[50mm]

We must protect society from the dangers of foam, apparently. Maybe the foam darts should be registered too.

[agere_contra]

Assault Foam.

[wita]

Time to register a few school officials and make an example of zero tolerance policies that masquerade as thought.

[Tax-chick]

The act includes lookalike weapons.

For what actual weapon is a foam dart gun a "lookalike"?

Take your son out of this pathetic school system, Mr. Smith, and sign him up for a shooting club.

[Pablo64]

Zero Tolerance = Zero Intelligence

Zero tolerance policies are a convenient excuse for school administration zombies to not have to engage their brain. They claim it's the only way to fairly treat an issue, but what it really does is relieve them of having to take any measure of responsibility and apply common sense on a case by case basis.

[PubliusMM]

Political Correctness run amok.

Time to take back the country.

[doodad]

The district said it is allowed to use some discretion when it comes to punishment

Yet none of them ever do.

[Robe]

The act includes lookalike weapons

Yeah.. this would really confuse me !!! / scarcasm

[magslinger]

Going through life with a pathological fear of inanimate objects must be terrible thing. If it weren’t for the fact that these crazy people are in charge, I would say they should only be pitied.

[Sax]

Look more like a spray bottle of Formula 409 than a firearm. It's a glorified straw and spitall, no need for anybody to wet their pants.

[wintertime]

Columbus City Schools?...Hmmm? ...Ok! I get it!!!!

This is about equalizing the offense rates between the black kids needing expulsion and the white kids.

To equalize the rates the school officials make up rules that white kids are likely to break. Ayn Rand's quote comes to mind about government making so many rules that everyone ( even the white kids) become lawbreakers.

There is a **real** difference in the seriousness of behavior that gets a black inner city Columbus kid expelled and that of shooting a Nerf ball, but in the statistical reports these offenses will look the same and the school officials will look more racially even handed.

“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough ( white government school kid) criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men ( white government school kids) to live without breaking laws.” ( Ayn Rand)
Ayn Rand

[Redbob]

Pity the schools don’t have a “Moron-Free Zone” policy: few of their administrators would be allowed in...

[JamesA]

Makes me want to go out and kick to jerks ass.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“”I believe the crime should fit the punishment,” he said. “

Give him the chair..

[mmichaels1970]

hmmm...How about a Nerf gun that shoots peanuts or peanut-related products? Probably treat that like a WMD.

School webiste is pretty bad. Can't find much by way of contact email addresses, but there are phone numbers there. District website isn't much better, but has some BOE members.

[ExSoldier]

Back in the 1970s there was a game played on college campuses called the Assassination Game (made a movie based on it starring that guy who played "Goose" in Top Gun -- Anthony Edwards? IIRC the title was GOTCHA!) where teams would face off and "hunt" each other using rubber tipped spring powered dart guns or in some places paint ball guns. If you were anywhere on campus except a dorm, dining hall, library or a classroom building, you were fair game. IIRC, Army ROTC used to hire themselves out as mercs to cover contestants during walks across campus. ROTC didn't charge $$ for the service of course. At my school, we worked for BEER. It was fun and innocent and nobody ever got injured. The administration turned a blind eye, placing it (correctly) in the same category with Fraternity pranks. What happened to our country?

[The Working Man]

I graduated from this High School in 1973. Frankly I haven’t been back to Columbus since then as I was in Boot Camp a week after graduation. My parents also decided to leave the area and seek their fortunes in Texas where they did extremely well.

I am soooooo glad that I didn’t have to put up with this as a teen-ager and even my own children who are now grown and on their own didn’t have it this bad.

Zero tolerance does equal Zero Thought which makes it a perfect option for many of our citizens of the democratic persuasion as nothing can be their fault because -——— (you fill in the blank, it varies in name but it is all the same).

[Oztrich Boy]

Nerf World is a scary dangerous place

[jimt]

Zero tolerance = Zero intelligence.