Posted on 11/06/2014 11:03:40 AM PST by grundle
Da'von Shaw, a Bedford, Ohio high school student, brought apples and craisins to school for a "healthy eating" presentation he was giving to his speech class. He took out a knife to slice an apple, and I'm sure you can all guess what happened next:
“When I took out the knife the teacher then told me that I couldn't use it, so I didn't hesitate I just gave it to her,” said Da'von.
He continued with his other classes, but late in the day was suspended for five days. The suspension letter charged him with having a weapon at school.
His mother Shakila Wilson is angry, saying, “I can take off my belt and use that as a weapon. Pens and pencils can be used as a weapon. You can't take a person with no intentions to harm and put them as a criminal because that's what you normally do.”
She feels the punishment is too much, didn't take the circumstances into account and worries about her son missing classes and assignments.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
I used to work in a warehouse. The company got all new age on us and decided to remove knives from the lunchroom. The people would have to come to my office and check them out to use at lunch. They would bring them back to me, go back to work AND PICK UP THEIR BOX CUTTERS! When I pointed this out upper management just couldn’t figure out what my problem was with the new policy.
It is long past time for separation of school and state.
End government controlled education.
Taxpayer money, yes. At least they get humiliated in court. Might not be worth it to them next time.
A sharply pointed number 2 pencil?
Thanks for the email address. Here is my note :
Your mistreatment of a student who was demonstrating healthy snacking and attempted to use a knife to cut an apple is out of bounds. What kind of education do you administrators have that you would consider it a threat to cut an apple in a teacher-approved demonstration? Educators should all go to some camp to learn common-sense. And if the zero-tolerance program is so austere that one is not allowed to use his critical thinking skills, then the school has to address this as a problem. The student is not the problem, the adults are the problem. Why not fight for common sense application of rules? Instead of punishing innocent students, students who want to learn, with your dumb rules, fight to defend them from stupid applications of policies that would have found you ridiculed not too many years ago.
Respectfully,
True but many people are stuck if they have to pay taxes for public school and then have to pay for private tuition on top of that.
Chickens. Roost.
Are the local stores permitted to sell knives? /sarc
Here’s an option for OurDearLeader’s ‘wife’... http://www.inquisitr.com/1590233/foodini-3d-food-printer/
Prints up healthy foods that only need to be cooked & served.
So I take it you don’t believe DOJ crime statistics?
My shootgun was a J.C.Higgins forty-one hundred, single shot.
The problem is government schools.
Many of the people tasked with educating our children are about as smart as a box of rocks - with all of the smart ones taken out.
A friend of mine ran the kitchen at a county jail. The knives were chained to the counter top.
Teeth will next be regarded as a sharp and dangerous implement if a student gets caught biting into an apple and a chunk rips right out of it!
1968, Northern central Mass. High school. Several of us used to bring our .22 rifles to school and leave them in the office to go rabbit hunting out behind the football field after school. A box of .22LR in another pocket we’d also leave in the office with the vice principal. No permission slips, no sign in/out sheets, no one thought anything about it except rabbit stew the next day for supper.
Does this school have baseball bats that they let children hold?
Public schools are like prisons.
My son just said, “Do you know what they do at ______ High when they see a knife? ‘Put that knife where I can’t see it . . .’” “Knives are tools.”
We used to put our shotguns or deer rifles in the principal’s office so our trucks wouldn’t get broken in to. We all had gun racks in the back window.
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