[Ed_in_NJ]

School employees (Super., Prin., etc.) should be held personally liable for these incidents of insanity -- to the point where they are removed and their licenses (etc.) revoked. Members of the board (after trial/conviction) should be similarly barred from continuing in that capacity.

Board members today are not sufficiently accountable (at most they don't get re-elected, but that is no big deal, since they're not getting paid anyway). We should make board seats a paid position (increasing the number who will seek them in the first place) and not rely on those 'volunteers' we get these days to sit on the boards.

[Coleus]

I agree..

The sad part is that there are students bringing in "real" guns into the high school and nothing is being done about it. You never hear about this in the news.

[henderson field]

Zero tolerance is a Nazi concept. The school board and the police should be sued and the penalty should be the retirement funds of both, not to be replaced by the taxpayer.