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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 335875" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Janet, I could see some of our bus drivers doing this. And it would be fine as long as the water guns were brightly colored and not colored like real guns. </p><p></p><p>Our little "wanna be a city" town (technically meets criteria for a small city but still acts much like a small town has a school district still run by common sense. Mostly. We don't have much zero tolerance. The WHY is still as important as the what. Just recently a child was stealing other kids lunches. Sometimes 4-5 a day. Many schools are starting zero tolerance for stealing around here. Not ours.</p><p></p><p>The teacher asked the boy why he was taking so many lunches. Of course his folks were poor, but his parents were spending the weekends out partying and not coming home for a couple of days at a time. He was the oldest and had a younger sib - and their parents usually left no food for the kids when they disappeared. </p><p></p><p>The child and his sister get free lunch and bfast and they get a backpack FULL of healthy food to take home on Friday. </p><p></p><p>They also are being monitored very closely by child services. On professional days/days with no school the teacher who found out about the problem has pizza delivered at lunch time. She and her husband own a pizza place. She does this for about 4 families at any given time. Even on snow days she makes sure someone delivers food to them. (She was thank you's teacher last year and is AMAZING!</p><p></p><p>So there ARE schools who let common sense stuff go on. But they also would have handled a gun differently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 335875, member: 1233"] Janet, I could see some of our bus drivers doing this. And it would be fine as long as the water guns were brightly colored and not colored like real guns. Our little "wanna be a city" town (technically meets criteria for a small city but still acts much like a small town has a school district still run by common sense. Mostly. We don't have much zero tolerance. The WHY is still as important as the what. Just recently a child was stealing other kids lunches. Sometimes 4-5 a day. Many schools are starting zero tolerance for stealing around here. Not ours. The teacher asked the boy why he was taking so many lunches. Of course his folks were poor, but his parents were spending the weekends out partying and not coming home for a couple of days at a time. He was the oldest and had a younger sib - and their parents usually left no food for the kids when they disappeared. The child and his sister get free lunch and bfast and they get a backpack FULL of healthy food to take home on Friday. They also are being monitored very closely by child services. On professional days/days with no school the teacher who found out about the problem has pizza delivered at lunch time. She and her husband own a pizza place. She does this for about 4 families at any given time. Even on snow days she makes sure someone delivers food to them. (She was thank you's teacher last year and is AMAZING! So there ARE schools who let common sense stuff go on. But they also would have handled a gun differently. [/QUOTE]
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