I'm still scratching my head over this one. The school administrators (and some in the comments to the article) are making the claim that he violated the weapons policy with the toy gun. In their twisted, warped, hoplophobic little minds, a plastic representation of a weapon is the same thing as the real thing - one has to wonder if they extend that to drawings as well. Plastic toy ≠ weapon. End of story. And yet this child has been out of school for over a year.Samuel Burgos has fond memories of his friends at school, but he only gets to see them in pictures now. The 8-year-old boy hasn't been in school for a year and will likely miss another year if the Broward County School Board has its way.
Burgos was suspended from school in November after a teacher found a toy gun in his backpack. But when the boy went to register to go back to Pembroke Pines Charter School, he was told he will be expelled for this school year, too, as part of the county's zero tolerance weapons policy.
Welcome to Zero Tolerance theater, where common sense takes a back seat to mindlessly following a moronic policy.
That is all.
And yes, this is another link from PISSED...
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Of course it extends to drawings
Remember this story.
http://www.kpho.com/news/13943838/detail.html
It also extends to yearbook pictures: http://www.splc.org/news/report_detail.asp?id=1168&edition=34
Sadly, above happened in my own state, yet one of my yearbook pictures was of me with Six-foot Barbi in Provincetown. That same picture with the transvestite was in our graduation slide-show. Drag-queens okay, rifles, that's just political now.
If a representation of a gun is a weapon, then words such as "gun", "firearm", "pistol", etc are all representations of a weapon, yes?
Any of the administration and staff who have a copy of the district policy on them need to be fired for violating the policy.
Sound nanny-state left logic, correct?
So I am guessing that there are no pictures in the hall, like "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and the history books have definitely been excised of images of Civil War soldiers, and there certainly isn't any movie clip showing modern soldiers.
Have they not figured out that scissors, pencils, pens, paperclips, rubber bands, binder clips, socks, coins, and books (all of which can be found in abundance in schools) are very effective weapons?
Some time, when you've had enough (i.e. too much) to drink, I'll tell you the story of the Dept. of Ed. employee who was almost fired 'cause he wouldn't remove his miniature CIB award from his lapel. Yup, it had a RIFLE on it and thus "inappropriate" for office wear. UFB.
INSANE ... so so very glad the school my girls go to don't have such stooopid policies!
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