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Small Knife in Lunchbox Gets N.C. Student Suspended, Charged With Weapon Possession (last year)
Fox News ^ | December 29, 2010

Posted on 11/30/2011 3:44:37 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford told WRAL she accidentally took her father's lunchbox to Southern Lee High School in October instead of her own when school officials searched the lunchbox, along with several other students' possessions, possibly looking for drugs.

Ashley's father, Joe Smithwick told the station the lunchbox had a paring knife inside so that he could slice up an apple that accompanied it.

"It's just an honest mistake. That was supposed to be my lunch because it was a whole apple," he said.

But school officials didn't see it that way.

The athlete who takes college-level courses was suspended for the remainder for the school year, banned from campus and this month was charged with misdemeanor possession of a weapon on school grounds, WRAL reported.

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To: Venturer
Supposedly educated intelligent people making dumb decisions like this.

Education has never guaranteed intelligence.

21 posted on 11/30/2011 4:50:31 PM PST by WesternPacific (Deafness has its Advantages)
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To: Venturer
These principals who pull this crap have sh*t for brains.

I was in a customers home once and got led into a discussion about
education. I bluntly said those who cannot do, teach. Then I went on to
tell how useless Liberals Arts was to any possible future and it was a waste of time.
The look on her face was surprise. After she left, her husband told me
that she was a college instructor of liberal Arts! They took it pretty well
since they didn't fire me and wanted me to do more work on their home.

It was a proud moment.

22 posted on 11/30/2011 5:03:57 PM PST by MaxMax
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OMG, I despise what passes for public education. The whole system needs dismantling.


23 posted on 11/30/2011 5:17:46 PM PST by Jenny217
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To: The Brush
Zero tolerance for school age kids? Administrators need to lose their pensions for under inflated tires.

Zero tolerance for school adminitridiots.

24 posted on 11/30/2011 5:23:52 PM PST by nonsporting
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To: Clintonfatigued

The fruit of government education welfare. When will the “conservative” education welfare queens decide that their children are more important than “stuff”. “me-time”, etc., give up the obvious lie that their schools are “different”, and rescue their children?


25 posted on 11/30/2011 5:35:41 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Clintonfatigued
...discipline is usually less severe if a student who accidentally carries a weapon to school reports it rather than having a teacher find it.

Why the hell would you tell on yourself at all?

Oh for the day when every boy had a pocket knife, and no one worried about them using them.

26 posted on 11/30/2011 6:39:43 PM PST by heartwood
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To: Clintonfatigued; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; ...
More Zero-Intelligence insanity in pubic schools.



Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!

27 posted on 11/30/2011 7:31:26 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Sacajaweau; Clintonfatigued
Want to tell me how they have the power to selectively search for drugs in the first place??

Beacuse we have to really hammer home to children at a fairly young age that they live in a police state called the United States of America.

Land of the free...and all that.
28 posted on 11/30/2011 7:34:36 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hopefully her parents learned a VERY HARD lesson - that is when you send your chold to a public school, you put your chold in the hands of people that HATE SUCCESS and ACHIEVEMENT (i.e., OWS types). If you give them an opening, they will find a way to cut your chold down to size, and then they will hold a party (amongst themselves) to celebrate their latest ‘success’.


29 posted on 11/30/2011 7:35:52 PM PST by BobL ("Heartless" and "Inhumane" FReepers for Cain - we've HAD ENOUGH)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Ping


30 posted on 11/30/2011 7:36:39 PM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: Jonty30
It is possible that she was planning on sacrificing a new born baby during her lunch hour

No, couldn't be that, that'd be protected religious expression. They probably have a class for THAT.

31 posted on 11/30/2011 8:19:09 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Given that school administrators and teachers are not allowed to use their intellect, why should we believe that they are underpaid?


32 posted on 12/01/2011 4:39:16 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Every responsible parent in this country should reguire every one of their children to carry a sharp knife, a .45 casing and a peanut butter sandwich to school every day.

They can pick up their condoms from the school nurse and add that that to the mix.

That would stop this BS in a day.

33 posted on 12/01/2011 6:33:36 PM PST by elkfersupper
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