No “zero tolerance” for doo-doo throwing.

Some things should be cut and dry and not require debate. We nominate throwing human excrement at students as one of those things that should result in immediate expulsion. A Canadian school district thinks otherwise. Yes, they do things differently in Canada.

By the way, it helps if you are the sister of Toronto’s deputy mayor.

Here’s the back-story:

A Toronto school principal who pleaded guilty to throwing human excrement at a 12-year-old boy may get her job back, officials said on Tuesday.

Maria Pantalone, 49, a sister of Toronto’s deputy mayor, was granted an absolute discharge on assault charges Monday after a judge said she “had already suffered enough,” according to court documents.

The charges stemmed from an incident on July 30, 2006, in which police said Pantalone threw feces at the boy, who was not one of her students, hitting him on the shoulder.

The circumstances of the assault cannot be described due to a court publication ban designed to protect the identity of the victim. The judge in the case, however, said they were unique.

“I couldn’t take it anymore. It was total, total frustration,” Pantalone testified, according to media reports.

She was suspended with pay from her position as an elementary school principal in August 2006.

In his ruling, the judge said Pantalone was “publicly embarrassed, if not humiliated. She has suffered more than most.”

They noted that she has suffered enough embarrassment. Her? Can you imagine the ribbing that the kid that she nailed with her dump is getting? That guy will never hear the end of it. He’ll probably need therapy.

Normally I’m against civil lawsuits but being hit by a clump of human peanut butter deserves some form of justice.

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