The Rubber Band Man's "Pricipal"In yesterday's
Best of the Web, the Journal's James Taranto notes an example of the mindlessness enshrined in most zero-tolerance school policies.
At Liberty Middle School in Orange County, Florida, a 13-year-old student received a 10-day suspension and may be expelled after school officials accused him of assaulting a teacher with a rubber band.
WKMG-TV reports:
Robert Gomez, a seventh-grader at Liberty Middle School, said he picked up a rubber band at school and slipped it on his wrist. Gomez said when his science teacher demanded the rubber band, the student said he tossed it on her desk. After the incident, Gomez received a 10-day suspension for threatening his teacher with what administrators say was a weapon ...I linked to the Liberty Middle School
website and clicked the Administration link. There I noticed that a welcoming statement from the principal, Elisha Gonzalez-Bonnewitz, is entitled "A message from the pricipal [sic]."
Clearly, it's time for President Bush to champion the No Education Administrator Left Behind Act.
