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Knife At Lunch Gets 10-Year-Old Girl Arrested At School
WFTV.COM ^ | 12/14/07 | WFTV.COM

Posted on 12/17/2007 12:36:23 PM PST by DFG

OCALA, Fla. -- A 10-year old Ocala girl brought her lunch to school and a small kitchen knife to cut it. She now faces a felony charge after being arrested. The school and the sheriff's office disagree on the reason for the arrest.

School officials say the 5th grader was brown-bagging it. She brought a piece of steak for her lunch, but she also brought a steak knife. That's when deputies were called.

It happened in the cafeteria at Sunrise Elementary School. The 10-year-old used the knife to cut the meat.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: discipline; florida; pc; threadnumber3; zerotolerance
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To: DFG

Zero tolerance just means lazy. They are un-willing to use the brain God gave them.


81 posted on 12/17/2007 1:58:26 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE ("life is dangerous")
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To: subterfuge

I bet the kid has a higher I.Q. than the teachers.


82 posted on 12/17/2007 1:59:00 PM PST by lonestar
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To: goodwithagun

Hey teacher, please say “fewer people” in your tag line rather then “less people”. Its a good point otherwise.


83 posted on 12/17/2007 2:02:07 PM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: donna
Old rule:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611173/posts?page=48#48

84 posted on 12/17/2007 2:05:31 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: George from New England

What brain!


85 posted on 12/17/2007 2:14:05 PM PST by jrd
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To: DFG
When I went to school, there was one kind of weapon that was used to inflict more physical damage on students, than all others put together, the hands of bullies.

Almost any tool can be used as a weapon. The thing that makes it a weapon, is the person using it. Unfortunately, school administrators are completely incompetent when it comes to identifying real weapons at school.

86 posted on 12/17/2007 2:41:39 PM PST by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: DFG
At a high School in Montana a group of high schoolers played a prank on the school. They let three goats loose in the school. Before they let them go they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1,2,4.

Local school administrators spent most of The day looking for #3.

87 posted on 12/17/2007 2:47:29 PM PST by lonestar
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To: JamesP81
I don't know if that would help you. After all, it was a jury that actually indicted the Duke Lacrosse players.

Grand jury. As the old saying goes, a prosecutor can cause a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

88 posted on 12/17/2007 3:12:57 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: DFG
"School officials say the 5th grader was brown-bagging it. She brought a piece of steak for her lunch, but she also brought a steak knife. That's when deputies were called."

Unbelievable.

"It happened in the cafeteria at Sunrise Elementary School. The 10-year-old used the knife to cut the meat."

In a cafeteria, too?

Just imagine if the brainstems running the *school* found an aspirin in the kid's lunch box along with the steal knife, also.

Forget mere expulsion.

...we're talking death penalty.

89 posted on 12/17/2007 3:18:01 PM PST by Landru (Reality hits the faithful the hardest.)
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To: jrd

“What brain”

That missing organ in the vacuum between ears.


90 posted on 12/17/2007 3:32:05 PM PST by George from New England
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To: A.A. Cunningham

I guess it could be posted every 3-days forever. It’s still old news.


91 posted on 12/17/2007 4:36:55 PM PST by donna (Obama on cocaine: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.")
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To: Domandred

>>>>What the hell. What happened to PB&J for kids sack lunch.

PB&J is not allowed under the Healthy School programs anymore.


92 posted on 12/17/2007 4:38:41 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: massgopguy

Plastic. They don’t cut anything. I send utensils in with my children too.


93 posted on 12/17/2007 4:39:22 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Ole Okie
Grand jury. As the old saying goes, a prosecutor can cause a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

I would suggest that that same prosecutor could get a trial jury to convict the same said ham sandwich. In the Duke case in particular, if those boys hadn't had wealthy parents, they'd all be sitting in a state prison as we speak.
94 posted on 12/17/2007 4:42:28 PM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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To: Amos the Prophet
Isn’t it wonderfull!

That same contempt will come in very handy, very soon!

95 posted on 12/17/2007 5:02:09 PM PST by sarasmom
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To: DFG

It’s a good thing she didn’t have Alaskan king crab legs for lunch.

Brings to mind a new advert: Stay in school and get arrested.


96 posted on 12/17/2007 5:45:39 PM PST by Duke Nukum (He burns at the center of time and he sees the turn of the Universe.)
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To: AndyTheBear

It is part of the joke.


97 posted on 12/18/2007 5:59:04 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: DFG

This little girl is being abused by Political Correctness which replaced Common Sense in this country some 50 years ago. This sad story is right up there with Second Hand Smoke and the recent and rude Fart Ad......time to tell the PC crowd to P*** Off - get a life and leave the rest of us alone.


98 posted on 12/18/2007 6:28:48 AM PST by yoe ( NO THIRD TERM FOR THE CLINTON'S!!!)
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