They will learn a lesson from this...as they should.
Posted on 12/20/2016 10:11:57 AM PST by detective
Who would have thought a butter knife could become the center of a school controversy? Last month, officials at Silver Trail Middle School near Miami, Florida, suspended an 11-year-old honors student for violating a county policy strictly prohibiting weapons on campus. The girl’s weapon of choice: a butter knife fit for a toddler. To highlight the dangers of having this dull knife on campus, the police noted to state prosecutors that the girl used it to cut a peach. Such is the folly of overcriminalization: Every minor mishap gets crammed into the criminal justice system when it could be easily resolved by other means.
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"In Ohio, 10th-grader Da’von Shaw gave a class presentation on how to make a healthy breakfast, which included an apple that he sliced in front of the class. Da’von received a five-day suspension for possessing a weapon on campus."
"In California, high school senior Brandon Cappelletti was not nearly as fortunate. He faced a misdemeanor charge after school officials discovered pocket knives left over from a family fishing trip in the console of his car, which was parked on school grounds."
They’d better ban pencil’s.
Zero tolerance rules are there to make people blindly follow orders from the government.
Butter cups fear butter knives.
Finally, fruit is now safe in our public schools.
The totalitarian Obamanation at work in our daily lives. It can’t end too soon.
They will learn a lesson from this...as they should.
Reason #43,782,788 why our children will never attend a public indoctrination and dehumanization center.
ROFL!!!
Teeth are a weapon. Long nails.
Pencils, as another freeper said. Prisoners have been killed with pens.
You could smash a PC over someone’s head :)
Better check the cafeteria kitchens for "weapons" then.
Are you being sarcastic?
We need to somehow stop this madness. All of this stems from that one fateful day when some moslims hijacked and crashed jetliners into the Trade Center. And what is our response? TSA prostate exams at the airports, surveillance in every area of our lives, and thinks like this.
Maybe Ms. DeVos of the DOE can embarrass them publicly for, well, being so blasted stupid. And also tell them to either get a clue or resign.
Make public education great again, Ms. DeVos!
We have lost common sense. We overreact and administer zero tolerance policies for incidents which don’t seem to be infractions at all.
And we wonder how schools are so screwed up. Among other things not educating students as well as they did in years past. But these administrative people in schools are so proud of encorcing the rules......
thinks = things. Sorry for the typo
My demonstration speech was how to cut laminated glass. I had a piece of sharp glass, a glass cutter, a bottle of denatured alcohol, a lighter and a razor knife.
The process includes scoring the glass, pouring some alcohol on the score and lighting it, then using the razor to cut the plastic between both layers of glass.
I had a cousin who took the same class from the same teacher. He was legendary for bringing his motorcycle into the classroom for a speech and he just had to show how the electric start worked.
I figured using enough alcohol to scorch the ceiling would do the same.
It did. I got an A on my speech.
It was even videotaped and still I didn’t get in trouble.
Cue the Crokadile Dundee pic.
Zero tolerance denies the use of common sense application or non-application of rules. I mean kids have been punished for having Midol with them.
They think this idiocy shields them from being sued. Since the logic behind zero-tolerance is idiotic, I sincerely doubt that. Idiotic policies are ripe for being sued.
Handling things with proportionality and context on a case by case basis is what sane people do. It’s why we have investigations and a justice system. Reality is not blindly zero tolerance.
Prisoners have modified spoons and toothbrushes and combs to be stabbing weapons.
To turn the populace into submissive sheep:
- make laws that are overly broad and inclusive, which criminalize non-criminal actions.
- apply the penalties in a capricious way, so that the folks can’t know with certainty what the effect on them will be.
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