Zero Tolerance Strikes Again

[Winchester]

[url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100618/ap_on_re_us/us_army_hat_banned"]School bans toy soldier hat[/url]

These people are idiots. I suppose there are no stories with fights in them in the library and no art depicting soldiers. Schools seem determined to raise a generation of emasculated boys. Guess what, idiots: Bullies will be bullies. The only thing they accomplish is making self defense illegitimate. The Catholic school nearby doesn't let boys rough house and you cannot play war on the playground.

Disgusting.

[MIKolbe]

file under swatting flies with a sledgehammer.

sheesh.

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote]"The American soldier is armed. That's why they're called the armed forces," he said. "If you're going to portray it any other way, you miss the point."[/quote]

[ThePenciledOne]

[jeffpugh]

It's part of the kawmeeunyst plan to subdue the children so they will grow up in a generation that is easily pushed around

[homeschoolmom]

silly. Do they cut out pictures from history books with soldiers carrying rifles? Silly....

[Winchester]

Commies recognize the value of killing the opposition. These people are just idiots.

Edited June 18, 2010 by Winchester

[jeffpugh]

Admiral Akbar!

[Norseman82]

The fact that they cannot distinguish between images of weapons and actual weapons shows their gross incompetence. But at least it identifies where some budget cuts can be made.

[homeschoolmom]

Can g-u-n be a first grade spelling word?

[Gregorius]

There was a recent case at the local high school where a student was assulted and robbed. In the main hallway. With multiple students watching. And laughing. Another student caught it on camera. And sent it to the internet before giving it to police. And this school has police on campus during the day. And this student was warned months before-hand that this would happen before the end of the year. And the perpatrator had previous disciplinary problems at this school. And it turns out students like these are passed around from school to school all the time, and crime numbers at specific schools aren't necessarily accurate as all of these crimes supposedly are the same students being shipped around. And this info comes from the head of the county board of education.

This is more like under the file of denying that the fly is a problem.

[Winchester]

Kids fight.

Of course, if the schools let kids defend themselves against bullies, perhaps the bully in your story would already have learnt his lesson.

[Ed Normile]

[quote name='Winchester' date='18 June 2010 - 10:22 PM' timestamp='1276917754' post='2131200']
Kids fight.

Of course, if the schools let kids defend themselves against bullies, perhaps the bully in your story would already have learnt his lesson.
[/quote]

Yup, a bully needs a victim, one who stands up for himself, win lose or draw, takes the advantage of the bully away leaving the bully with opposition instead of a victim.

ed

[Nihil Obstat]

When I was in elementary school we were told on more than one occasion never to play games that involved pretend shooting.

[Geras16]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='19 June 2010 - 05:19 AM' timestamp='1276921161' post='2131234']
When I was in elementary school we were told on more than one occasion never to play games that involved pretend shooting.
[/quote]

There's 2 sides to that. The adults who are looking at a bunch of kids pretend-shooting each other. And the kids playing just another competitive game like tag, dodge ball, and football. Now if I had psycho-trauma from a war and I read this article, that would be another story.