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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This is just absurd. She didn’t bring an automatic gun to school, just a harmless paring knife.
I think that more American parents should adopt a zero-tolerance policy for public schools.
She should claim to be a Sikh or something. lol
This kind of crap boggles my mind.
Zero tolerance for school age kids? Administrators need to lose their pensions for under inflated tires.
I guess the 4th amendment is gone along with common sense.
Want to tell me how they have the power to selectively search for drugs in the first place??
Zero Intelligence. Another reason my son dropped out of Public School the first semester of kindergarten.
The parents should lawyer up and sue the ass off the school and everybody involved. This is a clear case of so-called political correctness run amok. Rediculous. Absurd.
C’mon people, you are not considering the possible intent of this young woman.
It is possible that she was planning on sacrificing a new born baby during her lunch hour>
Same thing as the fact that blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of the murders is discrimination.
The solution for that is to increase the murder rate by whites, who are exhibiting racism by murdering at a lower rate.
Want to tell me how they have the power to selectively search for drugs in the first place??
Kids are owned by the State while they are in school. They have little in the way of rights except any rights that further the leftist cause.
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Don’t entrust your child to these government scoundrels.
“Want to tell me how they have the power to selectively search for drugs in the first place??”
That battle was lost a long time ago.
Supposedly educated intelligent people making dumb decisions like this.
This is what we have teaching in our school, and they want more money.
These principals who pull this crap have sh*t for brains.
Jeez. North Carolina. I’d have expected this in New England.
You can see pickups with Confederate flags, but apparently the NC schools are run by PC idiots who can’t tell a paring knife and uncut apple from a serious weapon. If the honor student was part of a special protected minority who had caused trouble before, they would forget the whole thing in the interest of mainstreaming her and keeping her in the educational system.
No, this girl’s mistake was enrolling in a public school run by gutless idiots who hide behind zero tolerance policies.
I can’t wait for the day when cyber schools are up and running and kids can learn in the safety and comfort of their own homes rather than risking their reputations over stupidity like a paring knife in a lunch box.
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