Dear heavens, I do hope this latest is the end, the absolute end, of this zero tolerance nonsense.

"An elementary school principal in rural West Texas suspended a fourth-grade boy because he allegedly made a terroristic threat.

More specifically, the boy brought a ring to Kermit Elementary School in Kermit, Texas and informed another boy that it was a magic ring, the Odessa American reports.

With the magic ring, the boy said, he could totally make the second boy disappear.

The boy with the magic ring had seen “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” with his family last weekend, noted the boy’s father, Jason Steward.

Roxanne Greer, the principal at Kermit Elementary, assured Steward that the boy’s threat to whip out magic and wipe another child off the very face of the earth was very serious and would not be tolerated. It was — somehow — a threat to another child’s physical safety, Greer declared.

Greer would not elaborate on her reasoning.

“All student stuff is confidential,” the sophisticated, well-spoken principal told the Odessa American.

Kermit school district superintendent Bill Boyd did not comment.

Steward, the boy’s father, said he is waiting for written documentation about his son’s suspension. School officials in the town of 5,708 promised to put it in the mail."

OTOH, this child is obviously a complete miscreant, perhaps a future Ted Bundy, this ring business only the latest in a number of serious antisocial acts.

"The unidentified nine-year-old boy has been previously suspended for referring to the color of a student’s skin and possessing a book about pregnancies, Steward noted."

http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/02/nine-y...-kid-disappear/

Was it one of the :

Three rings for the Elven Kings under the Sky
Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their Halls of Stone
Nine for Mortal Men Doomed to Die [or was it]
And one for the Dark Lord on this Dark Throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows Lie