#310 Don't Forget to Apply Some Common Sense

Curiously Stupid

In Birmingham, Alabama, one elementary school girl has been suspended for giving pills to some of her school mates and three other girls have been suspended for taking them. The pills were Altoids breath mints.

Of course, this is a ridiculous over-reaction and application of a too narrowly defined No-Tolerance Policy. It amazes me that a school official would pursue this suspension once the fact that the pills were breath mints came to light. But, as sometimes happens, someone got their nose bent out of shape, maybe the girl said something the authority figure thought was rude or whatever so they were going to make an example of the girl. Who knows but the end result is a gross over-reaction by a ruleatarian.

Rule #310 is Don't Forget to Apply Some Common Sense