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They Should Have Used Only the Minesweepers

Susan Wright, principal of Michigan's Schall Elementary School, personally called the parents of one 9-year-old student to complain about how they had decorated cupcakes they sent to school for the boy to celebrate his birthday. The boy's mom had put little green army men on them, and Wright said that was "insensitive" considering the shooting last year at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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