More zero-tolerance nonsense
Remember when I blogged back at the beginning of the school year about the idiocy of the teachers' union protecting a cocaine-using teacher from being fired? Well, that school is back in the news, for, you guessed it, applying a tyrannical "zero-tolerance" policy against a student.
As the WSJ reports, a student may be expelled for finding a bag of pills on school grounds. That's right. Unlike the teacher, who came to school intoxicated on cocaine and yet was allowed to stay on the payroll and was not terminated by the school (he chose to resign), this Honor Society student may be terminated for simply finding a bag of pills and making the mistake of picking them up.
You know, I hear a lot complaints about students not learning higher-order thinking skills in school. But wwhen a situation like this occurs, I bet the student body learns to recognize hypocrisy, dishonesty, and stupidity just fine, and their sense of irony becomes stronger to boot. Funny, I thought Dubya's act was called "Leave No Child Behind", and not "Leave No Teacher Out Of Work Despite Drug Abuse, But Kick Children Out For Nothing."