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The issue isn't just the candy. The issue is over-the-top school administrators who over-reacted and came down with the "zero-tolerance" sledgehammer approach which was unfair and unjustified. The only lesson this kid learned (not to mention the rest of America) is that the school administrators have NO critical thinking ability and no common sense. What are people like this doing in the field of education?

A more appropriate action would have been to just take the bag of candy away (and not return it) and patiently explain the rules, and tell him if he did it again, he would be put in detention.

I understand schools exist to teach appropriate lessons, not to go hog-wild on a kid with their power trips and heavy-handed, "I'll make an example out of you" punishment. They truly deserve being exposed and ridiculed for the stupid dolts they are.

"What are people like this doing in the field of education?"

All those cowardly Marxist college kids who used their deferments during Vietnam didn't have the brains or the ideology to go into some useful field like engineering. So instead they went into education.

Now these people are the administrators of school systems and their own views color everything from curriculum to discipline. Zero-tolerance policies are just one of the failed ideas that have ruined education in the last 40 years or so. These are the same people who've given us outcome-based education, the drugging of boys just because they act like boys with their phony diagnoses of non-existent alphabet-soup "illnesses", and the banning of "violent", "competitive", and "this fosters bullying" sports like dodgeball.

They're in the field of education because they couldn't cut it anywhere else.