 10-year-old California boy was suspended and threatened with expulsion after he brought a Swiss Army Knife on a week-long school school camping trip. Tony Bandermann told Fox News that his son Braden was on a [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: Student Stops Teen from Shooting Third Kid, Gets Suspended
That’s right. A student sees another student pointing a gun at a third kid’s head. He wrestles the gun away from the potential shooter, stopping a possible horrible incident. All THREE of the students were suspended the next day, including the potential victim and the kid who wrestled the gun away, for being involved in [...]
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 [...]
Zero Tolerance Patrol: Too Much Cheering at Graduation Results in Diploma Being Withheld
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen yet. I’ve been to graduation ceremonies where they’ve told the kids (and the parents) to act in a “manner befitting the seriousness of the occasion” or some such nonsense. Sure, you don’t want folks to get too carried away, and spoil the ceremony for everyone else. [...]
Zero-Tolerance Idiocy: Detroit Groundskeeper Fired for Turning Found Gun In to Police
This has to rank up there with the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. This guy, who’s two years away from retirement after 23 years on the job, finds a snub-nose revolver while mowing grass. Figuring he’ll do the right thing, he turns it in to police. The idiots running his department, however, fired him for [...]
Zero-Tolerance Patrol: “Idiotic Rules are Bound to be Enforced Idiotically”
Such is the case for three girls who attended Griffith Middle School in Indiana, where the rulebook for student behavior looks like it was crafted by some North Koreans: Students who have the misfortune to attend school here have virtually no speech rights, pursuant to vague, arbitrary anti-bullying and intimidation rules that include such cryptic [...]
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 Patrol: Man Arrested in Canada Because 4 Year-Old Daughter Drew a Gun
That is, she drew a picture of a gun with a crayon. Unfortunately, the little dear did it at school, and we know what that means, right? Idiot school administrators with a rule book and zero common sense spring into action (from Sun News in Canada). Look at the video, which provides more evidence of [...]
More Nanny-State Nightmares: NC Lunch Inspector Declares 4 Year-Old’s Bag Lunch Substandard; Gives Her Chicken Nuggets
At a North Carolina preschool, the lunch inspector (warning bell ringing loudly) inspected the contents of a 4 year-old’s home-packed lunch and declared it did not meet the USDA’s guidelines for a “healthy” lunch. They supplied her with a school-manufactured “healthy” lunch from which the child ate three chicken nuggets. Oh, and they also supplied [...]
Zero-Tolerance Idiocy: Atlanta Teen Punished for Accidentally Bringing 1 1/2″ Knife to School and VOLUNTARILY Reporting It
Earlier this morning, I wrote about how I was a little stumped when it comes to posting things. My father-in-law passed away last week, and the last week has been something of a blur. I figured it would take a couple of days to get back into some kind of groove. I was wrong. All [...]
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 [...]
Zero Tolerance Idiocy: It Just Keeps Getting Better
Here’s the latest report (unfortunately, it’s another one from Virginia) on just how stupid zero-tolerance policies have become. It’s difficult to understand how school administrators let a rigidly fixed set of rules overtake the application of common sense. Yet, it happens again and again. No, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. A six-year-old [...]
Zero Tolerance Idiocy: Students Suspended For Oregano Possession
The zero tolerance idiots strike again. These kids were suspended, and face expulsion, for having an “imitation controlled substance.” So, if you have a bag of some inert substance that looks like it might be something that’s prohibited, you get suspended for that, too? What if your actions as a school administrator make you look [...]
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 [...]
Stuff I Like(d) But Lost to the Effin’ TSA: Gerber Multi-tool
I had one of these for a couple of years. It traveled always in the lower outside pocket of my backpack, which made trips through several airports, and never raised an eyebrow. This past summer, along with friends from here in Richmond, I did a one-act play for a convention of Christiantravel agents (I know, [...]
More Zero Tolerance: “Teaching our Young People How to Be Obedient Subjects in a Totalitarian Society”
I’ve posted a couple of stories about the rampant dunce-cappery being committed by school officials enforcing zero tolerance policies. The stories range from the silly to the completely insane. John Whitehead has a piece at the Huffington Post (aside: wonder if he writes for free?) that details even more zero tolerance stupidity, and explains why [...]
More Adventures in Zero Tolerance: People in Authority are Often Idiots
Common sense be damned! We have rules, after all, and every square-peg incident must be driven into a round-hole rule. This time, the dunce-cappery is in Philadelphia: A 7-year-old child allegedly shot a Nerf-style toy gun in hisHammonton, N.J., school Jan. 18. No one was hurt, but the pint-size softshooter now faces misdemeanor criminal charges. Hammonton Police [...]
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