Ceci n'es pas un soldat
The toy soldier ban in Palos Verdes reported by Chris is another in a long line of absurd bureaucratic cop-outs. I know that there have been elementary school children suspended for drawing pictures of guns. Can you imagine?
The artist Rene Magritte’s famous picture shows a painting of a pipe, and on the canvass is written in French, “This is not a pipe.” Seems pretty clear that it’s a picture of a pipe and not a real pipe. Trying to light up and smoke the canvas would not be a good idea. Most 5 year-olds get it.
Sadly, zero tolerance normally implies zero sense, judgment or responsibility. The not doubt well-meaning people at the Palos Verdes schools don’t have the sense of a 5 year-old and can’t distinguish a toy soldier from an armed terrorist.
Maybe written over the annual portrait of the PV school officials should be the words: “These are not educators.”
Hello,
"Ceci n'es pas un soldat"
"ceci n'EST pas un soldat"