Knives are arms protected by the Second Amendment.
It’s only like the first thing anyone would bring with them if they went camping.
This is the epitome of absurdity. Someone needs to get bashed and beaten and it isn’t the little boy.
When I was a Scout, we had to have our whittling chip before we could carry our Swiss Army knife. Prior to that, we were allowed to keep them in our bags but not on a lanyard on our belts.
The pussification of our boys continues unabated. Is it any wonder why our boys are having trouble in school and life?
You are right about the policies but keep in mind that we also have adults — teachers and other educators — who implement them. I don’t know what adult in their right mind would suspend a child for doing something this innocent. It traumatizes the child for no reason. It teaches the child that there is no connection between bad intent and punishment. It teaches a child to be fearful of authority figures, or to not respect them. Ultimately, these policies will be very damaging to our society when the kids who had to suffer through them become young adults.
Wow, times have really changed. I remember getting a cub scouts pocket knife in 1976. I was so proud of that knife I carried it every day in my pocket to school and everywhere else. It was not an issue then. It seems these days that the innocent are punished while the guilty have excuses made for their behavior.
the whole zero tolerance is ridiculous. my daughters (7 and 9) each have a small gerber knife. they know when and how to use them, they carry them the whole time they’re with me. i have no fear that they’ll do anything “bad” with them. the only supervision they get with them is to make sure they don’t take them to school.
Each and every day we are presented with more reasons to eliminate public schools and to imprison and torture all public school administration officials.
Principals and superintendents go to Gitmo, where special water boarding rooms equiped with 120db hip hop music will be awaiting these slime balls.
Does your child go to public school?
Why?
This is why kids are afraid of their own shadow. They can’t even draw a picture without consequences. Kids don’t know the difference between right and wrong because it seems everything is wrong. Our armed forces will pay dearly in the very near future.
Groucho Marx’ statement about not wanting to belong to a club that would have him as a member is more prolific than ever.
I am not sure I would want my family or myself taking part in organizations that have such single sighted vision.
The step mother was there(?- accordingly), common sense would say, if you don’t want the kid to have an ESSENTIAL tool, that fits the adventure, confiscate it, give it to the mother or guardian and be done with it. Oh yes, return it at the end of the week and maybe revise the ‘What is allowed and what isn’t list’.
The kid may have just been arming himself in case of an animal attack (2 legged, boogy man), they are in SF after all. (of course if you have female counselors - leader appears to be F, plus mentions mothers)
ANOTHER great, informative headline.
Doesn’t ANYONE read this stuff anymore?
The headline cites an ‘overnighter’, the story says the father should pick the kid up for a ONE DAY suspension and return them, then it says the camp is for a week.
“The school principal, Brandi Hucko”
IMO, female principals are a large percentage of the problem in public schools. They do not understand young males, bonding, the need for adventure, competition and proving yourself. They consider everything that’s sharp and pointy a weapon, and want to ban any activity that can lead to injury. Unless the little boys act like little girls they think something is wrong with them.
“He has a weapon.”
How utterly stupid many of today’s so-called educators are!
It reminds me of a few years ago when flying out of San Diego’s Lindbergh Field. I had purchased a small toy revolver from the Roy Rogers Museum for one of my grandsons.
When the carryon conveyed up the belt and under the X-Ray the female idiot security screener jumped back, threw her hands up in the air and shouted “He has a gun!”
The damned thing was about eight inches long and it took 45 minutes to get the situation straightened out.
It was inevitable. After the guns - then the knives - one with points and blades anyway.
Baseball bats will be next.
Zero Tolerance Intelligence policies reflect an inability or unwillingness on the part of supposed adults to make value judgments; to distinguish, to discriminate. But increasingly, they cannot or will not do so.
Such failure is a symptom of our society's moral and ethical collapse in the face of the Progressive ideology. Because "discrimination is... mmm... y'know, bad, m'kay???"
And that's why we're pretty much doomed.
Post one liberal icon against another.
So, how was he supposed to dissect a frog?
It should be a school requirement to bring a utility knife when camping and to know how to use it.
In the ‘70’s, on a school field trip to Philadelphia, I bought a promotional 2” bowie knife with the 76ers logo on it. Probably couldn’t have stabbed butter with that Taiwanese blade, but neither did I get in trouble.
Now, my youngest son loves knives. But he knows better than to take one to his Christian school. Girl got in trouble there for bringing a butter knife in with her lunch.
Not sure how much trouble. Probably “don’t ever bring that here again” rather than national spotlight for being expelled, but she’s still used as an example for the rest.