Middle School Girl Gets Suspended for Possessing a Butter Knife

The Daily Signal ^ | December 19, 2016 | David Rosenthal

[detective]

Who would have thought a butter knife could become the center of a school controversy? Last month, officials at Silver Trail Middle School near Miami, Florida, suspended an 11-year-old honors student for violating a county policy strictly prohibiting weapons on campus. The girl’s weapon of choice: a butter knife fit for a toddler. To highlight the dangers of having this dull knife on campus, the police noted to state prosecutors that the girl used it to cut a peach. Such is the folly of overcriminalization: Every minor mishap gets crammed into the criminal justice system when it could be easily resolved by other means.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I guess I just don’t know what is so hard to understand. The school has a rule that says no knife can be brought to school. That is the rule.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Try as hard as you like to turn back the clock to the good ole days, that is not reality today. If you want to fix what you see as a problem, dive it. You have a local PTA in your school district. Start there.

Or better yet, go to the local school board meeting, pull out a public speaker slip and then tell them you think kids should be allowed to carry a knife to school.

[zeugma]

Are you sure you’re on the right site? I figure your delicate sensitivities would feel a lot more comfortable with the snowflakes over at DU.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Are you sure you’re on the right site? I figure your delicate sensitivities would feel a lot more comfortable with the snowflakes over at DU.

Deflection is a liberal debating tactic. Stick to the subject.

So, what are you going to do to convince your local school board to allow students to bring knives to school? Seriously.

[NorthMountain]

Government schools are the problem; the only solution is to abolish them. I have no interest in "fixing" government schools. They are unfixable.

You advocate continuing to let the inmates run the asylum. Continuing to use 'schools' as warehouses for feral hominids is insane. Privatize the schools, expel the feral hominids, treat the students like the growing citizens of a free country that they are.

The PTA, nor the NEA, nor the School Board have any interest in doing these things. They derive their power from the current abominable situation.

[NorthMountain]

In dangerous schools

See ... there's your problem, right there. Is it a school, or is it a warehouse for feral hominids? Make up your mind!

[NorthstarMom]

Again, why are you placing your precious daughters in an institution with children who are likely to use a knife as a shiv?

I can’t fathom doing that to my kids. And, like I stated earlier, it was a tremendous risk for us to homeschool and it did end up costing my husband his job. We’d still do it all over again.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Liberals have attempted to replace common sense with political correctness. What is worse is that up until Trump, the Republicans played their game. Hopefully Trump’s example will encourage other wimpy Republicans to grow a pair.

[zeugma]

Take a look at this thread and you'll see that you're pretty much universally agreed to be the thread bedwetter.

Anyone who thinks there was any intent of the butter knife in question to be a weapon is an idiot. You seem to be the only one willing to make that jump. I think you might need to reexamine your 'reasoning'.

[gunsequalfreedom]

See ... there's your problem, right there. Is it a school, or is it a warehouse for feral hominids? Make up your mind!

Try sending your kids to one. Very challenging situation made much worse if the kids are allowed to bring a knife to school.

[xrmusn]

They’d better ban pencil’s.
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And fingers.

After all, there is a nail embedded in (most) fingers!!!!

[gunsequalfreedom]

You advocate continuing to let the inmates run the asylum.

I did not advocate anything, and certainly not the present condition of our schools. But in their present condition, I am not of a mind to have my kid going to school with other kids being allowed to carry a knife with them. I'm happy for you if your kids go to a school without the daily challenge of gangs.

[NorthMountain]

So you admit that your 'school' is really just a warehouse for feral hominids ... and your solution is to ban butter knives.

Dude, I'm not the one with a problem. I'm the one with a solution. Perhaps you're just not ready to face reality.

[Rebelbase]

“It’s basically a shiv”

A butter knife? Why not ban pencils, pens, rulers, tools etc.?

Get your kid into a safer school.

[Agamemnon]

I also carried a pocket knife with me to school. You were responsible. Kids were responsible. It is not that way any more.

I don't believe you when you say you carried a knife to school as a kid. You are getting so bitch slapped on this thread for your phony handwringing, you are just looking stupider and stupider as you vainly try to re-establish some semblance of relevance on this thread.

I'll venture that the Eagle Scout of which I spoke was far better qualified to manage what he could responsibly do with a knife than you ever have been.

Maybe you still run around in your crib holding sharp objects, despite what your mother's and babysitter's frequent admonishments to the contrary have been. Then again, maybe all you are really telling us is that you were untrustworthy with a knife when you were a kid.

Too bad for you.

There are a substantial number of kids these days who conduct themselves in a mature and responsible manner. I know many. Apparently you know none. That sad fact reflects poorly on you alone, and on the nanny state you cherish, not on kids today.

To top it off, you are blaming someone else for the guys irresponsible behavior. Just like a liberal. What are you doing on FR?

Well, snowflake, let's just say I have been on FR since the time you were probably still sucking your thumb in a steaming Demo-diaper, now loaded as it is with what's left of your fetid intellect.

Guess you missed the fact that the school was sending a mixed message by having stainless steel knives intended for cutting food in the cafeteria -- as this Eagle Scout was doing responsibly in his car, outside the building and in the presence of no one else but himself.

We beat back the pantywaiste School Administrators, and I together with other Freepers will happily dispatch with pantywaistes like you on this thread as well.

[Yaelle]

My friend’s daughter was expelled for a Midol type pill for menstrual cramps.

[sport]

I carried a pocket knife when I went to school when I wanted to ans so did all the other students. The boys taking woodworking shop brought their guns to school on the school bus to work on their stocks. The shop teacher would keep them in his office and give them to them while they were in class to work on. After class, they students would turn them back in to the teacher. When they were finished, they took them home with them on the school bus. That was back before the feminfication and sissification began.

[Eroteme]

Try sending your kids to one. Very challenging situation made much worse if the kids are allowed to bring a knife to school.

If "very challenging" is a euphemism for dangerous, I sincerely hope this article and its comments might be an eye opener for you--not in the sense that you might suddenly slap your forehead and say, oh, yeah, I see where my reasoning broke down here. But in the sense that the underlying reasons for your passion on the issue can be addressed.

I say this in kindness, and I hope you take it that way. This thread has gotten contentious, and I don't want to pile on. Most are commenting on the issue in a general sense; speaking to the issues raised by the original article. For you, this seems very personal. If you believe you have no other option than to send your child into danger, day after day, in hopes that bureaucratic policies will keep him/her safe, I can understand your defensiveness. But the good news is, there are always options. Freepers are an incredibly generous bunch, with a wealth of experience and resources they'd gladly share with you if you were interested in learning ways in which you wouldn't be faced with sending your child to a school where a child's butter knife is seen as a shiv.

As parents, our chief responsibility is to keep our children safe. You can take offense at everyone's comments and plant your feet, or you can look at it as an opportunity to maybe, just maybe, see you and your child out of this "very challenging" daily situation. What have you got to lose?

[gunsequalfreedom]

Nice reply. And have not read whatever other comments yet but not too worried. I’ve been alone and correct before. FreepRegards to you.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I still have the pocket knife. I carried it to school when I was a kid. We all did. Not understanding your point. For sure don’t remember seeing you at my school back in the 60’s. We’re you there?

Anyhow,bread on down to your local school board meeting and insist they allow kids to bring a knife to school and we will see who gets “batch slapped” over their position.