In March, we reported on the outrageous case of a seven-year-old Baltimore, Md. student who, according to a Daily Caller article, was suspended for two days for the "horrendous" act of shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun.
This week's outrage is a follow-up to that story. According to a WashingtonPost.com article this week, the request by the family of the second-grader to have the incident expunged from the child's record was denied by the Anne Arundel County School System.
According to the article, the family's attorney met with school officials after filing an appeal asking that the suspension be reversed or that the child's record be cleared. School officials denied both requests. As the lawyer argued, the child was simply playing, and, "No one was hurt. No one was scared."
The article goes on to note other, equally outrageous cases of "zero-tolerance" rules being applied with zero-common sense that occurred at about the same time. In those cases, children were suspended for pointing fingers "like guns" and for talking about shooting a Hello Kitty "gun" that blows bubbles.
The boy's father said he had hoped for a better outcome. "I guess I expected more of a fair result," he said. "I don't view the punishment and the mark on my son's record as a reasonable reaction to the situation that took place."
These types of ridiculous cases are now all-too common, and the trend is disturbing. As we've said many times before, we all can agree that we want our children to be safe at school, and that reasonable safety measures should be followed. But such overreaching, misapplied standards encroach on our freedom, and in many cases, place an extreme burden on innocent children and their families. This is outrageous and should not be tolerated.
Outrage of the Week
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2024
The wheels are coming off of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun confiscation program (“buyback”).
Monday, August 12, 2024
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has been hard at work embracing and promoting the far-left gun control policies of Kamala Harris, his partner on the Democrat ticket for president.
Monday, August 12, 2024
On August 8, the State Fair of Texas announced that it is changing its weapons policy to prohibit attendees from exercising their Right-to-Carry at the event.
Friday, August 9, 2024
NRA-ILA secured a significant victory today, as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined enforcement of the ATF’s “Pistol Brace Rule” in Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, Inc. v. Garland.
Monday, August 5, 2024
Kamala Harris, the party-installed alternative to Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, is now squarely in the national spotlight.
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