Oh AND why distract us with this non-news item (little boys are making guns out of waffles, paper, popsicle sticks, Legos, etc. the world over) instead of focusing on interviewing the Benghazi survivors?
A question: Why do we not know the names of the teachers and administrators involved in these incidents of insanity? In each case it is some unnamed, anonymous teacher and/or administrator responsible for these acts. Why are their names not published? The students names often become part of the public record, even though they are children ... so why not the “adults”? I think the ridicule they would receive would go a long way to making such stupidity a thing of the past ...
“5-year-old Pennsylvania girl was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation”
Me thinks they are evaluating the wrong people............
Punishing a child for pop tart nibbled to form a gun outline or for cupcakes with toy green army men are just two examples of this kind of agenda insanity.
Last year, a little town in western Oklahoma ticketed ($2500) a child age 3 for peeing in his front yard.
These kinds of stupidity can be cured, over time, by turning the Alinsky Rules for Radicals back on those agenda pushers. Especially Rule 11 [Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.], when used with Rule 5 [Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.]
That Piedmont peeing situation caused a mass of emails and phone calls to the City Council and the Mayor, ridiculing them and pointing out to them that they had managed to become the laughingstock of the nation.
Guess what. Within 24 hours, the mayor was under attack by some of her own city council members for her sheer stupidity in allowing the incident to fester and gain national attention. After all, she was the one responsible for the police and the officer to issued the ticket to the 3-year-old. The ticket was rescinded and the city issued an apology to the parent and child.
Similar actions can be taken whenever a school official, for example, tries to use ‘zero tolerance’ to punish a child for typical child behavior.
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
In these cases, the target is the school officials who revealed their stupidity.
Once they are identified, apply
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Ridicule them in emails, in letters to the editors, in phone calls to their school boards, city officials, state officials, etc.
Do this enough and it will quickly put an end to children being punished for cupcakes and pop tarts.
The perpetrators of these kinds of attacks on children are like cockroaches — they don't like the light of ridicule being shown on them.
"zero tolerance attitudes are mind numbing and doing more damage than good"
How to anger the zero-tolerance folks.. try to ban anything resembling a hammer from our public schools..