Introduce flexibility and reason into school weapon laws

[MikePapa1]

Introduce flexibility and reason into school weapon laws : Letters to the Editor : The Rocky Mountain News

Letter to the editor. It shows exactly how uncommon common sense really is.

[Guest friesepferd]

truth. *nods*

[Guest PapaB]

 
Zero tolerance may have seemed like the right thing to do after the Columbine tragedy, ...
[/PHP]

No, zero tolerance wasn't the right thing to do, it was the easy thing to do. That way the progressives don't have to choose between good and bad, it's all bad. And they don't have to judge anyone or accept responsibility for their decisions, "it's not my choice, it's the rules".

[DaveTN]

“Zero Tolerance†never works. It’s for people that are too lazy to do their job or don’t want to have to take responsibility for their decisions.

Teachers and administrators need to have discretion. But even then you will have parents whining when one kid get a two day suspension and another gets a two week suspension. This is parents and teachers; it’s always going to be high drama.

[peejman]

flexibility and reason into school weapon laws

There's an oxymoron if I ever saw one...

No, zero tolerance wasn't the right thing to do, it was the easy thing to do. That way the progressives don't have to choose between good and bad, it's all bad. And they don't have to judge anyone or accept responsibility for their decisions, "it's not my choice, it's the rules".

Amen.

[JAB]

Thank goodness, Marie Morrow’s school “interpreted” state law, and limited her punishment to suspension, for the mistake of leaving facsimile weapons in her car at school. a senior left his Civil War uniform and inoperative musket in his car after a re-enactment. He was expelled...

Personally, I find it to be the height of stupidity that a student can be punished in any manner, whatsoever, for having a facsimile weapon in their vehicle, drawing pictures of 'weapons' or even (in at least one case I read about) having a tiny 'gun' that is an accessory for an action figure (G.I. Joe or similar) at school. Such items are not 'dangerous' in any way, shape, form or fashion. To me, it is indicative of a desire by those who are making the rules to brainwash students by instilling the idea that even thinking about something that even remotely looks like a weapon is 'wrong' or 'evil'. Do these same morons go through the history textbooks and edit out any depictions of or references to weapons? If so, I guess such things as the famous painting of Washington crossing the Delaware are out as are newspaper illustrations of various battles, any mentions of the myriad wars and assignations that have shaped world history or any depiction of forts, battleships or the like. In fact, I wonder how they study history, at all.

Along with tossing out history, I guess literature has to go, too. I mean, just look at all the sword fights and so on in Shakespeare's works. Surely students wouldn't be allowed to read, watch or, horror of horrors, perform in such violent plays. Not just Shakespeare, though. Certainly there can be no discussion of Beowulf - who cares if it is the earliest known example of English (Old English) literature? It's just so violent with all those swords and cutting off heads and arms.

There's too much violence depicted throughout the history of Art, too, so I guess most of that will have to go. We simply can't have students exposed to such things.

What a bunch of malarkey.

Edited June 14, 2011 by JAB

[deerslayer]

To me, it is indicative of a desire by those who are making the rules to brainwash students by instilling the idea that even thinking about something that even remotely looks like a weapon is 'wrong' or 'evil'

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