Eight-year-old David Morales wanted to honor American troops, so he decorated a cap for his second-grade class assignment. Little did he know that he would run afoul of the school's zero-tolerance weapons policy:
Christan Morales said her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures.
But the school banned the hat because it ran afoul of the district's zero-tolerance weapons policy. Why? The toy soldiers were carrying tiny guns.
"His teacher called and said it wasn't appropriate," Morales said.
Morales' 8-year-old son, David, had been assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would meet their pen pals from another school. She and her son came up with an idea to add patriotic decorations to a camouflage hat.
Earlier this week, after the hat was banned, the principal at the Tiogue School in Coventry told the family that the hat would be fine if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn't have any, according to Superintendent Kenneth R. Di Pietro.
The edumacators win again! http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iMXgWX1my2TrMvxt5JNxRShwyzBwD9GD9RV80 (Photo: WPRI)
Seriously? Banned b/c of those little green plastic guys carrying little green plastic guns. Wow..... just.. wow.
He should replace the little guns with little copies of the Second Amendment.
Good on Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio.
Those who can - do.
Those who can't - teach.
Those who can't teach - administrate!
I'd be happy if that really happened, but teaching that guns are bad's not the idea. We have such a gun fetish culture in this country that schools come up with over-the-top rules like this to cover actual weapons and toys that look just like the real thing. The mindset behind the rules is the same as the one that comes up with idiotic three-strikes and mandatory minimum sentencing. If we can't leave judging to adults, it's not surprising that airtight rules get handed down to kids.
uh-oh.
BAN ALL GUNS FROM SCHOOLS! NO MATTER WHAT FORM THEY ARE IN!
uh-oh.
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I didn't even research this particular case, but I'm willing to bet that someone is looking for "monetary restitution."
Do what we tell you. Is that so hard to understand?
"Well son...you see, your brother was in the desert playing hide-and-seek with the people from the desert- yes son, they were using binoculars - well while he was out there playing hide-and-seek global warming killed him" Is that what we should teach our kids? No way.
Yeah, these are the people we put in charge of teaching our children some wisdom via academics.
This is really a failure of zero tolerance policies as danced interpretively by klutzes.
I would probably get suspended for having my finnish coat of arms necklace with me, it's a lion with a sword standing on a sword.
Not allowing the tiny little plastic army men to carry guns will help stop school violence, right? Right? Hello?
i can think of another arrangement of digits i'd display in the face of such idiocy.
Administrators, seriously?! Zero-tolerance policies are just insane. We had a zero tolerance policy for rules in a certain section of the handbook at my high school, one of which was wearing boots with more than 20 "eyes". My friend glued googly eyes to her boots 21 on each. She was nearly suspended and was told that, technically, they could expel her.
This case reminds me of...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95594&page=1
Tweety chains are DANGEROUS!