I just have to share this recent item reported by the Opinion Journal.
Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher reports on the case of eight-year-old Dusty Miller, who was almost expelled from the Montgomery County, Md., school system because he brought a “most dangerous object” to Burnt Mills Elementary School. The object? “A 99-cent nail clipper, available at any dollar store.” Writes Fisher:“Last week, the county, flummoxed by conflicting accounts of the clipper incident, decided to allow Dustin to return to school after nearly a month of sitting at home. But at no point in the hour-long hearing did anyone question the wisdom of rules that make it possible to expel an 8-year-old for having a nail clipper in his pocket.”
Where do they find people like this? Are they grown in a secret government vat? Is there a reason they are deathly afraid of getting their nails clipped? Is this a job for Mulder and Scully?
