Student In Trouble For Bringing Gun To School... Lego-Sized Gun

[Meule]

Zero tolerance for guns at school: bravo, I applaude that, that's how it should be.
But fer God's sake use some common sense too, will ya.
Almost suspended for a 2" plastic toy. Worst case scenario the kid could've poked out another kid's eye. But you can do more damage with a pen or a pencil

Megotu may not be that far off with his comment about getting detention for drawing a picture of a gun !

It was in the article:

In 2007, a New Jersey 7-year-old was suspended when he drew a picture of gun.

[jwyblejr]

Wonder how things would have gone down if it was one of the old bullhorn looking guns?

[jimbutsu]

Catholic school, eh?

Clearly not- he said it never got used on anyone.

[MegoSteve]

Zero tolerance is one of the worst policy decisions a school district can make about anything and only leads to stupid lunkheaded decisions like suspending a kid for bringing a Lego to school or strip searching a girl because someone accused her of having an ibuprofen pill. It just runs completely counter to rational thought and authoritarian types just love that because the less rational thought there is, the better off they are.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

That's just ridiculous.

[haggis]

That little LEGO guy in the photo looks like a cop to me. Surely it is ok for a 2" policeman to wield a 2" gun at a school?

[ctc]

>Zero tolerance is one of the worst policy decisions a school district can make about anything

Yeah. Problem with something like "zero tolerance" is that nobody really knows what that MEANS.... so folks flinch. They freak over ANYTHING that could REMOTELY be considered a transgression. CYOA.

Don C.