Weapons in School: Zero Tolerance

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by casimendocina

Yes, Toni Collette was much more corporately dressed in that. That was a very uneven movie. There were some fantastic scenes, but also some really stupid bits in that movie that annoyed me incredibly like the whole dessert vs desert scene.... but we should now probably move this to the movie thread if we're going to continue.

ok let's. I love Australian cinema. More on this movie later.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Excellent link. It brings up the issue of intent and context. If Monster's son had been taunting a kid whose family had been gunned down the week before, probably not protected. But in the absence of any specific circumstances, just drawing a picture of a gun is hardly impeding the school's mission to teach. While the act of drawing, in itself, may have been disruptive, then that is what the charge should be, not invoking the zero tolerance policy for guns.

yes. their existence was offensive to me. I much preferred
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Hey... fixed that for you. a little late for some of us, but hey.