Sunday, April 28, 2013

Today's Smoldering Stoopid: 5th Grader on Camping Trip causes exactly no harm with a Swiss Army Knife. .

There's one thing you CAN rely on California for:  Industrial-strength Stoopid in warehouse quantities.

Today's Burning Stoopid Award goes to the Cupertino Union School District, in Cupertino, California.  Apparently, they hold a week-long nature camp in the Marin Headlands, north of San Francisco. 

Which brings us to the story of young Braden Bannerman.  A fifth-grader growing up in the heart of Silicon Valley, on this week-long voyage into Nature.  And amongst the items he packed for this trip, was a simple Swiss Army Knife.  Yep.  The FIRST Multi-tool, LONG pre-dating the Leatherman.

I'm sure you can guess what happened next.  A teacher saw that Braden had, in his possession, the dreaded and deadly Swiss Army Knife.   A Conniption was had.  Authorities were notified.  Thank God he also didn't have a lighter, he might have . . . . .  MacGyvered something, and we just can't have that. . .

They called his parents, claiming he had a "weapon", and needed to be suspended, or possibly even expelled.

But it gets better.  Seems, his father was on a business trip, ~100 miles away, and was demanded to drive back, pick up his son for a day, and after the day's suspension, drive back and drop him off.   Minus, of course, the High-Capacity Assault Swiss Army Knife of Mass Destruction. . .

Bannerman, Senior, basically  told the School District to stick their demand where the sun don't shine.  Get a kid in trouble for carrying a Swiss Army Knife on a CAMPING trip ??   I mean, what were they smok- - -   nevermind, it's California, we know what was being smoked. . .

Yes, friends, again, we heap scorn on the idiotic idea of "Zero Tolerance".  Especially zero-tolerance of things that AREN'T weapons.  There have been numerous examples lately.   Like the Cupcakes decorated with Toy Soldiers confiscated by a Michigan Elementary School. . .   Or that evil, Assault Pop-Tart in Maryland.  Or that Marine Corps T-shirt that was deemed "problematical" because it had crossed images of rifles on it. . .

Mind you, "zero tolerance" was originally a decent, if not perfect idea.  But today's hyper-paranoia claiming that Toy Soldiers were "weapons of war",  or a Marine Corps T-shirt was inciting violence, are beyond idiotic, and have ventured into a place beyond judgement and intelligence.  A place devoid of logic.  A zone we call. . . .  Teh Burning Stoopid.









http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/26/fifth-grader-suspended-at-overnight-nature-camp-for-bringing-swiss-army-knife/
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And today's runner-up: the City of Philadelphia, which has decided to fund the sex-change operations of its' employees.  Because for a nearly bankrupt city, in the midst of economic hard-times, societal strife and international trouble, this is the prevailing issue of our day and age.  Riiiiiiiiight. . . .

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/philly-nears-bankruptcy-decides-to-cover-sex-changes-for-city-workers/


1 comment:

  1. By contrast, in the 70's, my 8th grade class went on a camping trip, and we were not merely allowed, but TOLD to bring a knife! And that was at a QUAKER school!

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