I realize we need rules and laws, but we must use wise judgment and common sense when applying them.
As I am sure most of you have heard about or read over the last few days, a six year old boy was facing 45 days in reform school for taking a Cub Scout camping utensil to school. He was excited to have it and enjoyed using it on camp outs. The camping utensil apparently fell out of his back pack and was seen by a supervisor at his school. Oh my goodness. Grab the handcuffs.
Due to the no tolerance rule in place the school had no other choice but to suspend him and send him off to reform.
The school board apparently had enough protest that little Zachary won’t be off to reform school, but may still have to visit the guidance counselor at school. Way to go parents.
Amazing, truly amazing. Teenagers can somehow show up in the streets of Chicago with boards and their own feet and kill an innocent boy, all the while surrounded by desensitized teenagers and yet we want to suspend an innocent six year old for a cub scout utensil. Hmm. Is that common sense? What a messed up, political correct corrupted country we are becoming.
Let’s see what common sense might have looked like. “Zachary, I am so sorry, but I will have to hold on to your pocket utensil kit until I can talk to your parents and hand it over to them. We can’t allow items like that at school. It is our policy, so that we can try to keep all of you safe.” Pretty simple. Pretty straight forward.
We truly need to focus on the important. Politically correct, no tolerance rhetoric has overtaken what God gave us—BRAINS!!!
