Under Proposed Bill, Students Who Form Finger In Shape Of Gun Would Not Be Suspended

[The Straight Story]

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Zero tolerance for zero tolerance. That’s how one lawmaker feels about young children being suspended from school for forming their finger or food in the shape of a gun.

As Gigi Barnett explains, he has a bill designed to keep students in class if they’re caught.

State Senator J.B. Jennings says he does not intend for this bill to be a part of the growing gun debate in Maryland, but he does say he wants it to bring some common sense discipline to state schools.

Anne Arundel County school leaders suspended 7-year-old Joshua Welch last week for eating a pastry in the shape of a gun.

“When you compare the caliber of the offense to the caliber of the punishment, they don’t match up,” the boy’s father said.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/03/08/so-called-pastry-bill-would-protect-young-children-who-form-finger-food-in-shape-of-gun/

[RKP5637]

1. US = United Stress! The nation that ensure stress is always part of your daily life. We are a

nation IMO that overreacts to many things, and then under-reacts to others.

[pipoman]

2. Zero tolerance for "Zero tolerance"..

[The Straight Story]

3. Yeah, maybe some things will finally change

and these failed policies will go by the wayside and common sense will creep back into our schools.

[alp227]

4. Jennings is a Republican. Rare time we can agree with a bill introduced by one.

We've seen way too many examples of how "Zero Tolerance" is abused. Ana Kasparian has done many stories about ZT on The Young Turks and often comments against it.

[backscatter712]

5. Good! Zero-tolerance and absolute suppression of gun-imagery is weapons-grade stupid!

Suspensions for gun-gestures are harmful to kids, plain and simple.

Zero-tolerance needs to fucking die.

[Demo_Chris]

6. Good. n/t

[Posteritatis]

8. It is spectacularly depressing that this sort of thing requires legislation

If that's what it takes to perform a partial stupidbullshitectomy on school disciplinary policies then I'm all for it, but I don't want to be all for having to codify basic common sense in law because we should be better than that in the first place.