I have a chat board I am on a lot. There is a link to it on my blog roll. Ranching Country. Ranchers, Cowboys and their ilk, from all over. One feller just posted this. This is in a smaller school in Texas. This is what the world is coming to because of the Liberals and their stupid policies!
This really pisses me off!
“Twice in the last few weeks there have been incidents involving “weapons” at school. In one a high school aged eagle scout who is a straight A student and school leader trying to apply and be accepted to West Point was found to have a pocket knife in his car survival kit (along with blanket, candle, MRE, etc as you would expect to find in an eagle scouts cold weather car kit !). When asked about it he admitted it and gave it to the officials. Never lied or tried to get out of the fact he had it (in his car). The second case I saw today and involved a six year old that had just joined the boy scouts. He snuck his swiss army knife with a spoon, fork, and knife to school to use it at lunch because he was so excited about becoming a boy scout. Wrong, yes, criminal ???
Both boys were suspended for different lengths without any consideration per “Zero Tolerance” policies. The 6 year old has to attend a reform school for troubled kids for 45 days !!!!
This also happened several years ago in my hometown, a young man picked up a small piece of metal pipe in the parking lot at school, less than the size of his hand, probably a 1/2″ by 3 inches or so. He liked to make welded sculptures, I had seen several and they were cool. He showed it to a teacher because he was excited about the sculpture he was working on and was suspended for the remainder of the school year! He had never been in trouble before. The piece of metal was deemed “drug paraphernalia”. The kid never had nor has ever since been into drugs.
I think that zero tolerance is an excuse to absolve administrators of the duty to make rational decisions. Why do we pay administrators so much money and then don’t expect them to use common sense and analyze issues on their merits ???
My wife is a teacher and I know many administrators, this is not meant as a knock on them, usually their hands are tied by the school board etc.
May God help us when we no longer have the ability to think for ourselves and consider whether a kid is a problem and danger and when a kid simply makes a mistake …”
Dennisranch 
The adults who enforce zero tolerance with a vengeance should all be drug onto the street, stripped of their clothing, have their heads shaved, then shot until they are dead.
They’re nothing more than politically correct idiots who waste perfectly good oxygen.
Rules are fine, but common sense is essential….funny just one short generation ago everyone, myself included, carried a pocket knife everywhere and nobody caused any trouble with them.
..their supreme leader in DC summed it up best. Yall remember when on TV, when then candidate obama said”..it was above his pay grade..” Perty much goes for the education system….but I digress..
I respect the Office, don’t mean I have to the person holding it.
All I can say is that it just makes me see RED, with the way things are going in the country! It won’t be long and this will not be a free country, or should I say that it is already tooo late!
my dad insisted i carry a pocket knife, and got irritated if i didn’t have it on me — so much changes in a single generation …
I saw the little, six year old pocket-knife-carrier on FOX this evening. When asked what he learned about all this, he said,”I learned to always ask first.” Just an innocent little guy. A little tolerance in using a no tolerance plan is needed here. His mother has a web-site you can go to and sign a petition against the action that might be taken. The school district is now rethinking the no tolerance plan for grades K through 2, which leads me to wonder what happens to a little third grader. This world is going to hell in a hand-basket!…a quote from my great aunt.
Update….have you heard about the Lansingburgh high school student here in Upstate NY, an Eagle Scout, who was just suspended for having a 2″ folding knife, inside his scout survival kit, LOCKED IN HIS CAR?!??? What on earth is this world coming to?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,565520,00.html
This is right near us.