Posted on 04/03/2006 10:02:15 AM PDT by Abathar
INDIANAPOLIS -- A school principal in Indianapolis suspended an eighth-grader for 10 days and recommended he be expelled for carrying a pocket knife, even though the boy said he had forgotten the weapon was in his coat pocket and turned it over to school officials as soon as he entered the building.
An expulsion hearing has been scheduled for April 10.
Elliot Voge, 14, told Stoneybrook Middle School principal Jimmy Meadows he forgot that he had left the Swiss Army knife in his pocket after using it to whittle wood last month. The next day, just after he was dropped off at school by a classmate's mother, he said he discovered the knife in his coat and immediately went to the office.
Nevertheless, Meadows suspended him and recommended expulsion. The action stunned the boy's parents, who hired a lawyer to represent him at the hearing next week.
Sounds like he's being punished for having ever touched a knife in his life.
How pathetic.
Honesty isn't always the best policy.
Really encourages the next one to turn themselves in voluntarily, doesn't it?
Thank God for the Catholic school and private school systems.
",,,he boy said he had forgotten the weapon was in his coat pocket ..."
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THE WEAPON? A Swiss Army knife?
It goes from knife to weapon for no reason, anything is a weapon only if it is used as such!
(Blood boiling idiot reporters, turning face red here...)
The only one who should be expelled is the principal.
The WEAPON, a Swiss Army Knife - GMAFB!!!
This is precisely why my boy is in private school, that and they speak english.
Some questions I have at first glance--Is this story being reported from the boy and his family or the police or school? Is the paper reporting all the details or just the family's version? Is this the first time this student has brought in a knife? Does he have a history of violence and fights?
On the surface it does indeed look like an over-reaction from the school. If so, I hope the boy and his family get an apology and compenation for whatever damages have been caused.
Bet your Bippy he is. The suspension was probably required by the Zero Tolerance rules, but the expulsion was not.
The inmates are definitely in charge of that particular asylum.
2 ways of dealing with idiots like this.
Ass kicking
Hanging
Personally I prefer both. One right after the other.
That just shows how pathetic some educators are. It's definitely not the way to build character in our young people. You don't punish someone for being honest.
This reminds me of a funny, self-deprecating story told by my high-school principal. He said, "When I started in education as a teacher, I was given a bag of marbles. Everytime I made a mistake, they took one of them away. When I lost all my marbles, they made me principal!"
You have to manufacture "equal outcome" somehow.
Stupid... When did a Swiss Army knife suddenly become a "weapon"?
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