Remote school does not protect children from the school-to-prison pipeline. Colorado school officials suspended a child for playing with a nerf gun (a harmless toy which does not look like a real gun) while visible on camera, then sent a thug to his house.

It's not that the officials are unable to tell the difference between a real gun and a nerf gun. It's not that they can't tell the difference between having a gun near you and seeing one on TV. It is much worse than that: they have been convinced that it is their job to ignore the difference.

This is much worse, because it can become far more widespread. We can expect that not more than a handful of school officials would lose track of the difference between reality and a picture; but if someone teaches them to ignore the difference, they could all do it!

The article presents this as a matter of racism. The child is black, and the parents assume the officials acted insanely because of that. Perhaps they did, but the article does not present evidence for that. Maybe they would have been insanely cruel to any child, regardless of race.

Let's hope these parents sue the pants off them, so they and other school officials will learn not to do this to any child, ever.