A unbelievable combination of stoopidity and thuggery – Little Girl Detained By Police After Trying to Buy School Lunch with Real $2 Bill,

But the $2 bill was real, of course. There aren’t very many of them but $2s are out there. They constitute perfectly legal tender.

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That’s right: the 13-year-old didn’t even receive an apology from the authority figures, even though she was ultimately denied lunch that day, according to her grandmother. Grandma also had this to say: “It was very outrageous for them to do it. There was no need for police involvement. They’re charging kids like they’re adults now.”

This may seem like a small, silly story, but the grandmother has it exactly right: public schools overwhelmingly assume that children’s misdeeds represent criminal wrongdoing and should be referred to the police. If little Danesiah had actually been attempting to pass off a fake $2 bill as legal tender, it was the school’s job to discipline her, not a matter for the police. And yet law enforcement is routinely brought in to handle the most trivial behavioral disputes in public schools.

Was there nobody involved in either of these organization that has ever heard of or seen a $2 bill? What if she tried to use a Susan B Anthony $1 coin or a John F Kennedy half dollar?

No apology and no lunch. Shaming in the public square for both law enforcement and school officials. And these nimrods better start working on their very public apology, right now.