They are even starting to growl while they gnaw.
Posted on 12/14/2007 4:52:40 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
An elementary student in Marion County was arrested Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said.
The 10-year-old girl, a student at Sunrise Elementary School in Ocala, was charged possession of a weapon on school property, which is a felony.
According to authorities, school employees spotted the girl cutting her food while she was eating lunch and took the steak knife from her.
The girl told sheriff's deputies that she had brought the knife to school on more than one occasion in the past.
Students told officials that the girl did not threaten anyone with the knife.
The girl was arrested and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Note the tag line.
Whiskey tango foxtrot
I’m a steak...I need a lawyer...help, help. Call the school principal...
They are even starting to growl while they gnaw.
“The public school systems today are run by people who have no common sense to make the slightest adult decision. They’re imbeciles.”
Your statement is on the nose!
Imagine if she had been wearing a crucifix, was carrying a bible, or had drawn a picture of a gun!
Public schools are a perfect example of marxism in action. When Hillary gets into power, supported by a marxist congress, we’ll see the same thing throughout the whole United States.
I doubt there’s a school anywhere in the country that doesn’t have a “Zero Tolerance” policy. I doubt there’s a kid in the country that doesn’t know about the “Zero Tolerance” policy at their school.
If parents finally wake up and decide they don’t want their little darlings hauled off to jail because the school is serving steak for lunch and the kids have no way to politely eat it, they should band together and work on getting rid of the Zero Thought Allowed school policies.
Why do people tolerate such asinine policies?
It was a case of the slow boiling pot.
A teenaged drug dealer is spotted with pills. He is arrested and at trial the attorney asked what made the school officials think the pills were illegal. They could have been aspirin, Tylenol ...
All forms of pills were made illegal in school. “Zero Tolerance”
A gangbanger is caught with a knife. Why is that honor student allowed to have a knife? Knives are added to zero tolerance.
With Zero Tolerance is born Zero Thought Allowed.
We, the People allow it because it saves money defending the school from law suits. It ensures all students will be treated exactly the same regardless of attitude, dress, race creed or color.
Until We, the People stand up these Zero Thought Allowed policies will continue.
It's the latest trend.
That district ain’t got nuttin’ on one here in Texas. They arrested a girl who had a butter knife between the front and back seat of her car. It fell out of a box when she was helping her grandmother move some things from a storage unit to her new home.
She's got a gumball! ZAP her again!
Where have you been for the last 40 years - all edumacational professionals are lobotomized prior to hiring.
It's in the contract.
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Why don’t teachers stand up? Hey! They are the guys and gals with the keys to the school. They are the people who open the doors to this idiocy every day.
There are three groups here: Teachers, “Parents With Kids in Government Schools”, and the “Rest of Us” .
I place teachers into one or more of 3 groups:
1) They are too stupid to understand that what they are doing to this child is emotional child abuse.
2) They DO know that it is emotional child abuse but are greedy for a paycheck, generous benefits, and an exceptional pension.
3) They are evil and enjoy seeing a 10 year girl and her family suffer.
As for the “Parents Whose Kids Use Government Schools”, I bet that school was full of students the next day. These parents fall into one or more of 4 groups:
1) They are too stupid to understand that if this abuse could happen to another parent’s child, it could happen to theirs.
2) They DO know this, but are addicted to the free babysitting.
3) They send their child to the government school because they can not **ransom** their kid by paying extra money for private or home schooling. They KNOW that if they don’t cooperate with these government bureaucrats armed police will be at the door. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip.)
4) They are evil and enjoy seeing their and other children suffer. ( Maybe as a result of their own suffering in government schools as a kid.)
Then there are the “Rest of Us”:
1) We are swamped at the polling booth by the other groups who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Is my use of the term “child abuse” too strong? I don’t think so.
This 10 year old is facing **felony** charges. Hm? Doesn’t that have very, very serious consequences for her and her future? Why aren’t we as citizens rising up and demanding that these government school workers be charged and prosecuted for emotional child abuse? This is like beating a child to a pulp except it is done emotionally.
As for her parents, they will be “punished” and financially abused with very high legal fees just to defend their daughter against these government workers’ emotional abuse.
Aren’t government schools great? (barf!)
What is really irritating is when government school teachers act as if they were Mother Teresa. ( It’s for the chiiiildren, you see.)
Ever try to cut shoe leather with a plastic knife?
Why do people tolerate such asinine policies?
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Please read post #156.
“sending your child to public school is prima facie child abuse.”
What’s YOUR solution? Home Schooling? I don’t know about your house, but we’ve got all kinds of knives at my house.
That can’t be safe.
The knife could have been taken from her by another student.
But, .....................The girl was arrested and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center. is so far past the level of stupidity it is beyond words.
How about the school administrators take the knife away and explain to her it was a bad idea to bring a metal knife to school and give her a plastic knife to use.
OMG how much common sense does that take!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A phone call to her parents to explain the situation would have sufficed
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