[No_More_Harkin]

Scissors are a weapon. Mechanical pencils (and regular ones), baseball bats, any kind of glass, forks and knives from the cafeteria, and the list goes on.
Why isn’t this person suing the pants off this school?

[Paladin2]

Paper (and therefore a page from a book) can cause a nasty slice if administered properly.

[Grut]

Scissors are a weapon. Mechanical pencils (and regular ones), baseball bats, any kind of glass, forks and knives from the cafeteria, and the list goes on.

That's a thought: instead of suing them to stop, sue them to extend the list to all potential weapons, and then to all things that look like them. Then look terribly pious and claim it's for the children.