Sherri Viniard

Sherri Viniard, the Director of Public Relations for the Newton County School System, emailed a statement to 11Alive News Thursday that reads, in part: "Student safety is our primary concern, and although this was a toy gun, it is still a very serious offense and it is a violation of school rules. We will not tolerate weapons of any kind on school property.

This is in the wake of the arrest of a ten year old for having a cap gun in school. The boy was "charged with possessing a weapon on school property and with terroristic acts and threats."

Are there any thinking adults in the Newton Country School System of the great state of Georgia?

When you have school administrators, policemen, and judges that interpret the law autistically and literally without any sense of proportion, application, and common sense, than you should expect parents and students to look at such rules and the people that make and enforce them with corresponding contempt.