Saved By the Bell isn't actually good.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

I once heard of a student being expelled for bringing a bullet into school. Though it wasn't the greatest thing to show off to friends, I believe the school overreacted. Honestly, what was he going to do, throw it at someone really hard?

The only thing I could imagine is if it wasn't a used bullet and the kids decide to think it would be a good idea to smack it with a rock during recess or something. As BM said, it's a liability issue, and I don't think anyone wants their kid's school to get owned by some lame multi-million dollar lawsuit over something easily preventable.

I remember my elementary school didn't allow you to bring any sort of drugs/medicine in and if you did it would have to be stored with the school nurse. I had been having a lot of headaches, so my mom would pack some Advil in with my lunch. Most of the teachers were willing to look the other way, but you'd have the occasional ones that were dicks and got me in trouble once or twice (all this being prior to Zero Tolerance policies).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Heh, yeah, I remember in elementary school some of the asthmatic kids would have attacks during gym class and then one of us would have to run down to the nurse's office (except not running because that would get you in trouble in the halls) to get their inhaler and bring it back out. So ridiculous.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Shouldn't most of this zero-tolerance stuff be chalked more up to over aggressive administrators? As someone else earlier in the thread mentioned, their school had a "zero tolerance" policy but until 9/11 it wasn't enforced too harshly. Likewise in my school, we had no zero tolerance policy, yet kids got in trouble for similar incidents.

How ya doing, buddy?