This time the "zero tolerance" laws for schools have gone too far.#1 Fifth-graders in Racho Palos Verdes, California decorated their promotion mortarboards with American flags and toy soldiers to support the troops in Iraq. These patriotic kids were ordered by school officials to cut off the tiny plastic weapons that the toy soldiers were holding. So now plastic 1/2 inch weapons are a danger to students? There is a difference between safe and stupid.
#2 In Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for having a plastic knife to cut cookies with. I'm surprised the school didn't call the FBI to investiagte, the kid is probbaly part of a terrorist plot to attack all kindergarten schools in Rhode Island...give me a break.
#3 Last year in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, senior Patrick Agin was told that his senior picture of him dressed up in his medieval re-enactor's costume would not be put in the school yearbook because he was holding a sword in the picture. Agin understood his school's policy for no weapons on school grounds, he had never brought the sword to school, and yet his photo was being censored. This year school officials relented and published the yearbook with the photo. Agin was quoted as saying, "You can't really have a zero tolerance. We have track and field. We throw javelins. If you think about it, you can pretty much make anything into a weapon." Agin is right "zero tolerance" is a joke.
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You know why they do it, don't you? If they crack down on ridiculous things like this, they can tar those trying to win the War on Terror with these same idiotic brushes. That's why Norm Mineta strip searches little old ladies on their way to Boise but lets the Jordanian cab drivers walk on unmolested. If people get fed up with stupid measures they'll throw out the people trying to protect us and if there's another attack they can say, "Well, all those security measures didn't save us, did they, President Bush?" It's sick.
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