A 10-year-old girl was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to her elementary school.
The scissors were discovered while students’ belongings were being searched for property missing from a teacher’s desk.
Now, lets think about this for a second; someone in that school actually called the police for this. Not only that, the cops actually arrested the girl. To their credit, better judgement overcame them and they let her go. The administration, on the other hand typically is not overcome by better judgement or, judgement of any kind. That is doubtful because the suspended her for five days.
These asinine decisions cause life long harm to children and parents. It simply has to stop. Our children are being treated as felons by a system with automatic and severe punishments for the stupidest reasons. Squirt guns, model rockets, asprin from the cupboard, etc… Zero-tolerance should never have become a tool for lazy, frightened administrators. Nor, should it be used in our court systems. Nor, should it be used by our god-blessed administration in domestic and foreign policies either.
We are loosing the ability to think for ourselves and govern ourselves in the process.