Is Brownie back? Or is the whole freakin' Homeland Security department bonkers?

The kindergarten class at Lakewood’s Taft Elementary was planning a field trip to NASA Glenn Research Center. It’s a popular trip because it’s free, because the NASA staff already has age-appropriate tours that fit well with school curriculum, and, well, it’s outer space, for pete’s sake. They’ve got rocket ships.

But, says Ohio's Free Times, there was a problem at Taft school.

Because two kids in the kindergarten class are not U.S. citizens, the teacher had to cancel the trip.

“It was just a policy that came down from the Homeland Security Department,” said Chief Community and Media Relations Officer Linda Dukes-Campbell. “We are a federal reservation, and we have to work within those ramifications.”

Yup, you read it right. Working "within the ramifications" (huh?) NASA, at the behest of Homeland Security, protects us against 6-year old terrorists. From an elementary school in Ohio.

Dukes-Campbell says, though, that the agency is “looking at a policy revision” that might allow kindergarteners onto the federal reservation for field trips. She says they’re “hoping to have language” in order in a couple of weeks.

I think they need to get more than their language in order, myself. Like, maybe, their heads.

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