Education:*If you don't think public school fanaticism has reached dangerous levels, consider affluent Calvert Co., Maryland. "Educators" there spent hours traumatizing a 5-year-old boy for having a cap gun.A Connecticut school is shot up just before Christmas and 20 children are tragically killed along with a half-dozen teachers and staff.Instead of utilizing more police and high-tech security, school administrators in liberal southern Maryland seem to think safety is best served by spending two hours interrogating a kindergartner "caught" with a cap gun and waiting to notify his mother.What were they doing to him for two hours, discerning whether he was an al-Qaida sleeper agent? Whatever it was, the boy's mother told the Washington Post "that he uncharacteristically wet his pants during the episode."The principal reportedly said that if the toy gun had actually had caps in it, "it would have been deemed an explosive and police would have been called in." The school is set to blemish the boy's permanent record.Get real. Is there anything more normal than a 5-year-old boy showing off his cap gun on a school bus? Not permitting toys in general makes fine sense; kids don't go to school to waste time. But that's not what this politically correct insanity is about.Last month, another boy on his way to kindergarten in Palmer, Mass., was discovered with a quarter-sized Lego toy gun and the school initially demanded he write an apology to the bus driver, spend a day in detention and be suspended from the bus.Less than three months ago, just north of Calvert in Anne Arundel County, Md., a 7-year-old boy was suspended for two days for biting a Pop Tart into a gun shape and saying "bang, bang," because it was a "threat" to fellow pupils. Other Washington-area children "have been disciplined for pointing their fingers like guns," the Post reports.This is child abuse by politicized, power-drunk thought police in the public school system. Calvert and Anne Arundel form the heart of the congressional district of powerful liberal Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House's second-ranking Democrat. Calvert's public schools and county government are its top employers.It adds up to a poisonous recipe of power and ideology, which government educrats are only too happy to force down the throats of even the youngest kids.Email*Print*License*CommentRead More At Investor's Business Daily:*
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