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This is what happens when government is put in charge of…well, anything.

. . .The controversial expulsion stems from an incident on Nov. 15, when Ryan and another student heard there was a gun stashed in the boys’ bathroom at their Plainfield school. They found it in a garbage can, and Ryan put the gun in his pocket and handed it over to an assistant principal 10 minutes later in a cafeteria.

Audrey Morgan, the student’s mother, has argued that expulsion was “too harsh” and that her son was not being given credit for turning over the gun.

But the school board contends it followed the state law in this case.

“In a situation where a student has possessed, used or controlled or transferred a weapon on school grounds, the school code requires that the student be expelled for one calendar year and no more than two calendar years,” said Joanne Schochat, the assistant superintendent for the school district.

Just another of many problems that wouldn’t exist if government extricated itself from its educational quagmire.