Zero Intelligence Strikes Again

After spending four nights in an Ocala juvenile jail, the 11-year-old Lake County boy detained for his "deadly" makeshift slingshot returned home to his parents Tuesday night.

Kevin Cottle said he didn't deliberately try to hit another student at Tavares Middle School with his home-made slingshot.

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The sixth-grader at Tavares Middle was arrested Friday when he was accused of using a toy balloon slingshot to hit another student in the chest. He faces second-degree felony charges of shooting or throwing a deadly missile.

Shooting or throwing a deadly missile? Are they crazy in their frickin' heads?

This has got to stop. Zero-tolerance is becoming nothing but a way for administrators to "make examples" of certain students and for what? To prove they are the big bad administrators who know all and should never be questioned?

I want to know who decided to call the police in the first place, over a toy? Talk about wasting the resources of the police department and the money of the taxpayers.

Samuel Oliver, the Tavares attorney representing Kevin, said Tuesday he expected authorities to downgrade allegations lodged against the boy.

Prosecutors are "apparently skeptical of whether or not this merited the charge that was levied by the Sheriff's Office," he said.

Ya think?

Once again administrators and teachers are acting with zero intelligence. They won't use red ink anymore because it may stigmatize the children, but they have no problem calling the police and slapping the student in cuffs. Hypocrites.