Stupid Grown-Up Tricks (Updated) 0
From the resident curmudgeon at my local rag.
I seldom agree with her, but this is one of the exceptions. It’s a case where her curmudgeonly talents are well employed.
For the crime of being boys.
On Friday, these two 7-year-olds pointed pencils at each other and made shooting noises. By doing so, they triggered Suffolk’s Code Hysteria and automatically were bounced from school for two days.
She comes perilously close to implying that this is somehow akin to a desire for rational gun regulations, but stops just short.
She reports that Suffolk officials were, as they say, unavailable for comment.
Suffolk is where peanuts come from (and far better than the peanuts from Georgia!). The peanuts seem to have cross-fertilized the brains of the school administration.
Read the rest.
Addendum:
Suffolk is “reconsidering” the policy.
Oddly, “reconsidering” implies that “considering” had previously occurred.
