From James Taranto at Opinionjournal.com (scroll down to find the story). "Zero-tolerance" nonsense, junior-high-school-variety. Quote: "An East Valley eighth-grader was suspended this week after he turned in homework with a sketch that school officials said resembled a gun and posed a threat to his classmates," reports the East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Ariz.: But parents of the 13-year-old, who attends Payne Junior High School in the Chandler Unified School District, said the drawing was a harmless doodle of a fake laser, and school officials overreacted. . . .Payne Junior High officials did not allow the Tribune to view the drawing. The Mostellers said the drawing did not depict blood, injuries, bullets or any human targets. They said it was just a drawing that resembled a gun. But Payne Junior High administrators determined that was enough to constitute a gun threat and gave the boy a five-day suspension that was later reduced to three days."
Are there really people who think these draconian, inflexible, nonsensical-on-their-face, if-you-even-draw-a-picture-of-something-that-looks-like-a-gun-you're-suspended policies are good things?
