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They took God out, now they have to worry about kid's killing themselves.
Not that I haven't opined about the former before but these are both blown out of perspective and neither has anything to do with the other or it would seem even the topic at hand.
As for the article, for some reason I can't put my finger on exactly, I never imagined you ever reading anything published in the Times.
I'm pretty sure I don't have to explain the danger of 'zero tolerance' policies or of the nanny state virus that kicks in once you allow a freedom or two to get squashed and how it opens the door to all freedoms getting squashed.
Unfortunately, on the other hand, if there is a policy in place that the parents at least are aware of where the kids are not allowed to bring weapons of any sort to school, then the kid should not have brought it to school. The expulsion sucks but that speaks more to the zero tolerance than the rule itself which is intended to protect the students and staff(yes, even from a six year old, especially to protect them from themselves). I wouldn't want a six year old amped up on sugary cereal anywhere near my six year old with a razor blade for instance, would you?
The teacher who used the knife and then reported it? Says alot about the school system in the larger sense. Dumb.
__________________But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles
And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through and with sidelong looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles
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