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.
Can the boys wear belts to hold up their pants?
Sharpened pencils make good weapons.
Socks can be stuffed in other kids mouths, etc, etc...
Knives can be used as tools, such as an eating utensil. A stone on your desk can be a paperweight, or thrown as a weapon. This is a total lack of common sense.
I remember one day in Jr. High, word got around that a science teacher who was an amateur archeologist, collected old military weapons, uniforms etc.. He brought in a WW-II Thompson sub-machine gun and we all went to his classroom to look it over and hold it. Imagine that today.
I’ve eaten with a knife and fork all my life...
I always ask foir a knife at picnics etc when they are not offered...
I taught my children to eat with a knife (in the right hand) and fork (in the left hand) and now I teach my grandchildren...
Hello...cultural thing...I would be highly offended if my family member/students were stopped from cutting tough school lunches...
America reminds me of the Roman Republic, just before it became an empire. This is just nuts.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
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The same sh%%heads who run every FL public school.
Here in the boondocks where I live, in California, it is still a common sight to see kids walking down the road with BB and pellet guns. Sometimes with .22 rifles. Of course this is a very rural area, with the lowest crime rate in the entire state.
They don't, necessarily.
However, the "authorities" will ignore the ordinary citizens until a goodly percentage of them start sabotaging the "law" and administer justice to the bureaucrat public servants masters as a group. Then they pay attention while incandescent with rage toward the citizenry.
The public school systems today are run by people who have no common sense to make the slightest adult decision. They're imbeciles.
It is essential that schools be safe and orderly to provide environments that foster learning and high academic achievement. This policy implements the State Board of Education’s zero tolerance policy as outlined in State Board rules.
I. Students found to have committed the following offenses on school property, school-sponsored transportation or during a school-sponsored activity shall be brought before the Board for expulsion:
(a) homicide (murder, manslaughter);
(b) sexual battery;
(c) armed robbery;
(d) aggravated battery;
(e) battery, aggravated battery or threats to a teacher
or other school personnel;
(f) kidnapping or abduction;
(g) arson;
(h) possession, use, or sale of any firearm
or other weapon as defined in the current code of
student conduct;
(i) possession, use or sale of any explosive device;
(j) possession, use, or sale of controlled substances; or;
(k) threat or false report to do harm related to bombs or
weapons. The expulsion limit is a minimum one (1) full year.
What do you expect? Teachers run schools like prisons. It is only natural that using a knife to cut your food wouldn’t be allowed in a high security prison. Why should it be allowed in a school? /sarc
As Newt Gingrich succinctly put it: “modern, bureaucratic, unionized education is a form of intellectual child abuse.”
Funny, I can't think of a thing to disprove that allegation.
Yup totally insane.
Schools today = Jails. End of story.
These people should receive emails pointing out just how idiotic they are for YEARS.
These schools are Communist breeding grounds. If she came into school with condoms and promoting the ‘gay’ lifestyle, she would have been applauded.
Who needs the Taliban when we have schools like this?
No, they are following a very clear plan.
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.
What's to assess? And who's paying for the "assessment"? When is somebody going to "assess" all the idiots who perpetrate this crap?
Nope. Let the punishment fit the crime. Puncture them all over with the steak knife. Let each kid at the school have one poke at each guilty adult. Give the adults a chance to beg each kid for mercy, and let each kid decide whether to grant said mercy. Remind the kids that these adults don't believe in applying common sense when making decisions, and that these adults have also taught them that they must respect the beliefs of others, no matter how bizarre.
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