David decided to honor the Armed Services and glued plastic Army figures to a camouflage baseball cap, but school officials said the hat ran afoul of their no-weapons policy because the plastic Army figures held tiny guns and banned it!

Good Lord, talk about being stuck on stupid… Plastic Army figures with tiny plastic guns don’t pose a threat to anyone, the simple fact that school officials would ban them demonstrates the stupidity of the policy.

The school’s decision has generated considerable criticism from the community and attracted the attention of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio, the former head of the Rhode Island Nation Guard. Gen. Centracchio presented David with a medal on Friday and met with school officials and asked them to change the policy… Something school officials are now working on:

The superintendent of a Rhode Island school district that banned a second-grader’s homemade hat because it displayed toy soldiers with tiny guns said Saturday he will work to change the policy to allow such apparel.

Ken Di Pietro said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the no-weapons policy shouldn’t limit student expression, especially when students are depicting “tools of a profession or service,” such as the military or police.

“The event exposed how a policy meant to ensure safe environments for students can become restrictive and can present an image counter to the work of our schools to promote patriotism and democracy,” Di Pietro said.

Gen. Centracchio is right David should be commended for his patriotism and support for our troops and veterans, not punished by anal retentive bureaucrats.

Related

• Whither common sense? – Montrose Daily Press
• School shoots self in the foot – Imperial Valley Press
• Toy soldiers – John Feehery, The Hill

A couple of quick points:

1) The Secret Service says they have yet to find anyone who can backup that Scranton ‘Kill Him’ Report.

[Secret Service agent] Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.

“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.

He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.

Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”

“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”

2) Can we please put that 47 million uninsured myth to rest?

Michelle Malkin has a brief debate wrap up here. Jeff Emanuel has commentary and analysis @ Red State.

Morning After Updates

Ed Morrissey has post debate analysis and a run down of Obama’s big lies @ Hot Air. Karl Rove says Obama hasn’t closed the sale and the Wall Street Journal editorial board says Joe the Plumber cuts to the heart of the Presidential choice.

I picked up my local paper this morning and there was front page story on two 13 year olds being arrested for threatening to shoot a public school teacher. I’ll be the first one to admit I had more than a few disagreements with my teachers when I was in school but threatening to shoot one of them never would have occurred to me.

That was just the start, after skimming our local paper and finishing my breakfast I went on line to get my real news fix and came across this story: “Congressional Democrats Warn Petraeus, Crocker Not to Minimize Seriousness of Situation in Iraq“. You’ve got to be kidding me??? I have no doubt that General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will testify truthfully and accurately about the situation on the ground in Iraq or that what they say will be exactly what democrats on the hill don’t want to hear.