11 year old suspended for turning in toy gun ...

[muddywings]

Well as you know, highly educated does not mean "smart." Zero Tolerance is the worst possible policy ever created when it comes to schools.

This times infinity plus infinity squared. I work with very highly educated people yet they had to hire me, a knuckle dragger, to run their operations and balance their budgets.
It's cliche and stereotyping but teachers teach because they can't 'do' yet over time those teachers become administrators who never learned how to apply their management or leadership theories in real life. Once in power, everything goes to chaos theory real quick.

[Ronin13]

Like I said before .. forget the whole retatdedness for the zero tolerance suspension over a toy....

They re regularly patting down 11 yr olds at school who have done nothing wrong but go to school ... that doesn't bother anyone ?

It is Chicago... AKA Liberal Utopian city (with a very high murder rate to go with it!). CA, DC, NY, IL, these are places where freedom is a very loose word. Yes, this bothers me, but look at which side's policies run those places... that's right, extreme left policies. I guess we chalk that up to stupid games, stupid prizes. And they're moving this direction!!!

This times infinity plus infinity squared. I work with very highly educated people yet they had to hire me, a knuckle dragger, to run their operations and balance their budgets.
It's cliche and stereotyping but teachers teach because they can't 'do' yet over time those teachers become administrators who never learned how to apply their management or leadership theories in real life. Once in power, everything goes to chaos theory real quick.

Very well said. Most teachers I know now (that are my age) are very stupid, for being "highly educated." It's sad that some of them cannot see past their liberal agenda, one I even went to HS with believes in the whole cradle-to-grave care... I constantly attack her opinions about kids with "Stop letting the government (department of education) raise your kids, be a damn parent!"