Zero Tolerance = Zero Brains

A graduating senior in an LA-area school decorates his mortarboard hat with toy soldiers. It's some kind of school tradition, to decorate your mortarboard with something.

Unfortunately, this school had a zero-tolerance weapons policy. Zero tolerance, even for an inch-high green army man with a tiny rifle.

The kids were told they had to snip the "rifles" off.

The part I love was this:

In enforcing the decision, the district cited its Safe Schools policy and the federal Gun Free Schools Act of 1994, a federal law designed to remove firearms from schools.

Full story here:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/8013037.html