Zero Tolerance Strikes Near Home

Cowboy-style cap gun gets 5-year-old suspended from school in Calvert County

As you may or may not be aware, we live in Calvert County, Maryland, and our children, now grown and gone, were educated in the Calvert County schools.

A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school, according to his family and a lawyer.

The child was questioned for more than two hours before his mother was called, she said, adding that he uncharacteristically wet his pants during the episode. The boy is 5 — “all bugs and frogs and cowboys,” his mother said.

Except for the orange tip, it looks like the ones I played with

A two hour interrogation of a 5 year old, to find out what motivated him to sneak a toy to school?  Are they insane?  And do to it to the point that the boys wets his pants?  Why not just waterboard him and get the information they want? If they haven't caused some form of psychological trauma, I would be very surprised. The parents should consider a suit, if they can find any grounds at all. I'd gladly pay my small portion of the district's losses.  Alas, they probably won't, because the parents are part of the system.

The child’s mother is a high school teacher in Calvert who said she strongly supports the school system and loves the teachers at her son’s school. She and her husband, who coaches youth sports, are active community volunteers.

For the family, a major concern is the long period the 5-year-old was questioned without parental guidance or support. His sister was questioned, too, she said.

I don't think it would do her career much good to sue her superiors, do you?

Hat tip to Hot Air.