Zero Tolerance Stupidity Watch

An outstanding high school student with a 3.5 GPA has been suspended and faces expulsion for having wooden drill rifles in her car. The student is a member of the Douglas County Young Marines near Denver, and had three mock rifles made of wood and duct tape in her car in preparation for an upcoming drill competition.

You can’t truly fault the school board in this case, because the law is specifically written to tie their hands and mandate expulsion even in the case of “a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or a firearm facsimile that could reasonably be mistaken for an actual firearm."

This is yet another case of zero tolerance gone completely beserk. When have you ever heard of zero tolerance actually working properly? No, it usually winds up with an honor student being expelled for giving another student an aspirin or a mydol, or a case similar to this one.

Here’s hoping the state representatives can recognize their own stupidity long enough to right this wrong and allow this A student to graduate with her class.