A good Boy Scout (literally) finds a broken-open gun on the way to school. Knowing it would be dangerous to leave it there where some other kid can find it, he picks it up, puts it in his backback, and once the bus delivers him there, marches into the principal’s office to turn it in.
After all, the principal is your friend, right? “The prince is your pal.” She’d surely appreciate the gesture, the effort, the concern.
Or, maybe she’d give you detention.
The school principal said he should have said something before getting onto the bus and never touched the gun.
“We want to make sure that he’s safe at all times and that the other children on that bus were safe,” said Marla Wasserman, the Oakwood Manor Elementary principal.
School officials chose a light punishment because he was a good kid, but he needed a message about what he did wrong, the principal said.
Because, of course, you can’t simply tell a “good kid” that what he did was wrong (or, rather, a mistake), you have to punish him to make sure he knows it.
He said next time he found something like that, he’d give it to his mother and miss the bus.
And get punished for that, too, no doubt.
The gun, by the way, turned out to be fake.
(via Andrea)