zero common sense?

[luke warm]

Dressed in a button-down shirt and tie and speaking calmly and articulately, first-grader Zachary Christie hardly looks or acts like the sort of kid who should be spending 45 days in reform school. But, thanks to a zero-tolerance policy, that’s where Zachary’s Delaware school system wanted him to go after he made the mistake of taking his favorite camping utensil to school.

 

However, a school board member said Tuesday that Zachary is likely to get a reprieve. He said the board will likely amend the policy Tuesday night and that any change would be retroactive to the beginning of the school year. Board member John Mackenzie said that teachers and administrators need the freedom to use their commonsense when it's obvious that a child presents no danger.

 

‘Can I have that?’

A Swiss Army-type combination of fork, spoon, bottle opener and knife, the tool has been Zachary’s favorite ever since he got it to take on Cub Scout camping expeditions. “He eats dinner with it, breakfast and everything else, so it never occurred to him that this would have been something wrong to do,” the 6-year-old’s mother, Debbie Christie, told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Tuesday from Newark, Del.

 

Zachary, an A student who sometimes wears a shirt and tie to school just because he likes to, told Vieira he put the tool in his pocket on Sept. 29 for a very simple reason: “To eat lunch with. I had absolutely no idea this was going to happen. I wasn’t thinking about this. I was thinking about having lunch with it.”..................

 

zero tolerance

[Al_U_Card]

The younger you get them used to the idea of going to prison, the easier it is to put them there as adults.

 

It may be your only growth industry of the future... :ph34r: