There is a dearth of common sense in our society today, and one of the best places it's demonstrated (besides at TSA checkpoints) is our schools.

Fifty years ago, it wasn't uncommon for school rifle team members to bring their rifles to school in the bus. Today, if kids bring a single aspirin to school, they are ejected from school. Are our kids safer today in schools than they were 50 years ago? Somehow I don't think so.

We took the paddling out of schools and substituted a "time out" in its place, along with millions of scripts for drugs for our kids. While the do-gooders feel good and righteous, a rational person simply can't say our kids are better off today than they were fifty years ago.

What do we have for the "modern" way of schooling, ranging from the Zero Tolerance of Common Sense to the time outs and so-called Alternative schools? We've got outrageous rates of kids dropping out and declining test scores compared to foreign students.

Yes, this strip search went "overboard". I hope this young woman will be nicely taken care of in her suit against everyone involved in this incident.

It wouldn't hurt to pull the professional licenses of the personnel involved as well as they clearly have no common sense and don't belong in the classroom.

Strip searching a girl for ibuprofen? Nitwits.

-- Joe

Posted by on June 29, 2009 at 10:35 AM Suggest Removal