The Herald-News, from Joliet Illinois, recently posted a story about a middle school student who got in trouble for reporting a gun on campus.

Seems Ryan Morgan heard a rumor about there being a gun in the boy’s restroom. He checked it out and found a pellet gun in the garbage there. So, being a good student, he put it in his pocket and took it to the assistant principal to turn it in. And what thanks did he get? He got expelled!

Audrey Morgan said her son tried to do the “right thing.” The couple asked the board to give their son a 10-day suspension instead of sending him to an alternative school.

The school board’s lawyer said that the administrators were “bound by state law” to recommend expulsion to the board, but after the outcry following his parent’s talking with the media, they changed their minds and decided to just force him to be home schooled instead.

So it’s not “expulsion,” it’s “forced home schooling.” Semantics??

[tags]zero tolerance, guns in schools, public schools, idiots[/tags]