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Your son did not report the knife at school to an adult - poor judgement. He didn't live up to his responsibilities at school. Have him take this minimal punishment, suck it up, sign the document and get it over with.

Or remove your child from the school and make the point that his "rights" override any of his responsibilities.

I'm glad somebody finally said it.

Your son did not report the knife at school to an adult - poor judgment.

I think that is ridiculous. The administrator assumed facts not in evidence, and then tried to manipulate the youngster in as much as their is an assumed higher allegiance to the 'state', than to his Cub Scout buddy or his parents.

The problem occurred when the 'other' kid ratted out the culprit, and more than likely, to gain Brownie points.

To bad this child in question didn't have the wherewith all to just clam up and say nothing.

Note to Freedom minded parents whose children are in socialist public schools: Brief them that they are to give nothing but name, rank and serial number and demand they speak first with their legal counsel [mommy and daddy].

This country is going to hell in a hand basket as more and more people seem so eager to roll over and show big brother their soft white underbelly.

When I was in grade school I got framed for shoving an apple in a toilet and flushing the toilet to overflow it. I was in 4th grade. The principal badgered me and cajoled me to admit I did it. I refused. He threatened me with all measures of punishment, from expulsion to being publicly ostracized.

I held my ground and finally after two hours got belligerent and rude and demanded my mother. When my mother arrived, she trusted me and my story.

I was suspended for 3 days by the a$$hole principal. I stayed home with mom and ate cookies and watched Beetle Baily on our first color television.

That was a seminal link in the chain on me becoming a conservative. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I hate authority, unless I voluntarily and with clear mind accept it beforehand.

Your son did not report the knife at school to an adult - poor judgement. He didn't live up to his responsibilities at school ...

Oh, PLEASE! It was a POCKET KNIFE, for crying out loud! Holy cats, what on EARTH is wrong with some of the people on this thread? The boy was NOT wrong in any way, nor was the boy who brought the pocket knife in the first place!

What was WRONG was a school rule stating that 9-year-old boys can't carry pocket knives of the kind that every American male of just about every age has carried every decade of this country's existence up until the politically-co-WRECKED latter decades.

This whole thread fries me. The father shouldn't have to resort to home-schooling his kids, boys shouldn't get in trouble for carrying pocketknives and girls shouldn't get in trouble for carrying aspirin in thier purses! I know there will be niminy-piminy prisses who'll whine, "But there was a school rule!" The rule was and IS a wrong and stupid one. Pocket knives don't cause trouble -- BAD KIDS DO. The rules should apply to behavior, not to a handy time-immemorial tool in a red-blooded American boy's pocket. What message are we sending to kids with this kind of screwed priority, of putting the onus on the innocent and useful pocket knife rather than on kids who exhibit hood-like behaviour, pocket knives or not?

Gosh, I HOPE there will be some people here who agree with me and say so!