[Graybeard58]

When I was a boy every 9 or 10 year old boy in school had a pocket knife and no one ever thought of it as a weapon or as a danger to anyone.

[ko_kyi]

I remember my first pocket knife - I was 8 and it had the cub scout logo on it.

It was followed 2 minutes later by my first self-inflicted pocket knife cut.

[Sender]

My Dad used to play something called 'mumbly peg' with his pocketknife at recess. But clearly 'assault spoons' must be banned! Zero tolerance!

[badbass]

Zero tolerance = Fascism. Mindless bureacrats at work.

[sonofagun]

If that were my boy, I'd be able to buy that $500,000 yaght I saw at the Indy boat show once I was done with this school system.

:^)

[wbill]

I feel safer, now that hardened criminals like this kid have been punished. /sarcasm

You'd think that the administration would have better things to do. What is this punishment teaching the kid?

At worst, a more sensible alternative would be to take the "weapon" from the kid, and tell him to pick it up on the way out the door. Maybe - send a note home with the parents, and ask that the "incident" not be repeated.

I guess that this is what you get when the inmates are put in charge of the asylum.

[MichiganCheese]

The assault on children continues...

Teach the children early that the all powerful state has control over every aspect of their lives. That way tyranny will be easier for them to accept when they are adults. If you don't go along, their life can be made miserable.

[Al Gator]

Those were the days when people could actually think.

Stupidity is the rule of the day now.

Watch, these idiots will defend their imbecilic actions with all the intensity of a pit bull.

And then accuse YOU of being out of step!

[demlosers]

So did I. We live in the pansy era of 24 hour hyper news.

[Sender]

This whole 'zero tolerance', theres-nothing-we-can-do mentality has permeated the workplace as well. Some buffoon of a manager spills coffee on an important report and declares that coffee-spillers will be fired. Then mindless human resources goons apply the policy, mindlessly. Well heck, they probably learned mindless, illogical obedience in public school.

[Just another Joe]

Zero tolerance equals zero intelligence.

[TankerKC]

There is no acceptable reason for bringing a weapon to school.

There is no acceptable reason for you to be working in a school.

[-YYZ-]

"Glendening said a student in his son's class saw the utensil, knew what it was and told the substitute teacher about it."

Good little tattle-tale/brownshirt in training. When I was a kid that would have gotten you beaten up after school.

[tfecw]

I've had to correct several people (including Smithsonian guards) that it is not a weapon it's a pocket knife. I'm pretty sure everyone agrees one does not use a "weapon" to butter their toast. I don't use a weapon to open boxes or cut string either.

[Fast1]

I always had a pocket knife it also had a cap opener and a screwdriver.. What's the big deal here?

[zook]

Education BS bump

[petertare]

This seems a reasonable interpretation of school policy. Institution might be a terrorist training facility for 9 year olds. Needs further examination and vetting of all staff personnel.

[stinkerpot65]

Every educrat is a thug.

[PilloryHillary]

A knife gets a kid suspended for 10 days, but in Florida a kid throws a rubber band and is going to be expelled. Makes no sense.

[Sam Cree]

I think it all comes down to the Left wanting us all to be docile and meek, easy for the state to control. Start the training very young, make it part of our personalities.

There is a part of the female mind at work here too, remember when, as a kid, there was always a female adult, mother, grandmom, etc. who didn't want you to play with this or with that or do much of anything on your own?

[tacticalogic]

When I was a boy every 9 or 10 year old boy in school had a pocket knife and no one ever thought of it as a weapon or as a danger to anyone.

Heck, when I was in the 7th grade we were expected to have a pocket knife to properly sharpen pencils for the drafting exercises in shop class.