MrsMo
05-15-2011, 06:31 PM
Found this little tidbit in today's http://www.uexpress.com/newsoftheweird/
Zero Tolerance?
Recently, public school students were expelled in Spotsylvania, Va. (possession of homemade tubing for launching plastic "spitballs" in lunchroom horseplay) (December); arrested in Hammonton, N.J. (a 7-year-old, for bringing to class a Nerf-type "gun" that fired soft balls) (January); and arrested in Arvada, Colo. (for drawing violent stick figures, which was recommended by his therapist as a way to tamp down harmful thoughts) (February). Meanwhile, in March, at the other end of "zero tolerance," a judge allowed Ryan Ricco, 18, to play for his school in a big basketball tournament despite being on modified house arrest after being charged with threatening to blow up two other high schools in the Chicago suburbs. [Washington Post, 2-1-2011] [WCAU-TV (Philadelphia), 2-2-2011] [KDVR-TV (Denver), 2-23-2011] [Chicago Tribune, 3-18-2011]
Zero Tolerance?
Recently, public school students were expelled in Spotsylvania, Va. (possession of homemade tubing for launching plastic "spitballs" in lunchroom horseplay) (December); arrested in Hammonton, N.J. (a 7-year-old, for bringing to class a Nerf-type "gun" that fired soft balls) (January); and arrested in Arvada, Colo. (for drawing violent stick figures, which was recommended by his therapist as a way to tamp down harmful thoughts) (February). Meanwhile, in March, at the other end of "zero tolerance," a judge allowed Ryan Ricco, 18, to play for his school in a big basketball tournament despite being on modified house arrest after being charged with threatening to blow up two other high schools in the Chicago suburbs. [Washington Post, 2-1-2011] [WCAU-TV (Philadelphia), 2-2-2011] [KDVR-TV (Denver), 2-23-2011] [Chicago Tribune, 3-18-2011]