Posted on 11/06/2014 11:03:40 AM PST by grundle
Da'von Shaw, a Bedford, Ohio high school student, brought apples and craisins to school for a "healthy eating" presentation he was giving to his speech class. He took out a knife to slice an apple, and I'm sure you can all guess what happened next:
“When I took out the knife the teacher then told me that I couldn't use it, so I didn't hesitate I just gave it to her,” said Da'von.
He continued with his other classes, but late in the day was suspended for five days. The suspension letter charged him with having a weapon at school.
His mother Shakila Wilson is angry, saying, “I can take off my belt and use that as a weapon. Pens and pencils can be used as a weapon. You can't take a person with no intentions to harm and put them as a criminal because that's what you normally do.”
She feels the punishment is too much, didn't take the circumstances into account and worries about her son missing classes and assignments.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
A pocket knife is a tool.
Every boy 8 years and older should carry one.
I use my folding pocket knife several times each day, cutting fruit, opening boxes, cutting string, opening a blister pack, opening medicine bottles. I honestly don’t know how someone can survive without a pocket knife.
I took a Type 56 Chinese carbine to my 8th grade `show and tell’. My Dad picked it up on one of his Indochina vacations.
“In my HS speech class, I demonstrated loading a cap and ball revolver.”
Yep, for me it was a calcium carbide cannon.
Times have changed.
I also remember the annual sportsman’s show at my local high school and bows and shotguns left in cars to hunt with after school.
Except if you win a suit, it won't be their money you're taking.
It would be yours.
Business as usual.
Schools are run by radical leftists who are in reality authoritarian fascists who would willingly put people in jail for having the “wrong” thoughts.
My school did. As long as they stayed in the kitchen or culinary classroom/ dining room no one cared. They were nEver locked, just left in the knife rack. Not sure if it has chanced since I graduated though.
Sherman Micsak, Superintendent
I sent him a “nice” note letting him know what a STUPID move that was.
Overgeneralize much?
Every boy 8 years and older should carry one.
Girls too
Was is a scary “assault knife” with a black handle?
I went through high school with a throwing knife in each boot and large folding knife in my pocket, never had a single problem.............from the teachers.
My daughter and I created a small functioning cannon for show and tell.
And to train children to accept that "proper authority" is capricious, stupid, cruel, merciless, and vindictive. "Proper authority"... an all-powerful, never-to-be-challenged predatory beast.
Beast.edu, spawn of beast.gov.
Catholic high school, circa 1972.
Classmate ‘threatens’ to shoot me; I say, ‘Yeah, right.’
He asks if I don’t believe he has a gun.
I reply (knowing that he hung with a rough crowd), responded that I believed that he probably did have one - so he reached into his arm sling (he was recovering from a car accident, brawl or other mayhem) and pulled out a little derringer.
I looked over and told him, ‘Just put that away and quit being stupid.’
I wasn’t scared for a single second - nor should the school have been with the kid with the fruit knife.
This kind of crap has been going on for DECADES now and
decent people have done basically NOTHING about it. The policies are not fixed, the culpable administrators and teachers still have their jobs and decent people still send their kids there.
What gauge was your shootgun?
The teacher certainly had a lobotomy as a graduation present from college.
My 5th grade teacher made “history” movies using the class as actors every year. Our class did “The Gettysburg Address” and for the opening scene of the movie, all four 5th grade classes at Fall Creek Elementary dressed in blue and gray to perform a “reenactment” of the Battle of Gettysburg. And we all brought our BB guns from home to play our parts. That was 1970.
I don’t think they’d let Mr. Raymond do that today.
The vegans and the EPA will not stand for this!
“Cue the tree-weeper!”
when I went to school there was an indoor rifle range and it was a varsity sport, don’t remember any school shootings of people
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