The horrific violence of little green army men
Paul Clinton of the Daily Breeze reports on an elementary school’s narrow avoidance of a horror only a step shy of another Virginia Tech massacre. Shortly before fifth-grade graduation at the Cornerstone School at Pedregal, the administration discovered that eleven students were planning on bringing military weapons to the event. Fortunately, the safety of the children attending was assured by prompt and decisive action on the part of Principal Denise Leonard (leonardd@mail.pvpusd.k12.ca.us.)
The students were required to clip off the ends of the weapons with scissors. You see, the dangerous weapons were those carried by little green army men mounted, in Cornerstone School tradition, on the mortarboards of the graduating fifth-graders.
Leonard’s diligence helped prevent a major incident in keeping with the school’s zero tolerance policies on weapons and administrative intelligence.