Suspended! For This???

I don’t like to write up nooze stories on the Sabbath day; but there are some outrages that simply should not be allowed to pass without comment. Like this one:

Watch: 3 Cop Cars Summoned, Student Suspended After Asking Admin Why American Flag Isn’t in Classrooms – Report

Student goes to school board meeting and asks why there are no American flags in any of his high school’s classrooms–although the state code requires it.

Rather than answer him, the board summons the police. Three cop cars come zooming down on the board meeting.

Three? They needed three cop cars to arrest some kid for asking a question? Is this a police force with nothing better to do? Or did we slip through a hole in space-time and wind up in the old Soviet Union?

Oh–and since the incident, now they have flags in the classroom.

No question about it: “public education” has got to go. And the town’s police chief ought to be fired for allowing his resources to be frittered away so frivolously.

You do NOT arrest people–with three squad cars no less–for asking a question at a public meeting. 

Everyone responsible for this ridiculous incident must be publicly punished.

‘Boy, 13, Jailed for Burping’ (2016)

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The kid burped! Quick, call the cops!

(We still haven’t recovered from five disastrous weeks of intermittent internet access, and viewership here has subsided to 2016 levels. So we might as well run a post from 2016, too. It’s a kind of time travel.)

It’s always just about impossible to decide which was the most outrageous public education story for any given year. But this one would certainly be up there.

Boy, 13, Jailed for… Burping

That year, in Albuquerque, saw police–had they nothing better to do?–bust a 13-year-old boy and throw him in jail for… burping in class. Yes, idiotic “school officials” who couldn’t deal with a kid being silly called the police. And the police came.

What kind of lesson does that teach? Go ahead, pick one.

The government has too much of our money and they spend it foolishly, if not insanely.