Board rethinks its no-fighting policy

Okay, kids shouldn't be fighting and they should get detention or whatever for it. But the Huntsville School Board has gone overboard. Their policy is that middle schoolers who are caught fighting be arrested and taken to the juvenile home.

First, there is the school board's no-fight policy. Passed in 1993, that policy orders principals to suspend or expel all students involved in a fight, regardless of who started it.

As part of the American educational system's longstanding "no self-defense" policy, no doubt.