[Neverforget01]

This is nuts!

[Neverforget01]

Laura Dennis’ son Graham had a pen knife and a Leatherman that school authorities found while they searched a team bus before it headed to a game. He now faces jail time and damage to his permanent record.

[Responsibility2nd]

So? What did they find in their equipment bags?

[Hatteras]

So... what did they find in their bags?

[doodad]

A lighter, pen knife and leatherman. Geez.

[cherry]

I’ll just jump to a conclusion that these are probably white boys.....wonder if they ever check the basketball bus?....of course not...

[cherry]

my solution.....everybody in the school start carrying a leatherman like tool (maker of leatherman apparently a closet leftist) or a pen knife.....I’d like to see the school do this to all the kids...fools and idiots...

[momtothree]

This is beyond stupid. There is no indication that the boys did anything with the tools then to simply possess them with their equipment.

[lesko]

Nuts as it is yet this is the kind of stuff that shows people what happens when you put nanny-state liberal Democrats in charge of school districts.

[Crim]

Pen knife and lighter vs lacross stick.

Idiots...

Next they will arrest the baseball team for having Bats...

[ElkGroveDan]

Bureaucrats and other petty tyrants love to hide behind their anonymity. The parents need to figure out the names of everyone involved in this decision and start handing out fliers and marching with protest signs where the NAMES of those people figure prominently. Seriously. It works.

[yldstrk]

Yeah my daughter, a figure skater, had a screwdriver in her skate bag for her skates. Wonder what those kooks would have thought about that. Looney Tunes.

My friend used a lighter to melt her mascara before putting it on. Wonder if she should have been arrested.

[WoofDog123]

america has so quickly become a police state at so many levels. Historically, I don’t know any precedents which had things getting better without getting much much worse first once a republic reaches this state.

[Navy Patriot]

The basic problem is that the parents of these kids didn't do enough research to understand that they should never had their kids in public school in the first place.

Public school is child abuse.

Zero tolerance public school administrators are simply Pharaohs in their own personal taxpayer funded fiefdoms.

[paulycy]

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[paul51]

the citizens of easton can breath easier now that this threat has been removed from their midst /s

[fella]

On the other side of the Potomac where I attended high school in the 60’s the Hunting Club kept their rifles in our lockers during the day so we could talk about them at the meetings after class. I find it hard to believe how much of our freedom we have lost.

[MarkL]

The Maryland state school board is already taking a look at whether zero-tolerance policies go too far.

The results are back, and the MD state school board has determined that their "zero tolerance" standards weren't strict enough, and that the lacrosse sticks are potentially deadly weapons, and the last time the lacrosse team boarded the bus, the entire team was handcuffed, arrested, and processed by the police.

It's been a long time since I've played LAX (1988), but things sure have changed in the equipment... The first thing that I noticed is the all the players are now using nylon mesh for the nets on the crosse (which explains the lighter, to ensure the cut ends don't fray), and a pen knife or Leatherman tool is needed for making adjustments to the net and crosse. Back in my day, we used leather and nylon laces.

Mark

[Eldon Tyrell]

Anyone who approved this assault needs to be fired before the end of the day.

We have plenty of people with brains in their heads to replace them.

In fact - anyone this stupid - would improve the result by not even being replaced.

As a side note - I wonder how many Lax bags in this country have similar “dangerous materials” in them. I have to go take the screwdrivers out of my son’s bag now.

[JayAr36]

School officials and Educators are proof positive that there are people that can be educated far beyond their intelligence.