The Crime of the Zero Tolerence Policy

After reading this latest shameful act by a school I had to say something and I hope you will agree. A fourth-grader, Bradley Geslak, was suspended from Toy Town Elementary School for bringing a Memorial Day souvenir to school. A soldier had given young Bradley an empty brass shell casing that was used in the Memorial Day celebration as souvenir and the young boy was suspended for five days after taking it too school. The school is refusing to return his private property, and are considering assigning the boy a probation officer. He is only 10 years old for crying out loud! We will stand up and protect the rights of fanatics who want to kill us, but we won't stand up for our own children and their rights? Where is the equality in that?

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3975 - Link to the article.


Because of this asinine Zero Tolerance Policy our children are being expelled from schools around the nation for simple innocent things such as pointing fingers, drawing pictures, reading magazines, playing with harmless toys, and so on. Why is there no out cry of support for our children when they are being catastrophically punished because of a one size fits all arcane school policy that does little more than punish kids for being kids. Yet when some fanatic gets mad because some unbeliever touched his holly book, the out crying of support for him is deafening.

I don't understand why it is that we will stand up for everyone else's rights but when it comes to our own and those of our children, we are a no show. Instead we criminalize our children for being children. This is just utterly demoralizing to say the least. This zero tolerance policy that has been universally adopted by schools around this nation has been hijacked and horribly misused by totalitarianistic school officials to enforce an ever harmfully increasing far left liberal anti-American doctrine.

Our children are being punished for ridiculous and utterly outrageous reasons all in the name of Zero Tolerance. Tell me how can it be called protecting the young when you humiliate, expel, and then assign a probation officer to a 10 year old boy who's only crime was playing with a harmless peace of brass? Or worse, playing with a GI Joe figure, or drawing a gun on a peace of paper? Since when is it a criminal offense to read the American Rifleman during library time?

People are upset because a teacher in Florida had the class vote a disrupted child from the room, yet when an innocent 10 year old is kicked out of school for doing NOTHING wrong, no one gets angry. Why, why is that?