Young America's Foundation has compiled the Top 10 most shameful campus events in America's education system in 2003. Here are some of the highlights:

10. Gonzaga University (Spokane, Wash.) administration officials censored a conservative student group's flyer advertising a Young America's Foundation organized lecture because the word "hate" was used on the flyer.

9. Park Ridge elementary school officials in Nampa, Idaho, told an 11-year-old student to stop wearing his patriotic military theme T-shirt to school.

8. Students at Smith College, an all-female school in Massachusetts, voted to remove all feminine pronouns from the school constitution and replace them with gender-neutral ones.

7. The president of the University of Arizona sent out a formal letter to the class of 2003 stating that tortillas would not be allowed at their commencement.

6. A group of teachers and parents at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif., is pushing to rename the school because Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder.

5. A 14-year-old New Jersey student was suspended for five days for drawing a picture of a stick figure U.S. Marine shooting a Taliban fighter.

4. The administration of Roger Williams University (Rhode Island) froze funding and attacked a conservative campus organization for advocating diversity of thought through the group's publication, The Hawk's Right Eye.

3. Professor Rosalyn Kahn of Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., forced students in her Speech 106 class, a required course, to write anti-war letters to President Bush and penalized their grades after some refused.

2. Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University stated during a six-hour university "teach-in" on the war in Iraq that he would like to see "a million Mogadishus" - a reference to the eighteen American soldiers who were ambushed and killed in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993.

1. Wesleyan University in Connecticut now offers a "Gender Blind" dormitory floor for incoming students who aren't sure what sex they are.

I think the list leaves a lot to be desired. Although there are a few in there older than a year, my list includes much more of the hypocrisy and "zero tolerance" nonsense that schools are teaching our nation's children.

10. Education Minister Elizabeth Witmer was roughed up by Ontario Teachers Union members after an address at their annual meeting.

9. A 12-year old Rio Rancho student was suspended for two days after a teacher observed him getting two drinks from a soda machine. The machine was mistakenly dispensing two drinks for each one purchased, and for taking advantage of the 2-for-1 deal, the student was accused of stealing.

8. Students at Minnesota's Winona Middle School were instructed to bring their guns to a gun safety class, and then barred from entering the school under threat of the school's "zero-tolerance" policies.

7. The Maryland State Board of Education passed a regulation mandating the suspension of children that call each other names or make jokes about someone's sexuality. When asked about other forms of teasing, Marilyn Maultsby, president of the board, said, "Harassment because of their sexual orientation is more egregious than for an issue such as acne."

6. After more than two years in service, a Wisconsin hotline set up for students to report guns in schools had received only seven calls, five of which were pranks. The hotline costs $50,000 a year to implement, and has a slower response than the 911 emergency system.

5. Six year old Kevin Long was suspended for 10 days for possession of a "weapon". The "weapon" turned out to be a plastic knife that Kevin had been given by the school's cafeteria to butter his bread.

4. Sixth grade teacher Mary Bond tried to implement a rule that would ban talking between boys and girls, in an attempt to stop "public displays of affection." The rule was eventually overturned by the school principal.

3. 13-year old Chip Chaffee spent his entire Thanksgiving holiday working on his narrative writing project. He wrote a fictional story inspired by his father and grandfather's military experience. His teacher refused to accept the story because it contained violence.

2. 13-year old Raylee Montgomery was suspended after her shirt became untucked. She apologized, tucking it in, and asking if she could continue to class, but was instead punished under the school's "zero tolerance dress code".

1. 15-year-old Brandon Kivi was expelled for letting his asthmatic girlfriend use his prescription inhaler during an asthma attack. The two share the same prescription, and rather than watching her die because she had forgotten her inhaler, Brandon chose to save her life.

I'll let you be the judge of who has the better list.