Another absurd zero tolerance story involves a student carrying a malicious looking burrito to school without a permit and inducing a school lockdown. Sigh, when will schools learn.

A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.

Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.

The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.

“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry,” school Principal Diana Russell said.

Cry. Cry about the ridiculous over reactions your school and thousands of others go through that can often destroy the lives of students victimized by it. Then laugh that you are more reasonable than most schools and didn’t stubbornly defend your school’s overreaction and expel the burrito carrying bandit. I imagine many other schools would have.

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