And you wonder why our schools are in trouble? Really?

There was an article in the local rag today about a special ed teacher at Mojave High who failed to report to police that two students bought a semiautomatic handgun to school. According to the article, the students had it out in class, and one passed it to another.

But that's not nearly as interesting as some of the comments on the newspaper's website about the whole incident. Here are some of my personal favorites:

Metro wants you to snitch on your neighbor, student, co-worker anyone. This is community training. This is conditioning to get people comfortable with the idea of reporting on their neighbors; a concept repugnant to most free societies, but one very common to police states.

Why are so many calling out for this teacher to be stoned in public when there is NO VICTIM? Where is the victim(s) in this incident? If we are not careful we are apt to allow our local police to become as militarized as California's. Nations behind the old Iron Curtain had less a police state than we do now. Where do we draw the line, people?

Perhaps the teacher and the students believe that the Constitution of the United States preempt the nanny playground rules? Infringed? Who is sworn to uphold the constitution and laws of the United States of America? How much longer will citizens tolerate this arrogant behavior from our public servants enforcing illegal gun laws?

This is all *so* unnecessary. Abolish public education. Nobody cares which private school students are carrying or concealing. Nobody cares what private school teachers see or when they see it. Except maybe socialist busybodies in the Legislature and the unemployed, public school bureaucrats, union members, and contractors looking for their chance to get back on the dole.

Four different comments from four different people. Gun in school? Good thing. Teacher not telling on students with gun? Good thing. Teacher getting in trouble for not telling? Worst thing ever. This is but a small sample of the anti-teacher, anti-school, anti-education mentality common in Las Vegas. It's enough to make me feel like I'm treading water in a sea of dullards and lackwits who think I'm their personal flotation device.