[Ansteorra] just read the link

[Mahee]

Each year I start out the school year with the Stupid People lesson. Why do we have ____ rule...because someone was not smart enough to know not to do ___ so we had to create a rule to stop a stupid person from doing a stupid thing. Sadly that also means that we are not allowed to something that is not stupid, but falls into the same area.
   
  I drive my car the speed that I am comfortable. Strangely it does seem to be around the speed limit. But that limit is there to stop at least slow some of those who do not know their controlled comfort speed and would otherwise exceed it drastically. But sadly also slows that person down whose controlled comfort speed is higher than the posted limit.
   
  Yes, sometime we are giving up freedoms to help keep others safer.
   
  I am one of those who must enforce it in the classroom...and I have dealt with guns, knives, kids beating on the back end of live bullets, .... and I have only taught up to 8th grade.
   
  If we could give one person a rule that only affect them...life would be a lot different, but people would say that that was just not fair. Thus zero tolerance...for all, not just for some.
   
  your servant tasked with teaching the next generation,
  mahee

Cisco Cividanes <engtrktwo at earthlink.net> wrote:
  As fascinating as I find the topic, (and I am enjoying the conversation)

personally, as a relatively recent (class of 97) subject of the public 
school system, I think this is just an example of the true definition of 
"zero tolderance", and that is 'zero thought'. Too bad people like this 
are tasked with teaching some of the next generation with how to think.

Ivo Blackhawk
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