My take is that public school administrators and teachers have lost or are loosing all ability to make discretionary calls about almost everything. If I were to trace the genesis of ?zero tolerance? I?m positive I?d find a mandate that emanates from far beyond a district board, county or even State level. What may look just like a case of common sense gone awry is probably driven by some very harsh and narrow restrictions that come from on high. And I?m thinking woe to the administrator or teacher who gets creative or uses a bit of common sense on an issue as hot as this one. The news will be very bad for sure, no doubt about it. Around here gun safety is taught at the town hall and out at the range. I don?t recall any of that ever being in the public school.
Not all that long ago it was not unusual to see rifles/ shotguns in a rack mounted in a jeep or other 4X4 and parked in the High School parking lot. Yikes, these days a sight like that would probably cause the Nevada Guard to mount-up, surround the school and have choppers by the score hovering about. That along with every County Mounty around running their gum ball machines and doing a panic mouse deal.
Scamp
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