Posted on 02/25/2010 8:24:23 PM PST by Fiji Hill
Edited on 02/25/2010 8:36:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
PHOENIX - It was a day of reckoning for the Phoenix boy who accidentally brought a penknife to school in his backpack.
The school was considering expelling fifth grader Zane Champion, citing its zero-tolerance policy against weapons.
After a long night of deliberations, the school board decided not to expell Champion. The governing board met with Champion's family for nearly three hours Tuesday night at the Arizona School for the Arts in downtown Phoenix.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxphoenix.com ...
Do they use palate knives at the Arizona school of the arts for painting?
Do the use carving knives for teaching Kachina carvings?
The whole thing is ridiculous.
When LIBERALS who hate all things normal in America get out in charge they claim that the only tolerance you are to have with the states enforcement is that of homosexuality.
These low-ball scum thoroughly enjoy their power over your lives. 3 hours to talk to the parents? Garbage...three hours to come up with useless reason after useless reason why they think this little boy is a criminal in the book. They most likely used that time to threaten the parents with taking away their child unless they conformed and raise that little robot like a scum liberal.
Some one should shank these idiots with a #2 pencil.
It would be funny to see them ban pencils and pens in school.
In Calif, one can have a 3” knife.
At a Company, only a 2” knife.
In the Company kitchen, are 6” knives.
Duh?
Blame the lawyers. Schools do this so they won’t be held liable for guessing wrong.
Because the ex-hippie utopian-stupid baby boomer kids are now in charge(period).
There parents and practically ALL previous generations had common sense, the Boomers don’t. Look at who’s President!
If your knife is not folding it can be of any length, and you can carry it openly on your belt. I'm sure those 6" kitchen knives are not folding.
Folding knives that are "switchblades" are limited to 2", and the law is far more complex there.
Before you answer, consider all the uses for a knife.
You can use it for to cut a rope , or your steak. You can carve with it, wou can whittle with it or pick a sliver from your hand. It is a very versatile TOOL.
Only when it is turned against another living thing, is it a weapon. Unless this young man used it to harm or intimidate others, he had no weapon.
Try this on the LIBS and see what they say. Ask them to look it up in Webster's.
If you REALLY want to see heads explode, use the same argument for a firearm....
Back in the seventies I brought my fathers Samurai Sword to school to show my class and teachers. Most were in awe to see an authentic Samurai brought home from the jungles of Guadalcanal. If I did that today I would have been expelled and arrested. My how times have changed.
Beats me. Zero tolerance precludes ever making an honest mistake.
Yes you would have and times have certainly changed. In addition to being arrested you’d be told that in the final analysis your father was an American-racist-imperialist who was ‘’oppressing the poor Japanese’’.
My son accidentally brought a knife to school after a hiking trip with the Scouts. It was left in his jacket. He quietly slipped it into his backpack.
A qualified LEO can take a gun onto a plane but not a bottle of water.
Former scout. Used to have a very nice knife, not folding though.
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