[tpaine]

paulsen wrote:

(Meanwhile in a parallel universe ....)

Two weeks later, the kid brings that same pocket knife back to school, gets in a fight, and stabs another student in the eye, blinding him in that eye for life. The mother sues. The previous incident comes out in court testimony. The press goes crazy. The community is incredulous -- why didn't the principal do something before? Why wasn't this kid suspended? This could have been avoided!

Can't you just see the headlines?
So, the school gets sued for millions and the principal loses his cushy six-figure income because he gave the kid a break.

But it was all worth it because the principal exercised the "spirit of the law". Not in today's world, amigo. Those days are long gone.

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Parallel universe paulsen? BS.
-- This type of thing is happening in ~your~ world amigo, one that communitarian people like you have fashioned.

In rational days, back only 50 years ago or so, every kid that wanted to had a pocket knife, and because they did it was no big deal.
-- Sure, at times there were fights that involved knives, but the kids that used knives lost face and were ostracized as cheap hoods. -- Not to speak of ending up in reform school or jail.

But thats all changed now. -- The robertaulsen's of the world rule, prohibiting everything. Solving nothing.

[robertpaulsen]

"But thats all changed now."

Yes it has. Thank you for conceding my point. So why do you want the principal to ignore that and act as though it's 1950 and not report the kid. Are you crazy?

[SoftballMominVA]

Last year a sixth grade girl at my school brought a butcher knife to school with the intention of stabbing another girl who had stolen her boyfriend. The only reason it didn't happen was because another kid saw the handle and reported it to a teacher.

[SoftballMominVA]

Last year a sixth grade girl at my school brought a butcher knife to school with the intention of stabbing another girl who had stolen her boyfriend. The only reason it didn't happen was because another kid saw the handle and reported it to a teacher.