We knew this day was coming - schools are now enforcing zero-tolerance policies that are not only idiotic, but don't actually exist:
Two fourteen year old students at Farb Middle School in the San Diego Unified School District were arrested yesterday for possession of a toy Airsoft gun...This expulsion attempt will occur despite possession of imitation weapons being classified as an offense punishable only by suspension in the school's discipline policy. By contrast the district policy for suspension doesn't deal with imitation weapons at all. In order to be expelled according to district policy a student would not only have to posses an actual weapon but would also have to use it.
So here we have a school district that had two students arrested for a legal activity and is expected to expel them for something they don't classify as an offense...They are enforcing a zero tolerance weapons policy that does not even exist.
ZI has links to back up his statement. Apparently the officials involved assume that parents don't know how to use Google.
Posted by kswygert at July 19, 2005 08:53 AM