This alone proves that many people have lost a lot of common sense over the years and the school system in turn has gone so downhill it just isn't what it was back then in the old days.
I mean seriously, have many people gone mad to the point where they take even the harmless thing like a bubble gun as an actual "terrorist threat"??? This alone proves that those in power with no responsibility on how to handle power show how corrupt they have become, how corrupt the school system has become, even how corrupt some people have become and it's just a mess.
This is why something should of been done with the Department of Education back in the 1980s but no it didn't happen, it simply didn't happen because people in power with no responsibility prevented that from happening, guess what happens afterwords?
The School System going downhill and the first signs of this was when GW Bush approved the No Left Child Behind Act, it's nothing more but one sick joke and things where going downhill, this is one of the big reasons why GW Bush will endure once he sees the No Child Left Behind Act become abolished.
All these things point out that a lot of things with in the school system need to change and some of those changes need to go back to the way they once where, save for the fact that there will be differences in it's wake.