I assume, since this is a zero-tolerance policy, that pictures of guns being used in wars are torn out of history books. Can’t be too careful.
Christan Morales said her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures. But the school banned the hat because it ran afoul of the district’s zero-tolerance weapons policy. Why? The toy soldiers were carrying tiny guns.
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Morales’ 8-year-old son, David, had been assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would meet their pen pals from another school. She and her son came up with an idea to add patriotic decorations to a camouflage hat. Earlier this week, after the hat was banned, the principal at the Tiogue School in Coventry told the family that the hat would be fine if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn’t have any, according to Superintendent Kenneth R. Di Pietro.
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On Thursday, Di Pietro and the principal met with the retired commander of the Rhode Island National Guard, at the commander’s request. Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio praised the school system for supporting the military in the past, including with a junior ROTC program. But he said he disagreed with the decision to ban the hat and hoped it offered a chance for the school to review its policies.“The American soldier is armed. That’s why they’re called the armed forces,” he said. “If you’re going to portray it any other way, you miss the point.”
He said he intends to give David a medal to express veterans’ appreciation that he would pay tribute to their service.
At least he wasn’t suspended/expelled!
That medal will mean a lot more to the kid than any approval from the principal.
Bravo to Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio, who makes the school officials look like the idiots they are.
The school must be run by Steven Spielburg.
More proof that liberalism is a mental disease.
Aaaah, the PC crowd hard at work pussyfying America.
This is as stupid as some of those crazy muslims.
Remember that Muslim woman in England that sued her employer because someone had a little piggy bank on their desk? She claimed that as a muslim she was offended by the piggy bank.
PC Idiocy is not liberal, IMHO.
Zero Tolerance = Zero Thought.
#7 – You don’t think libs lead the “PC charge”? Um, you need to get out of the basement at LEAST once every 20 years…
Hollywood fills it’s movies with the offensive objects. Where are the liberals when it comes to THOSE guns?
Oh well. Another great example of how fucked up our society is…
Anon – so I guess all conservatives are racist corporate shills?
There’s enough stupidity on both sides. Rabid partisanship accomplishes nothing.
tcc3 said, “Anon – so I guess all conservatives are racist corporate shills?”
Only in the eyes of the PC lib crowd. Thanks for making my point.
More Lib PC insanity: http://tinyurl.com/2d68vss
So your point was that you’re a stereotyping hypocritical idiot?
I’m glad were on the same page, then.
# 6 yankinwaoz said, “She claimed that as a muslim she was offended by the piggy bank.”
I missed that story, Yankin. I hope she lost the lawsuit. In any case, I thought you might find it interesting that in 2004 (?) I went to the newly reopened city zoo in Kabul. It was in terrible shape but a couple of NGOs were helping to restore it and to care for what animals remained.
I don’t want to make this a long travelogue so I’ll get right to the point: Shortly after entering you hit the lion cages. I think there were three bored, scrawny African lions. Right next door there were four or five pigs. Really. I’m not talkin’ wild boars, here. I’m talkin’ bacon on the hoof. But don’t worry. The public was well protected from the swine by a large moat and a deep enclosure.
# 12 Anon Thanks for the link. Missed that one. Though I grew up in the Bible Belt, religion never caught on with me. When will these idjits learn the Constitution promises freedom OF religion including the right to be a non-believer. Nowhere I recall does it promise freed FROM religion.
#15 Yep. Most libs I’ve talked to are really clueless as to what the 1st Amend is and, what it is not.
#15: Unfortunately, it was something they forgot to add.
Sadly for morns like Anon and his ilk, if you think you understand the constitution by ONLY reading the constitution, IF YOU EVEN DO THAT RATHER THAN SOME HATE GROUPS BUMPER STICKER, then you should know that you MUST READ and think about 200 plus years of Supreme Court interpretation.
Should you ever get around to reading anything more than bumper stickers, you will find the supreme court directly ruled that freedom of religion did also mean freedom from religion.
What you morons really don’t get is that this wall of separation is for religions own good. It allows religion to prosper without the taint of government involvement. You asstards are so simple minded you think your religious freedom includes using the power of the state to coerce everyone else to believe just as you do.
Retarded anti freedom jerk offs.
Uncle Dave said, “#15: Unfortunately, it was something they forgot to add.”
Could be. However, that’s what the Amendment process is for. Some libs think that the SCotUS is empowered in the Constitution to rewrite that doc. That’s what illiteracy does for one. I think they call it “random intent” as opposed to original intent…
Anon==and your alternative to a Sup Ct interpreting the constitution is what? The implication is you think any law passed by Congress should be enforced as written by the police.
Is that your position?