{"id":5545,"date":"2009-10-13T07:43:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:00:08","slug":"stupid-school-administrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5545","title":{"rendered":"Stupid School Administrators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six-year-old Cub scout brings scout knife\/fork\/spoon doodad to school…<\/p>\n

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Six-year-old Zachary Christie was so excited to become a Cub Scout that he brought his camping utensil to school. The tool serves as a spoon, a fork and a knife, and Zachary wanted to use it at lunch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…and gets treated as a terrorist (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

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What Zachary didn’t know was that the gizmo violated his school’s zero-tolerance policy on weapons<\/strong>. And now the Christina School District in Newark, Del., has suspended the first grader and ordered him to attend the district’s reform school for 45 days<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been through<\/a> this sort of self-lobotomized administrative cretinism<\/a> myself.
\nQuestion: \u00a0How many intelligence and ethics tests does one have to\u00a0flunk\u00a0<\/em>to be a school administrator these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six-year-old Cub scout brings scout knife\/fork\/spoon doodad to school… Six-year-old Zachary Christie was so excited to become a Cub Scout that he brought his camping utensil to school. The tool serves as a spoon, a fork and a knife, and Zachary wanted to use it at lunch. …and gets treated as a terrorist (emphasis added). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}