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Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District

Gene Buinger, Superintendent

817-283-4461 x220

district policy and the Texas Education Code prohibit a student from possessing an illegal knife, one with a blade longer than 5 and a half inches that is "designed to cut or stab another by being thrown," according to the Texas Penal Code.

Looks like a box cutter would be allowed.

From its website

Faculty and Staff E-mail ...........(NOT LISTED)*

*As mandated by the Superintendent and the Communications Department:
Faculty and staff e-mail addresses, other than head administrators and principals, are intentionally not posted on the HEB ISD Web site. HEB ISD employees may find e-mail listings to all employees in the address book within the GroupWise Network. Parents may request e-mail addresses directly from their child's teachers. All other e-mail addresses may be requested through the Superintendent's office.

Based on the below, I think buingerg@hebisd.edu is a reasonable guess for an email address.

OFFICIAL	DESCRIPTION	FIRST_NAME	LAST_NAME	STREET_ADDRESS	CITY	STATE	ZIP	ZIPEXT	AREACODE	PHONE	FAX	EMAIL
SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT EXEC ADMINISTRATOR	GENE	BUINGER	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543309
BOARD MEMBER	DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS	LORRAINE	TATAREVICH	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2824384	3143156	ltatarevich@home.com
BOARD MEMBER	DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS	RON	MAY	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2821211	5719151	1ronmay@home.com
BOARD MEMBER	DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS	TOMMY	TAYLOR	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2684651	3143302	tommytaylor-heb@home.com
BOARD MEMBER	DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS	ELLEN	JONES	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	5711744	5454561	west411@email.msn.com
BOARD PRESIDENT	DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS	JOHN	CLANTON	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2859121	3143175	johnclanton@home.com
BOARD SECRETARY	DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS	FAYE	BEAULIEU	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	6858156	5715119	fayebeaulieu@home.com
BOARD VICE-PRESIDENT	DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS	JEFF	BURNETT	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	7888105	3159572	jeff@firsthurst.com
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT STAFF	JOY	BUSEY	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	buseyj@hebias.edu
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT STAFF	STEVE	CHAPMAN	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	chapmans@hebisd.edu
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT STAFF	KARRY	CHAPMAN	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543557	chapmank@hebisd.edu
ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT STAFF	GLEN	CUMMINS	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	cumminsg@hebisd.edu
ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT STAFF	PAUL	FANNIN	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	fanninp@hebisd.edu
AT-RISK/DROPOUT PREVENTION	DISTRICT STAFF	MARY	MCCABE-MORRIS	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	mccabe@hebisd.edu
BUSINESS MANAGER	DISTRICT STAFF	MICHELE	BECK	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543558	beckm@hebisd.edu
CHILD FIND CONTACT	DISTRICT STAFF	BARBARA	BRADSHAW	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	bradshawb@hebisd.edu
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT STAFF	DONNA	RAWLINGS	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	rawlngsd@hebisd.edu
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT	DISTRICT STAFF	LYNNE	RIGG	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543558	riggl@hebisd.edu
PEIMS COORDINATOR	DISTRICT STAFF	PAUL	FANNIN	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	fanninp@hebisd.edu
SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER	DISTRICT STAFF			1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096
SPECIAL EDUCATION DIRECTOR	DISTRICT STAFF	MARIAN	CLINTON	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	clintonm@hebisd.edu
TAAS COORDINATOR	DISTRICT STAFF	KIM	ROSE	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	rosek@hebisd.edu
TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR	DISTRICT STAFF	JOHN	SELLGREN	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3549408	sellgrej@hebisd.edu
TED ADMINISTRATOR	DISTRICT STAFF	JUDY	RAMOS	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543311	ramosj@hebisd.edu
WEB ER CONTACT	DISTRICT STAFF	MICHELE	BECK	1849 CENTRAL DR	BEDFORD	TX	76022	6096	817	2834461	3543558	beckm@hebisd.edu

I saw the knife on TV a minute ago. It's one of those real long serrated bread knives.
It would bend in half if you tried to stab anyone.

That makes more sense than the article that describes it as nonserrated.
I thought ALL bread knives would be serrated, wouldn't they?............

Cheap dollar store box cutters-the weapon of choice for fashionable teenage girls. They come in a variety of colors to match any outfit and can easily fit inside of a handbag or the pockets of those hip-hugger jeans.

Actually, if schrool administrators think that a bread knife is a weapon, then that is one more reason not to send kids to public school. A bread knife is only a weapon if you are a loaf of bread.

The first point to this is that there isn't a Federal Law that covers this topic. The reason being is that the US Supreme Court over-turned the old Federal "Gun-Free School Zone" law saying that the Federal Government cannot govern state issues. No Federal Law applies here.

The second is that these are "policies" and not laws and this policy is set by each school district. So...it is up to the school district to make the call on this infraction.

That makes more sense than the article that describes it as nonserrated.

It looked like this (above) but thinner. Flimsy looking and cheap. The kind of bread knife that bends real easy.

I ran all the bread knife images I could find against my "moronic school administrator conversion software". It gives you an idea what the "edu-crats" saw when they looked at the knife with their "edu-crat eyes":

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This is unbelieveable. What is wrong with today's school administrators -- they used to do nothing and now they have this kneejerk reaction. It would be one thing if the boy had threatened someone but to have a bread knife in his pickup after moving his Grandmother and to be expelled for that is ludicrous!

What has happened to good old fashioned common sense?

Well, this Bozo administrator have provided the perfect roadmap for getting rid of a school rival in Texas -- bring a knife to campus and slip it in the bed of said rival's pickup. Maybe even leave it on the roof of the sedan. Then tell security you saw a KNIFE at said car.

The rival has to be kicked out of school for a year. God knows we cannot use our brains about this.

What a great way to get rid of someone competing for your girl/guy, or who might possibly edge you out of that starting position on a team -- or even as a way to dry-gulch your competitor for validictorian.

The odd thing about this case is the fact that the vehicle was a pick-up truck. All the kid had to say was that it was not his, he had never seen the knife before and point out that his truck bed was open and that anyone could have placed the knife in the bed of the truck, at any time during his class time.

Like most kids, he's honest.

What has happened to good old fashioned common sense?

It's out of style. PC and ignorance is the in thing now, I guess........
Hey, let's get Grampa's opinion!...........

I bet that school has an aids infested pervert posing as a teacher. Any sexual contact with that pervert is far more dangerous a bread knife in a pickup. Aids kills far more people each day/week/month/year than all the knives in America does.

It seems to me that the School Board has an easy out here if they want to use it.

This knife was not designed to "cut or stab someone by being thrown".

This is not a throwing knife. It was not designed as a throwing knife. Because of its balance, you probably couldn't throw it at all more than a few feet without it turning sideways.

See my reply re perverts with Aids posing as teachers for the real danger to young people high school as homosexual behavior is pushed as a normal thing.

Re the PCing and loss of common sense. It is prevalent out here to the max.

A few years ago, a young teenager we knew, a son of single Mom, really liked my mini Swiss Pocket knife. The one with the minature scissors, knife blade about 2 inches long and a nail file. It is a handy little tool and not much of a threat except maybe the user if he held the wrong way.

So I bought a new one and gave it to him. He proudly took it to school and was showing it to his peers. A rat teacher, sees it and takes it from him. I get the call from the principal's office since I gave the kid the knife, and they couldn't get hold of his mother who was out working as a saleslady.

I drove to the school and went to the office. After a short heated discussion with the prinicipal, the teacher and the off duty cop. They lightened up on the boy. I went from a dangerous knife provider to a conservative who promised to get them fired, tarred and feathered and then ran out of the community, if they made this a big deal. I told the cop to go out and bust up some of the Mexican Gangs on Campus if he wanted to do something to protect the kids. (We were having a real problem with Mexican Gangs shooting and killing each other, and he was acting upset about a minature Swiss Army knife!"). When I told him that his direct supervisor was a friend of over 20 years, he left the office.

The compromise was that he would miss 3 days of school and the knife would be seized. I said that if the knife was not given to me, they would be exposed to be even bigger fools. They gave me the knife, and I drove the young boy to his home.

I shudder to think what would have happened if his mother had gone down instead of me.

"At first, I thought [zero-tolerance] was great, because I support anything that will keep firearms and weapons out of the schools, but now I don't know," said Kimberley Moore.

If you smack me in the head with a two-by-four, you might spark my dormant brain cells into functioning for a brief flashing moment.

Now back to Oprah.

I am with you on Grandpa Dave's opinions. I am totally impressed with his opinions and wish we had a lot more like him in this Country. Wish someone would take PC and throw it out!!!!

Actually, if schrool administrators think that a bread knife is a weapon, then that is one more reason not to send kids to public school.

Bingo. Government schools lead to this kind of crap eventually.

This is just more evidence of the "Death of Common Sense". Not to mention the cowardice of the administrators and teachers involved in this case. I wouldn't give a nickle for someone who wouldn't stand up and say "enough is enough". This boy could suffer ramifications for the rest of his life for absolutely no fault at all on his part.

Anyone with balls would defend him and defy the law and see who shows up to defend this bullsh-t law. You are only afforded a few chances in life to do something which is truly meaningful and helpful to another human being, and you can't let them get away.

I long for the fifties type people who I grew up to respect as a child. They would never have allowed this to happen.