Darn it, I was prepping this for post as you were. I must have spent a few extra minutes working on it.
Here's what I mentioned in my post:
"Hearing examiner Norma Briggs recommended that the Madison Metropolitan School District needed to apply "an ounce of common sense" to its zero-tolerance policy!"
This in the People's Republic of Madistan, the Berkeley of the mid-west!
that school principal ought be assigned a job more in line with her reasoning ability...peeling onions in the lunchroom kitchen would be my suggestion, though she ought not be allowed access to sharp objects...