We\’ve been reporting with great frequency on ridiculous cases involving over-zealous school officials misinterpreting and wrongly enforcing \”zero-tolerance\” rules.
In March, and again last month, we reported on one of the most outrageous cases–that of a seven-year-old Baltimore, Md. student who was suspended for two days for the nefarious act of shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun. Yes, his teacher thought a breakfast pastry was enough of a danger to take the little boy directly to the principal\’s office for immediate discipline, to include a suspension and a permanent record.
Last month we also reported on a remarkably severe \”zero-tolerance\” case in Calvert County, Md., where a 5-year-old brought a cowboy-style, orange-safety-tipped toy cap gun onto his school bus to show to his friend, who had allegedly brought a water gun on the bus a day earlier. As a result, the kindergartner was questioned by school officials for more than two hours before he wet his pants and his mother was called.
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