In Philedelphia, the city that gave us our Consitution, a 10 year old from Thomas Holme Elementary School was handcuffed by police, thrown into the blood and urine stained paddywagon and dragged off to the police station (without first notifying her mother). What did she do? Did she bring a gun to school? Threaten to blow up the place? Attack a teacher? No. She had a pair scissors in her backpack.

Overreactions like this have become the norm in the Government run school system. Cries of “zero tolerance” are heard when mistakes like these are made. But what are they teaching the kids? When they expell kids for having a 1″ GI Joe gun, or a folded piece of papar they are teaching them that there are no distinctions between being a criminal or an innocent kid, and they are destroying the child’s trust in authority.