But looking on the bright side, perhaps we should welcome these multiplying episodes as tutorials about the nature of the regulatory state that swaddles us ever more snuggly with its caring. Nothing surprises after that 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl was labeled a “terroristic threat,” suspended from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation because she talked about shooting herself and others with her Hello Kitty gun that shoots bubbles. It also said the school counsellor is available, presumably to cope with Post-Pastry Trauma Syndrome.īy now, Americans may be numb to such imbecilities committed by the government institutions to which they entrust their children for instruction.
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The all-purpose adjective “appropriate.” The letter said “one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures” and although “no physical threats were made and no one was harmed” the code of student conduct stipulates “appropriate consequences.” The letter, suffused with the therapeutic ethic, suggested that parents help their children “share their feelings” about all this.
While some might enjoy dogpaddling around in this deep philosophic water, Joshua’s school, taking its cue from Hamlet, did not allow its resolve to be “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” More eager to act than to think, the school suspended Joshua and sent a letter to all the pupils’ parents, urging them to discuss the “incident” - which the school includes in the category “classroom disruptions” - with their children “in a manner you deem most appropriate.”Īh, yes. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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