Yeah, Yeah, Futile, I Get It!

I've resisted linking to articles on events and news reports, and truthfully, I don't have any skill in this coding department. Still, this little story has been bothering me for days, though I have no special fondness for children. Okay, I can handle them one at a time, but not in groups. Anyway, my problems aside, the online news has been peppered with stories like this one with disturbing regularity:

Pa. Police Apologize for Scissors Arrest
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1204/194223.html

The common theme is that adults have lost their collective mind since September 11th, and Americans are visiting on their children a plague called "Act Your Age While I Act Like A Big Baby." This Zero Tolerance crap is just that, and it's about time rulemakers and legislators got the point already. When little girls are arrested, cuffed and taken downtown for taking school supplies to school, we need to GET A GRIP. Is there some reason a rational person couldn't have said, "Sweetie, the grownups here are complete spazzes and we have scissors, so please leave yours home, okay?" No, instead we now have at least one child who's learned she can't trust her teachers or the police and that her school system could punish her for virtually ANYTHING AT RANDOM (don't give me that "No, no, just this one particular crime" nonsense; we are talking about the mind of a child). You can also bet your last dollar that all the children at that school learned something this past week, and it wasn't that we as adults have their best interests at heart.

posted by Tata yesterday, reconstituted today when it went POOF!