Clock Boy

[GMDino]

(11-24-2015, 12:34 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Honestly, it's not that elaborate.  Schools tend to overreact in the current climate.  I recall a case in which a grade school kid, 3rd graded iirc, was suspended for drawing a picture of a marine killing a Taliban.  Or there's the case of the kid being suspended for using their fingers as pretend guns.  Post columbine, let alone post sandy hook, any kid bringing something to school that resembles a bomb is guaranteed to elicit a heavy handed response.  Also, again iirc, a teacher from a previous class specifically told this kid not to show the "clock" to anyone else because he knew it could be viewed as an explosive device.  Again, the deeper you dig on this family the more this whole thing stinks like a sack of skunk assholes.

I agree.  These "zero tolerance" policies were lazy and meant to make the decisions easy and instead has brought dumb situations like the ones you mentioned.