“The whole purpose of “Zero Tolerance” is so educators in positions of responsibility never have to take any responsibility. “
A male friend recently retired as a 5th grade teacher. He said, “Oh, my goodness. Kids played finger guns all the time, made bang noises and pretended to shoot each other. If we’d played by those rules I’d have sent every kid to the office for suspension. Ridiculous.”
Remember the roadrunner and coyote? Hell, there was bombs and rockets and dynamite all over the place.
Why aren’t Boomers (whoops! They’re even *called* “boomers”! They must be violent!) and Gen-xers blowing things up?