Bob Unruh
Ordinary tools, such as pliers, screwdrivers and wrenches, are “weapons” and so a Chicago school was correct to punish a teacher who brought them to class for a visual aid, according to a new court decision.
The ruling from a federal
court in Illinois technically dismissed a lawsuit brought on behalf of teacher
Douglas Bartlett. He had been suspended without pay for four days “on the
grounds that his use of the tools as visual aids endangered his students,
despite the fact that all potentially hazardous items were kept out of the
students’ reach.”
WND reported a year ago when the case
was filed – and the school’s actions were called political correctness run
amok.
At the time, John Whitehead,
of the Rutherford Institute, which
brought the case on behalf of Bartlett, said, “Education truly suffers when
school administrators exhibit such poor judgment and common sense, especially
when it comes to their zealous misapplication of misguided zero tolerance
policies. However, what makes this case stand out from the rest is that this
latest victim of zero tolerance policies run amok happens to be a veteran
school teacher.”.......Whitehead told WND when the case was filed while zero tolerance policies have been around for years, there is a new movement afoot to take it to a new level where people are being taught to be afraid of anything that remotely resembles a weapon.....To Read More....
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