*Public* Schools

Zero Tolerance Policies: Are the Schools Becoming Police States? by John W. Whitehead

I'm fine with a private establishment setting whatever rules they like. But a public school is not a private establishment. Every single person there is a government employee and is bound by the threat of force to comply with government regulations. And while I believe that the majority of educators are noble and amazing people, some are not. And the problem is the system is set up so that those few have the power to rob every one of our children of their God given rights in the name of the greater good. Public schools ARE part of the state, no matter what any one wants to believe. "Public" means the state gets final say in what goes on. Curriculum, policy, funding; all decided by bureaucrats who wouldn't be caught dead sending their kids anywhere but private school. The state *IS* guns. So I'd definitely agree with this article; our sense of reality is a little skewed if we're more terrified of a kid with an airsoft gun than of grown men with standard issue 9mms on their hips and the law telling them to use them if anyone protests enough.