More educational idiocy on parade.
Patrick Halpin called police Wednesday to say there were weapons on school property because teachers at the Grace Breckwedel Middle School had lighters in the building.
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Really? I wouldn’t be too sure about that. If school policy prohibits lighters for EVERYONE (kids and teachers) then this is a weak claim.
In any event. The child and his father need further indoctrination into the wonderfulness of a zero tolerance school policy.
(barf)
This story neglects to mention the more serious and widespread threat to our schools. Sticks! On nearly every schoolyard in America, one can find these tools of Satan lurking, which can be rubbed together by children to spark violent conflagrations!
What’s even more devious, is that sticks can be easily sharpened on the asphalt of the outdoor basketball courts to fashion deadly weapons. Even without sharpening, a heavy, blunt stick, can easily crush the delicate skulls of our innocents. Clearly sticks are a most heinous violation of our precious zero-tolerance policies and must be expunged from our schools forthwith!
Guess what, TSA doesn’t consider lighters as weapons now. Why would NJ schools? Oh yeah, whatever happened to common sense? Have we arrived at zero tolerance for common sense now?
"...Jamesburg Police Chief Martin Horvath says he believes the school took appropriate action..."
That part from the article is especially unfortunate.
Police Chief Horvath is yet another statist automaton.
As a little boy in elementary school I carried a Boy Scout (Cub Scout?) knife and a Zippo lighter as part of my EDC.
I’m actually an alumnae of said institution! It was at that time a junior high.
Last week my 11th grade son in government school asked to borrow my grill lighter. His Chemistry teacher asked the students in the AP class to each bring in a lighter for a lab because the school could not afford it due to budget cuts. I asked him if he will get in trouble for bringing a banned item to school; his response was the teacher told them to be sure to hide it so they don’t get into trouble...
Well, if you flick a lighter, and you happen to have one of those old time bombs, the black ones with the fuse, you could light the bomb with the lighter.
Q.E.D.
Have you ever been hit with a book? OUCH!
A weapon? Obviously the left has lost its collective mind.
I remember formulating nitrogen tri-iodide crystals in Jr. High School and scattering them in the hallway before class change. Good times! Countless hours were also wasted collecting dead batteries and salvaging them for the zinc. We would dissolve the zinc in Muriatic acid to produce hydrogen gas which we would capture in balloons. We would tie off the balloon with a string which we would then set on fire and release. The resulting fireballs were glorious. To this day, I don’t know why we hated the planet so much. If people get their panties in a twist over a lighter, I’m sure if a kid did anything that was remotely scientific, they would live out their days in a Homeland Security compound. Remember Kids! Science is Magic Made Dangerous!
Another reason why "Cops Cause Crime": Blind and deaf bureaucratic, institutional loyalty replaces common sense.
Wonder how soon expelling gas will be considered a weapon?
The time has come to stop tolerating incompetent school administrators and teachers.
We must take back the school boards, and kick-out unions, and NEA.
Maybe they were afraid he was going to burn a Koran.
More about this here http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/atomictoys/GilbertU238Lab.htm