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School authorities in Newark, Delaware has come to it’s senses:

Yesterday he faced 45 days in reform school. This morning, Zachary Christie is on his way to school for the first time since he made the mistake of taking his favorite camping utensil to school and ran into his Delaware school system’s zero-tolerance policy.

On Tuesday night the school board made a hasty change to its code of conduct. The seven-member board voted unanimously to reduce the punishment for kindergartners and first-graders who bring weapons to school or commit other violent offenses to a suspension ranging from three to five days.

“I want to get him back as soon as possible. I want to put this behind him as soon as possible,” said Debbie Christie, Zachary’s mother, said after the board meeting Tuesday night. “But I also want him to know that he has a voice, and when things are not right, he can stand up and speak out against them.”

Early Wednesday morning Christie sent a text message to TODAY producers, saying that Zachary was headed off to school.

Christie thanked the school board for acting quickly but said it was only the first step toward a necessary overhaul of the school system’s code of conduct. A spokeswoman for the school district said more changes were possible in the coming months.

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For the moment at least, sanity prevails.