So hillarious...yet SO SAD....

From Opinion Journal

Zero-Tolerance Watch
Zach Rubio got in trouble at school over something he said, the Washington Post reports from Kansas City, Kan.:

"It was, like, totally not in the classroom," the high school junior said, recalling the infraction. "We were in the, like, hall or whatever, on restroom break. This kid I know, he's like, 'Me prestas un dolar?' ['Will you lend me a dollar?'] Well, he asked in Spanish; it just seemed natural to answer that way. So I'm like, 'No problema.' "

But that conversation turned out to be a big problem for the staff at the Endeavor Alternative School, a small public high school in an ethnically mixed blue-collar neighborhood. A teacher who overheard the two boys sent Zach to the office, where Principal Jennifer Watts ordered him to call his father and leave the school.

Watts, whom students describe as a disciplinarian, said she can't discuss the case. But in a written "discipline referral" explaining her decision to suspend Zach for 1 1/2 days, she noted: "This is not the first time we have [asked] Zach and others to not speak Spanish at school."

But forget about the Spanish phrase; look at the way young Zach speaks English. He's all, "It was, like, totally . . . he's like . . . so I'm like." Principal Watts is like totally focusing on the wrong things, you know? We're like so sure!

Heavy says: Our tax dollars at work. Public education. Where do we go from here?