Okay, I'll grant you that it may not be the smartest thing (these days) to bring a dummy grenade to school for show & tell. But in a building full of ostensibly responsible and well-educated adults, nobody thinks to just take it away from the child and have the parents come to school to get it? Hello? Can you not look inside the big hole and see that there's no explosive inside? Do you really have to evacuate the whole school?
I guess those 'educationalists' went to the same firearms recognition training as the people who reported a man with a long gun near a high school . . . that turned out to be just a bundle of sticks. Of course, the police officers who responded had also gone to the same training, because, instead of a single officer approaching and having 2 minutes of conversation, a bunch of officers showed up and converged on him with guns drawn. And then they searched him and ran a quick record check on him.
The future of our country (the children in government schools) is being acclimated to this type of activity. What will they tolerate from their government, when they are grown?
What will you tolerate today? If this happened in your city, would you be one of the ones who called the chief of police to call him a dumbass?
Or do you let it slide (again) because it's just an isolated incident? Consider: would these police officers have had a job tomorrow, 50 years ago? 100 years ago?
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