[savedbygrace]

Also, the school principal and vice principal need to lose their jobs over this. Totally inappropriate over-reaction that shows poor decision making abilities.

[goldstategop]

And the DA needs to be Nifonged before he does more damage to small children.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[dsc]

“Also, the school principal and vice principal need to lose their jobs over this. “

They need to be prosecuted, and banned from any responsible position for life.

[angkor]

When you have teachers who don't want to "break the rules" and who also support zero-tolerance policies (e.g., a water pistol is a "weapon"; a peck on the cheek is "rape"); and administrators and principals who want to keep their jobs and also avoid civil lawsuits against them; and elected prosecutors who demonstrate their "get tough" profile by calling Mommy's pinking shears "a deadly weapon" and two Flintstones vitamin pills "a potentially deadly threat to our children", then you have created a system that not only encourage but **demands** the litigious assault against not merely minors (under 18), but little children of 8, 10, and 14 years old.

There are two problems here.

The first is school teachers and officials who are largely terrified of their own students, mainly because the have no legal right or ability to control those students in a civilized or rational manner (e.g., suspension, expulsion, etc.).

And the precipitating cause of all of this is a judicial system that is infested with judges who legislate from the bench, and who impose a whimsical and arbitrary system of justice that absolutely mocks cultural norms of behavior and subverts the ruole of law.

I am by no means supporting the reprehensible cowardice of teachers and administrators when they participate in prosecuting 9 and 11 year old children for someting that would have meant a note to Mommy and Daddy 25 years ago.

But I am saying that teachers, administrators, prosecutors, and communities have created an irrational and hysterical system full of unintended consequences, the most horrific of which is that little children from 7 to 13 years old can and do become felons for having a plastic picnic knife in their lunchbox.

This is entirely the fault and responsibilty of communities, who do have the power to change the rules. And if they instead choose to offload their civic responsibilities to such a twisted system of injustice, they deserve everything they get. Unfortunately it is their children who will pay the price.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the school principal and vice principal need to lose their jobs over this. Totally inappropriate over-reaction that shows poor decision making abilities.

The individual parent has only one way of making his/her "no confidence vote" stick. And that would be to absent his/her children for that school - by moving out of district or by otherwise making different arrangements for the education of their children.

[Balding_Eagle]

Given the scope of what this has all become by now, justice would be dragging the adults responsible to a public suare and hanging them.

I mean it.