Giving a six-year-old a clasp knife is pretty stupid to begin with, even when it also contains a fork and a spoon. But suspending him from school (and making him do 45 days in the district’s reform school as a further punishment) because he brought it to the cafeteria to show off and eat with is, well, about what you can expect these days from the Nanny State and its public school minions. They’re experts in making Everests out of ant hills. No wonder school vouchers are so popular.
Via Instapundit. And Best of The Web Today, which notes that the 45 days is "more time than Roman Polanski initially spent in captivity for raping a 13-year-old girl.
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