[Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock

[Zippster]

Those zero tolerance policies are shameful IMO.  They’ve replaced reasoned judgements by what should be the responsible
people in charge.  It’s a symptom of our “something must be done about every problem that occurs, we can perfect
the world with policies and laws society”.    Gone are the days I suppose when responsible people made their used their
best judgement and we lived with the results.

Few want to be responsible anymore, and no one wants to accept that bad things happen in life, and that past a certain
reasonable level our attempts to stop them from happening are filled with diminishing returns and are a general damper
on the free lives we want to be able to live.

Ahh well, such is life, and societal pendulums will continue to swing as they always have…   (rant mode off)

- Ed


> On Sep 17, 2015, at 12:13 PM, K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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> But we are talking about a 14 year old kid trying to impress his new teacher. Not exactly an age group motivated by logic and proper reasoning. We hire adults to apply the proper reasoning and logic to a situation. Those adults have replaced that proper reasoning and logic with a butt-covering, pass-the-buck policy called zero-tolerance.
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> I also firmly believe the response to a request to bring his device to school would have been a definite no and probably a visit from the police. Nobody wants to be the school administrator who overlooked a potential red-flag. We're going to keep seeing more and more of this.
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> When I was in school the device would have been kept for the day and returned to the kid at the end of day with a reminder to not bring it on school grounds again. This was the policy for everything from yo-yo's to pocket knives to sling-shots. Worked really well for a whole lot of generations. Perhaps we've moved too far beyond that simple solution.
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> Yeah the kid should have known better. But at the end of the day he's just a kid. He knows now.
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