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Boy who brought knife to school avoids expulsion
Myfoxphoenix ^ | 2/24/2010

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.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: akti; blade; education; knife; knives; schools; zerotolerance
Why are these "zero tolerance" outrages occurring with such regularity, and in all parts of the country?
1 posted on 02/25/2010 8:24:23 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

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.


2 posted on 02/25/2010 8:29:07 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: Fiji Hill

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.


3 posted on 02/25/2010 8:30:22 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: Fiji Hill

Some one should shank these idiots with a #2 pencil.
It would be funny to see them ban pencils and pens in school.


4 posted on 02/25/2010 8:33:04 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: Fiji Hill

In Calif, one can have a 3” knife.
At a Company, only a 2” knife.
In the Company kitchen, are 6” knives.
Duh?


5 posted on 02/25/2010 8:33:25 PM PST by OldArmy52 (Christmas 2009: Democrats give us Obama Cr*pCare, the t*rd that keeps on stinking.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Blame the lawyers. Schools do this so they won’t be held liable for guessing wrong.


6 posted on 02/25/2010 8:34:18 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Fiji Hill

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!


7 posted on 02/25/2010 8:41:11 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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To: OldArmy52
A couple of years ago I traveled to Austria on a Lufthansa flight.
Received the typical security screening for boarding. Once I was in my first-class seat they gave me a serrated metal steak knife with my meal.
I'm sure that offended the liberals on the airplane to no end! ;-)

8 posted on 02/25/2010 9:25:12 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: OldArmy52
In Calif, one can have a 3” knife.

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.

9 posted on 02/25/2010 9:27:08 PM PST by Greysard
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To: Fiji Hill
Is a knife a weapon?

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....

10 posted on 02/25/2010 9:29:33 PM PST by snowtigger (It ain't what you shoot, it's what you hit...)
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To: Fiji Hill

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.


11 posted on 02/25/2010 9:49:30 PM PST by Wiggins
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To: Fiji Hill

Beats me. Zero tolerance precludes ever making an honest mistake.


12 posted on 02/26/2010 5:02:03 AM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Wiggins

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’’.


13 posted on 02/26/2010 5:04:51 AM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Fiji Hill

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.


14 posted on 02/26/2010 5:07:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Blue Jays

A qualified LEO can take a gun onto a plane but not a bottle of water.


15 posted on 02/26/2010 5:13:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

Former scout. Used to have a very nice knife, not folding though.


16 posted on 02/26/2010 6:10:17 AM PST by BenKenobi (And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.)
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