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.
Sure it is after all a high capacity Army Assault knife, probably equiped with the evil corkscrew, scissors, toothpick and tweezers. Why you could hijack a plane with that thing.
You mean like the private school that expelled a student after someone saw that she expressed a fondness for Christian Rock music on her My Space blog?
Yeah, the school forbids the students from listening to anything but gopsel.
Thank God for private schools, right?
Amen, your preaching to the choir here...
If he had put a condom on it everything would have been ok!
Zero-tolerance leads to zero-brain activity.
Ugh...the weapon
Oh. I guess those tweezer could hold someone hostage...by a whisker.
Geez. When I was 7 in 1957, all boys carried pocket knives. We amused ourselves for hours playing Mumblety-Peg with them (with no adult supervision). In 2nd grade, my big thrill was to be able to wear my cub scout uniform, replete with jackknife dangling from my belt, to school on special days.
Public schools are just so much better and safer now with all these brainless "zero tolerance" policies in place, aren't they?
Now my daughter is a 1st grader in public school. The lesson I teach at every opportunity is that some of what they teach her there is always true, some of it is only true for now, and some of it is just flat out wrong. I teach her that part of her educational responsibility is to learn to tell which is which, and of course I am always there to help her with that.
I'm planning on buying her a jack knife and teaching her how to play Mumblety-Peg this summer.
ROFLMAO!!
You ask all the right questions. There may well be more to this story. I NEVER trust these things.
Interesting, going to do wome digging now.
Was the so-called weapon, in fact, a Swiss Army knife? If so, banning it is a stupid policy in the first place.
Yes you can...here is the info.
I am sending a message myself.
http://stonybrook.warren.k12.in.us/home/
What school are you talking about? When and where did it happen?
Same time a nail file became one.
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