We don’t want our son, a former Cub Scout, to be threatened with a 45-day suspension for bringing to school a combination folding knife, fork and spoon so he can eat his lunch.

Zero-tolerance policies and the brainless bureaucrats who invented them are not an issue in the Glover Home School. Anthony is welcome to bring his Swiss Army to school any day of the week. It could come in handy for science and perhaps other classes.

Thankfully, the school board in Delaware overturned officials who decided 6-year-old Zachary Christie needed to have the Book of Stupid Laws thrown at him for accidentally violating a policy that lacks common sense. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies are still being enforced across the country.

In case you’ve forgotten, Lesson #21 is similar to Lesson #12 — no strip searches in the Glover Home School to look for pain killers — which was also the result of a zero-tolerance policy.

(Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.)