Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Lucky I'm not a kid these days

...I would likely be arrested, expelled, or something.  This is insane that drawings of what even "looked like a gun" are treated as "a threat".  We drew all kinds of war pictures and other lurid things in grade school and high school that would probably get us painted as even worse by today's "standards".

Zero tolerance policies are actually Zero thought policies.  They allow schools to make one-size-does-not-fit-all decisions without any reprieve or mitigating circumstances.  Imagine if the justice system worked that way.

AZ: School suspends boy for drawing gun » Rational Review
School officials suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.


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