{"id":467,"date":"2006-05-29T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2006-05-29T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T20:50:08","slug":"stupid-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Stupid tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school in Pennsylvania is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/education\/9273029\/detail.html?rss=burg&#038;psp=news\">threatening to suspend a student<\/a> for giving some chewing gum to a classmate. <\/p>\n<p>Your probably thinking that this isn&#8217;t the 1950&#8217;s. Gum sharing isn&#8217;t that big a deal nowdays. You&#8217;re right, unless it violates the zero tolerance policy on drugs. You see the gum that the student was sharing was Jolt gum and contains the &#8220;stimulant&#8221; caffeine!  AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>The question is, why do we let &#8220;educators&#8221; teach children when they demonstrate they have no ability to use reason?<\/p>\n<p>(hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakelblog.com\/nobodys_business\/2006\/05\/chewed_out.html\">Nobody&#8217;s Business<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/2006\/05\/caffeine_as_drug.html\">Overlawyered<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school in Pennsylvania is threatening to suspend a student for giving some chewing gum to a classmate. Your probably thinking that this isn&#8217;t the 1950&#8217;s. Gum sharing isn&#8217;t that big a deal nowdays. You&#8217;re right, unless it violates the zero tolerance policy on drugs. You see the gum that the student was sharing was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid tolerance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivory-towers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}