TYT: 9 Year Old Almost Suspended For LEGO Toy w/ Gun? (Bonus: Fire Depts Now Billing Homeowners!)

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Run time: 02:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5IvY0JGiW4   Posted on YouTube: February 06, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 08, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1016

 
Summary: Cenk shares the story of a fourth grader who was . At the end of the video there is a direct link to a which talks about the over prescribing of drugs, zero tolerance policies and much more about modern schools.

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. K&R

Hope we all wake up soon!

[TheWraith]

2. Somebody elsewhere on DU put it perfectly...

As tolerance approaches zero, stupid approaches infinity.

[kjones]

6. That's so nerdy...it just has to be true. haha

Couldn't agree more.

[rusty quoin]

3. I'm the parent of the biggest lego fan in the world.

His little lego guys are armed to the teeth with light sabers, knives, ray guns, swords, axes, and pistols. Come to think of it, lego guys are like Republicans in that way.

I'd better search his backpack and pockets for tiny weapons and avoid a school lockdown.

[pundaint]

4. First they came for my guns, then my toy guns, then my toy's toy gun, then my pictures of guns,

then my gun thought bubble, then my dictionary entry for guns, then bodybuilder's arms...

[pleah]

5. K&R I have first hand experience with that stupid policy.

I am so glad that I took my son out of the system in the grade school years. This is his last year in high school. I can't wait and neither can he.