COLORADO SCHOOL IS STUPID
By Jim Foster
I started this blog because I love photographing and writing about the outdoors and commenting on issues of the day. What has happened lately is that the topics I love to write about have been shoved aside by politically correct idiots of this country. In this case the Colorado school system.
It has always been my belief schools were to educate our youngsters. Now we have all these “chicken little” types who are setting policies they don’t have the brains to interpret correctly. But on to Colorado.
Marie Marrow is a 17-year-old high school student in the Cherry Creek School system who was described by responsible student and even spoken of highly by the brainless wonders that are trying to expel her.
For what you ask?
Miss. Morrow commands a Young Marines drill team, demonstrates drill-team maneuvers with a practice (wooden) rifles. She left these wooden rifles in her truck in the school parking lot. Now she faces possible expulsion for having the wooden rifles in her vehicle at school.
The team, which practices at a Lutheran High School in Parker, Colorado has been preparing for a national drill team competition in April at the Air Force Academy.
Colorado (I will never recommend anyone hunting or fishing there again.) has a "zero-tolerance" law when it comes to guns on school campuses. They even go as far as to consider a facsimile of a gun or rifle a dangerous weapon.
Miss. Morrow's group recently performed at several Douglas County schools for Veterans Day events, and no one said a word.
This was another one of those “knee-jerk” policies I have written about over the years, this one passed in response to the Columbine High School shootings. Don't you just hate it when people use the deaths of children to advance their political agendas?
Due to what could be called by some as “bad press” State Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, said he would introduce a bill that would exempt facsimile weapons from the law. (Where was this mental midget when they passed this type of law in the first place ?)
Just for the record Marie Morrow has a 3.5 grade-point average, is a member of the Civil Air Patrol, is president of the school's Environmental Club, is involved in the Key Club and the Multi-Cultural Club, and is on Cherokee Trail's track and field team. A real future terrorist don’t you think?
Marie may come out of this miscarriage of reality unscathed but the Colorado school people have been exposed as the over reacting jerks they really are.
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