tolerance policy and common sense goes out the window. it is clear there is a joke. it says i will hurt you and that is technically violence. he had to take off his t-shirt. >> you described exactly what happened. of course we should remember a school's whole reason for being is to educate kids is to teach them. kids are being taught i think a really important lesson here which is that a lot of adults are totally inflexible, humorless, lacking common sense and robotically carrying out rules they don't even understand. >> what you're saying is a teachable moment. >> he why. >> the teachers, in fact, shouldn't have kicked the kid out. they should have used it in the classroom to explain how inflexible the rules are. >> by their actions they have. >> we should say, they did not kick the student out. it wasn't that he was expelled. they asked him to turn his t-shirt inside out. he didn't want to do that. he said, i'm not going to look stupid in front of all these young ladies in school. so then he had to go home --