Posted on 05/14/2011 3:14:21 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Graham Dennis was handcuffed, fingerprinted and charged with possession of a deadly weapon. He was also suspended from school for 10 days. Casey Edsall was accused of having an explosive on school property. He got a one day suspension.
The Eaton High juniors play lacrosse. The explosive device was a lighter. The deadly weapon was a pocket knife. Both are tools the boys use to maintain their lacrosse sticks.
“I tore a couple white strings on the side and I had to replace them with black strings,” said Dennis. “I cut them and burn them there. If I don't cut them and burn them, they fray.”
School administrators heard that explanation, but their zero-tolerance policy doesn’t allow for exceptions. The boys and their parents said that’s absurd.
“I feel like common sense should've come into play,” said Casey Edsall. “And I think it was outrageous, the claims that they made.”
Graham finished his suspension last week. Both boys are back playing and practicing with the team. A coach now carried a tool box for stick maintenance.
But they worry about the next student who gets caught up in a zero-tolerance issue. And they worry about lasting damage to their futures.
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zero tolerance == lack of common sense.
that’s the whole point behind zero tolerance. You no longer are allowed to think or use common sense - you must enforce ‘zero tolerance’ for whatever it is.
Public schools are not safe for children or other living things. The bad far outweighs any good in public education today. The first step to fixing it is to abolish the Department of Education. The next is to eliminate forced union membership of teachers.
Tragic.
Someday, somebody will snap, drag one of these bureaucrats out into the street, and beat him hard.
“I had no choice.” Boo-hoo.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Tragic.
Someday, somebody will snap, drag one of these bureaucrats out into the street, and beat him hard.
“I had no choice.” Boo-hoo.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
LOL! It is amazing the stupid things that liberals whip themselves in to a frenzy about, then turn around and ignore what’s important.
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