"Bully!
If schoolyard bullying is a federal issue, then everything must be, right? But in the eyes of the Obama administration, everything is a federal issue."..............................
"Commissioner Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego, writes:
Remember when children used to say “Don’t make a federal case out of it”? In those days, even fourth graders understood that not every problem is best dealt with at the federal level.”
Commissioner Heriot predicts that Department of Education’s bullying policy will lead to the same kind of “zero tolerance” policies that the Department’s sexual harassment policy has already led to and that common sense as well as the First Amendment are likely to suffer further. In Maryland alone, in the 2007-2008 school year, 166 elementary school students,"..............