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.
If that were my kid, I’d have every friend of mine who had kids in that district, backing me up, and we would storm into that asshole principal’s office and make sure my daughter did NOT lose an entire year’s education. My kid wouldn’t be taken out of school for something so stupid and moronic as having a knife to cut food.
Hmmmm, why wouldn’t a knife (or fork or spork) issued by the school be equally a weapon under this policy and why therefore is not every child in that cafeteria arrested for possession and use of a weapon?