Boy Nearly Suspended Over 2 Inch Plastic Toy Gun

I have written a lot of posts on the stupidity of zero tolerance policies and those who refuse to exercise common sense, but brother, this one takes the cake:

Patrick and a friend were playing with Lego figures in the school cafeteria on Tuesday when he pulled out the faux machine gun and stuck it in the hands of his plastic police officer.

Boom! Trouble ensued, with Patrick’s mom getting a phone call from Public School 52 Principal Evelyn Mastroianni saying her son had somehow gone from straight A’s to the NRA.

“I was in disbelief,” the still-fuming mother said. “Why didn’t anyone step up with an ounce of common sense and put an end to the harassment of my child?”

Timoney said her boy loved the toy figure because her husband is a retired police officer.

The elder Patrick Timoney, a former 72nd Precinct cop, couldn’t believe his son was nearly busted over something so obviously inauthentic.

“It’s a 2-inch gun,” he said. “She went overboard. She should have said, ‘Put the toys away,’ and that would have been the end of it.”

Here is a picture of how terrifying this gun looks:

Patrick was almost suspended for this. How could they not go on lockdown?

“The toy gun is not the issue,” she said. “A lack of common sense is the issue.”

Exactly.

William Cross

Lack of common sense is probably not the culprit. The culprit here is a really stupid liberal.
William Cross

Lack of common sense is probably not the culprit. The culprit here is a really stupid liberal.
http://www.usofearth.com/blog Mike Anthony

Lack of common sense and the real sense that there are far too many fascists in public education. Let’s stop calling them liberals. The definition changed but we still haven’t updated the dictionary yet. Just like 40 years ago the word ‘Gay’ meant happy, the word liberal is nothing near liberal. The founding fathers were Liberals. They believed in smaller less intrusive government. This is the opposite of today’s liberal. They are far closer to Fascist than Liberal. They are not open-minded and in fact they are dogmatic. Let’s call them from here on what they are. The word is Fascists.
http://www.usofearth.com/blog Mike Anthony

Lack of common sense and the real sense that there are far too many fascists in public education. Let’s stop calling them liberals. The definition changed but we still haven’t updated the dictionary yet. Just like 40 years ago the word ‘Gay’ meant happy, the word liberal is nothing near liberal. The founding fathers were Liberals. They believed in smaller less intrusive government. This is the opposite of today’s liberal. They are far closer to Fascist than Liberal. They are not open-minded and in fact they are dogmatic. Let’s call them from here on what they are. The word is Fascists.
GRIM

The dumbest thing I heard was from listening to the radio while driving the company truck: “these ‘no tolerance’ policies should be case by case”. OK, then it’s not “no tolerance”. Then it’s “on a case by case basis”. BUT, this proves once again that the most intolerant people are the ones trying to preach tolerance to everyone else.
GRIM

The dumbest thing I heard was from listening to the radio while driving the company truck: “these ‘no tolerance’ policies should be case by case”. OK, then it’s not “no tolerance”. Then it’s “on a case by case basis”. BUT, this proves once again that the most intolerant people are the ones trying to preach tolerance to everyone else.