The Horror.
Let’s stop being mild and measured, shall we? Heads need to role, messages need to be sent, and a culture needs to be saved.
Fire Brandi Hutto.
If she can’t be fired because a union insists that fools and hysterics be allowed to abuse our children and warp our culture, then parents have to boycott the school, while flooding local papers with letters and petitions protesting the lunatic who is running the Garden Gate Elementary School in Cuperino, California. That is, unless this silly, incompetent, stupid, stupid woman gets down on her knees and begs forgiveness from young Braden Bandermann and his family, while also apologizing to his class and the schools itself for making the child feel like a criminal and trying to turn all the other children into trembling, terrified, weenies.
Fire Brandi Hutto.
But first make her pay for Braden to go to Disney World on her dime to make up for her role in ruining what should have been a great experience, a school camping trip, and send her out into the woods for a weekend to fend for herself with nothing but, say, a plastic spoon and a sponge, because, as any typical American school administrator knows, anyone who has anything in their possession more useful than these objects is a potential Adam Lanza. Maybe she will learn something useful that the Boy Scouts have been successfully teaching kids for about a century now.
Fire Brandi Hutto.
Just fire her. But before that, make her appear on The Daily Show, Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan and the Tonight Show so they can grill her about her idiocy, and make merciless fun of her before all of the United States. And make her watch, of, say, about a hundred Clint Eastwood and John Wayne movies, about guys who can take care of themselves in a crisis, and who don’t faint and whimper at the sight of sharp objects. No, the hell with it. Just fire the woman.
Fire Brandi Hutto.
Fire her, because as you can read here, (I don’t want to type the ridiculous details; I can’t stand any more of these. It’s bad for my heart, and I’m beginning to worry that dwelling on stupidity too long can diminish one’s own gray matter…) she insisted that a 5th Grader on a school camping trip be suspended and ostracized for taking his small pseudo-Swiss Army Knife along, though it is, after all, a camping tool. But Brandi, who, to be fair, may not have gotten the vapors because of the obvious threat posed by the slightly more than an inch-long blade the tool contains, but because she feared that he would begin viciously tweezing his fellow campers to death, or perhaps filing their faces off with the nail file, or maybe picking at their teeth sadistically while muttering, “Is is safe?” over and over again, like that evil Dr. Szell in “Marathon Man.” Good movie, by the way…I just saw it again for the first time in years. Lots of violence though—yes, let’s make Brandi watch that too.
I don’t want to hate people, but it is a struggle to avoid hating school officials like Brandi and whoever the brain-scrubbers in our culture are who created her and people like her, frightened, timid, silly life-phobics who want to pass on a state of perpetual terror and impotence to your children and mine. It is also a struggle not to see implicit approval of this kind of child abuse and educational malpractice from the silence from this President and his Secretary of Education, who long, long ago should have made a public statement against this kind of school madness. Approval, or, what is more likely, despicable cowardice: mustn’t anger those teachers’ unions, now! Ah, but the dearth of basic leadership from the top of America’s mountain is a larger issue, if not a more important one than condemning and arresting the effort by—who is it, really? Teachers? Pacifists? Progressives? Women? Enemy infiltrators? The Confederacy of Dunces?—to turn future Americans into helpless, trembling, pliant, jello-spined slugs who have to call up their tax-funded government agent to build a campfire in the woods, or whittle a stick. I don’t know how we get that done, exactly, but I know a good way to start.
Fire Brandi Hutto.
Please.
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Facts and Graphic: The Daily Caller
Ethics Alarms 
I have noticed the “no-tolerance” attitude has grown worse not just for guns, but for anything resembling a weapon. I wonder how far such hysteria will go before someone puts their foot down.
Who needs school anyway? Children can learn from the Internet!
The day is coming when they’ll be checking fingernails to see how sharp they are.
In a more just world, Brandi would be dragged from here house – naked – and beaten, then she would be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
Fine with me, as long as they fire her too.
I subscribe to the non-aggression principle, but cases like this make me long for the days of riding someone out of town on a rail.
It’s a powerful gesture saying, “We don’t want you living among us anymore. Go elsewhere.”
This kind of thing stopped surprising me when we lived in a school district where my child, who suffered from perpetually chapped lips, could not bring Chapstick to school because it was “medicine.” I was told I would have to get a doctor’s note. Eventually, the school receptionist took pity on him and hid a small jar of Vaseline in her desk drawer for him.
We no longer live there. Thank God.
But where CAN you live?
Well, we moved to one of those rural Christian conservative areas that Wyo sis mentioned. It comes with it’s own kind of idiocy, but that’s another thread for another day. At least my kid can bring Chapstick to school.
Time travel isn’t an option…
This young man was thought to be such a danger to the other students that he had to be isolated from the other students for one day? I would want to ask this principal…if this student was such a danger then what would have changed in that one day of isolation which would make him any less of a danger to the other students? Why in the world would you protect the other students from this dangerous student for only one day?
Oh! You say…he wasn’t really a danger to the other students? Well, that leads me to many more questions…
You can live in a rural Christian conservative area of the country. There are lots of them. We don’t have that kind of idiocy here. Yet.
Yeah, you just have to worry ’bout them homos queerin’ up the place.
Nice.
Very ethical.
No, you have different kinds of idiocy.
Not only fire this dimwit but march on the school board if they have one.
Along with a couple of tubes of lipstick I carry a Swiss Army knife in my purse. Wonder if good ol Brandi is secretly “harboring a dangerous weapon” in her purse?
The fear factor is part of the master plan and it seems to be working.
I was taught one thing you always need to carry is a knife. I will add that to my list of “no you will not be taking that either”!
On “NCIS,” as you probably know, one of “Gibbs’ Rules” is #2, “Always bring a knife.”
Bravo!!! Well said sir!
Wendy Gudalewicz, Superintendent
The Superintendent acts as the chief administrative officer of the District. The Superintendent implements the policies established by the Board of Education and is responsible for all aspects of the operation of the district.
Phone: (408) 252-3000, Ext. 200
Jack, you’re being a little coy about your feelings – are you saying you want her fired?
Could be…!
Kimberley really beat me out on that one! The trouble is, Jack, they’ll likely only replace her with another cut from the same mold. This is, after all, California and that state is apparently ruled by unrepentant old hippies who forsook the concepts of morality and reality quite some time ago. Now they have power over children who are in their schools as a requirement. Indeed, fire her. But to make it effective, those terminations must go up channel right to the California state school board. Likely to Old Weird Jerry in the governor’s mansion. Nothing less will result in more than a localized bandaid.
I just left this comment in an earlier thread before seeing this even more appropriate article- My rural HS allowed knives, as long as they folded shut, weren’t switchblades, and were shorter than 3″. When our new principal (imported from a much larger city) saw me using mine to fix her computer she threatened to suspend me, and said that she would see that the section in the student code that allowed such knives would be removed.
The real kicker came 5 minutes later when people started filtering in to complain that the parking-violation-warning stickers the school had plastered on their driver’s side windshields left residue and they couldn’t see to drive. She told them just to use a razor blade to peel it off. I came up from behind the desk laughing so hard I very nearly drew ANOTHER suspension for insubordination.
She did not last long at our school, but I’m sure if I looked today they have banned knives. Heck, they already disbanded the student tech support crew, because teachers felt we “posed a security risk”- can’t trust mere CHILDREN to fix your computer, you know. We also did unfortunate things like realizing the Vice Principal’s virus troubles came from his enormous porn stash, for which I got a lecture about snooping and tasked with removing all the porn, and told to NEVER tell anyone.