Post by Woody Williams on Dec 11, 2006 18:49:52 GMT -5
How silly can "zero tolerance" get?
Knight Jousted From Yearbook
Sunday, December 10, 2006
By Scott Norvell
East Bay Newspapers says school officials at a high school in Rhode Island have rejected a student's personalized senior picture because he is dressed as a knight and carrying a broadsword.
Patrick Agin of Portsmouth High School participates with his family in the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group that re-enacts medieval European traditions. "To reflect his passion about re-enactment and his participation with the SCA, Patrick chose to sit for his senior picture in costume, specifically, chain mail and a sword," said his mother.
But principal Robert Littlefield said Agin must crop the sword from the picture, get a new one or go without having his picture in the yearbook altogether. The reason? The picture violates the school's zero-tolerance policy on weapons. Littlefield says students shouldn't show up in the yearbook bearing any sort of arms, even 800-year-old old ones.
Knight Jousted From Yearbook
Sunday, December 10, 2006
By Scott Norvell
East Bay Newspapers says school officials at a high school in Rhode Island have rejected a student's personalized senior picture because he is dressed as a knight and carrying a broadsword.
Patrick Agin of Portsmouth High School participates with his family in the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group that re-enacts medieval European traditions. "To reflect his passion about re-enactment and his participation with the SCA, Patrick chose to sit for his senior picture in costume, specifically, chain mail and a sword," said his mother.
But principal Robert Littlefield said Agin must crop the sword from the picture, get a new one or go without having his picture in the yearbook altogether. The reason? The picture violates the school's zero-tolerance policy on weapons. Littlefield says students shouldn't show up in the yearbook bearing any sort of arms, even 800-year-old old ones.
