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• Zero Tolerance- Toy Recall!

  
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  NL- This recall notice make me more interested in having the product. I certainly wouldn’t return it, if I had it. I guess their tag line, is very true!     May 2013 

This is to inform you of a voluntary product recall involving: SexVoltz Capsules contained in several of the Zero Tolerance Toy ...
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• Zero-tolerance out of control: Pencil leads to boys suspension, while Eagle Scout hit with felony

  
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  Ill be damned if (Lord willing) I get blessed with children and I put them in a government-run school.Theyre not here yet.  But I already love them too much than to subject them to the insanity of a modern public school.  And few things exemplify that madness more than do zero-tolerance policies.(Hey, I ran for ...
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• Zero Tolerance Policies Reach A New Low

  
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  Suspending a student because he held his pencil like a gun? Any teacher that dumb shouldn’t be allowed near children, in case (s)he infects them with that level of stupidity. Filed under: Lunacy Tagged: Education , Guns , Stupidity , Teachers , Zero Tolerance
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• When is a pencil a gun? Here we go again....

  
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  "Its sad when schools cant tell toys from terrorists." So writes Kerry Dougherty in todays Virginian-Pilot . She added: Isnt it fun having the whole country chortling over news leaked out of our little corner of the world? Were a national punch line again, and this time we cant blame Pat Robertson or PETA. ...
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• Excuse me for breaking my no “F” Word Rule, but, How in the Blue Hell did Fucking Morons like this ever get jobs working anywhere near children?

  
  The Daley Gator — Authority: 679
  I you hear a loud BANG while reading this, that is just my head exploding from the sheer stupidity of “zero tolerance” In the latest case of a youth being punished for what used to be considered innocuous child’s play, a second grader at Driver Elementary in Virginia has been suspended for two days for [...]
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• Boy Pretending to Be a Marine Suspended from School for Pencil Gun

  
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  The father of a second grader from Suffolk, Virginia, who was suspended for making "gun noises" while pointing a pencil at another student says the schools zero tolerance policy on weapons lacks common sense. Read more...        
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• Second Grader Suspended Over A Pencil

  
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  Suffolk, VA – A Suffolk school district has suspended a second grader over a pencil. Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall was seen playing with another student in his class Friday at Driver Elementary School. The teacher instructed the two to stop pointing their pencils at one another. They complied. After the ...
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• Crisis Averted! Second Grader Suspended After Pointing a Pencil Like a Gun, Going “Phew! Phew!”

  
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  This, was a close one: Boy who held pencil like gun suspended A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises. Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing with another student in class Friday, when the teacher at Driver Elementary asked them ...
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• This is the century for women and gender equality

  
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  Lakshmi Puri – UN Women – Monday, 06 May (originally published 02 May) A big step was taken at the United Nations in March when governments adopted an historic agreement in the Commission on the Status of Women to prevent and end violence against women and girls. The agreement, which breaks new ground with its ...
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• Liberty Univ. Offers Scholarship to Eagle Scout Facing Gun Charges

  
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  Good for Liberty. This kid got a raw deal for trying to do the right thing, again demonstrating the complete ignorance of common sense exercised by school administrators. When he was overheard telling his mother to come and take home the unloaded shotgun he accidentally left in his truck (because he knew he wasn’t ...
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• High School Student Expelled for Unloaded Gun Forgotten In Trunk

  
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  Folks — Here you go. This is just sort of an hors d’oeuvre (world’s hardest word to spell) for the day: Your daily dose of Zero Tolerance insanity WITH a dash of hope at the end! According to WRAL in North Carolina: PRINCETON, N.C. — The Princeton High School community is rallying around a student who was ...
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• Teen Girl Arrested and Expelled for Failed Science Project

  
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  Sixteen-year-old Kiera Wilmot was an exemplary student at Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida. With her good grades and perfect behavior record, she was every teacher’s dream student. She never got in trouble. Now she has been labeled a criminal for life, all because of a failed science project. On Monday, April ...
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• Daily Blend: 05/01/13

  
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  Kiera Wilmot How the hell can it be this hot this early in the year? This can’t bode well. Animal liberation activists in Milan, Italy, heroically sabotage years’ worth of mental health research by releasing scared and helpless lab animals that cannot survive on their own. (via Pharyngula ) Who ...
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• Yet, more nutty zero tolerance over guns

  
  John Lott's Website — Authority: 505
  From Princeton, NC (WTVD Raleigh-Durham, NC): A Johnston County high school student has been expelled for bringing a gun onto school property, but the schools student body is coming to his defense. David "Cole" Withrow is a senior at Princeton High School. He was set to graduate in just a few weeks, until his ...
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• High School Student’s Science Experiment Explodes. Now She’s Being Tried as an Adult

  
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  Readers: This is a story about an unpredictable scientific reaction — and an all too predictable school over-reaction. According to the Miami New Times blog : Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn’t the kind of kid you’d expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled ...
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• Zero tolerance destroys promising students life: Science experiment "explosion" pops top off container creates smoke, girl arrested and expelled

  
  John Lott's Website — Authority: 505
  The principal thought that nothing was intentional and that no harm was done.  So why didnt he prevent her from being arrested?  Regulations.  " Wilmot was arrested Monday morning and charged with possession/discharge of a weapon on school property and discharging a destructive device."  The "weapon" "caused the ...
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• MUSCLES ARE A GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR NEWS! TURN YOUR BONERS ON, LADIES!

  
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  Its Wednesday morning. Nothing good can come of that. Sure, comic books come out today, but aside from that today is just the piece of shit crammed in the middle of the week to remind us that not yet time to dive in to Friday nights requisite drunken haze, and its far too early to start getting excited about a new ...
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• Zero Tolerance Patrol: Boy Suspended from School for Bringing Tiny Knife on Camping Trip

  
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  It seems there is no longer any common sense; only strict adherence to an inflexible set of idiotic rules. A 10-year-old California boy was suspended and threatened with expulsion after he brought a Swiss Army Knife on a week-long school school camping trip. Tony Bandermann told Fox News that his son Braden was on a ...
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• Bonsai Parenting

  
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  Hi Folks! My last two posts were about the 10-year-old boy not allowed to bring his pen knife on a nature trip  as well as   the ridiculous rules for adopting a pet that now sometimes include things like, “Pet needs one parent home at all times,” and, “Cat cannot be kept as a mouser in a barn.” One guy ...
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• Disqualified from Science Fair for Experiment Using Airsoft Gun

  
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  Hi Readers —   Here’s an example of our “Do something — anything!” school safety culture at work.  Personally, I’d never heard of airsoft guns.  When I Googled them, they looked totally scary and far too realistic for my tastes. BUT they are neither lethal nor, where this family lives, illegal. And, as ...
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