Saturday, May 27, 2006

Zero-tolerance watch

The PC Police strikes again: Sharing coffee-laced chewing gum is BAAAD!

3 comments:

The Darkroom said...

>>"What if the gum had been given to a student with a heart condition?"
Or with a gum allergy that would have caused her to spontaneously decapitate ? gringos locos.

Tecumseh said...

Three days late, Taranto picks this up:

Zero-Tolerance Watch

"A middle school student was suspended for three days for sharing chewing gum because it contained caffeine," the Associated Press reports from Lower Burrell, Pa.:

The girl, whose name and age were not released, gave another Huston Middle School student Jolt gum. The gum is "a stimulant that has no other redeeming quality," said Amy Palermo, schools superintendent.

Hey, the stuff has caffeine. If that isn't a redeeming quality, we don't know what one is.

Arelcao Akleos said...

What is it with school teachers here, in Yankeeland, and their quest to prove there is no such thing as bounded idiocy??