Rectification of the Situation

No real situation to rectify, I just wanted to see that headline in print.

Well, maybe there is. This whole "zero-tolerance" movement that has been going on lately.

I can see having "zero-tolerance" on things like rape, murder, grand theft auto, but to have "zero-tolerance" for things like a butter knife to cut a cake at school, and a teacher threatening to have a child arrested for talking on a cell phone or having a keychain that looks like a little tiny gun?

Dude.

Come on, this is just MADNESS! MADNESS, I tell you!!

But seriously, I was under the mistaken impression that teachers and school administrators had at least a miniscule amount of COMMON-FUCKING-SENSE.

The things that I am reading, that are happening in the name of "zero-tolerance" are so unbelievably absurd they border on parody. Absurd might be too soft, to borrow from an earlier post, they plumb the depths of asinineness and bring things to amazing new lows.

I hate to be cliche but we are rapidly reaching the proverbial "tipping point" we hear about so much lately. In this case I think the "tipping point" is actually an old medieval ox-cart loaded with feces that, when finally "tipped" will land squarely on the heads of the offending teachers and administrators. Or at least I hope so.