Da'Von Shaw is a black student.
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.
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Da'Von Shaw is a black student.
Some chile may have been very badly killed by that knife.
So were Trayvon and Michael and Jamal and Marquis and Darnell and Tyrone and...
The school authorities in this instance were stupid. Unfair. Irrational. But not, in this instance, racist.
I bought a switchblade in Mexico when I was twelve and carried that around for years.
But it would be difficult to slice and apple with them.
you could use it to strangle someone couldn’t you? For that matter, you could use your hands.
Good thing you never got caught.
Seriously, it never occurred to anyone that these tools would be used as weapons.
You have stupid principals who think anything sharp is a weapon.
I wonder if he has ever seen a kitchen knife.
“In high school we had shootguns in the trunks of our cars to go straight for a grain field for dove hunting.”
Half of the pickup trucks in my high school’s parking lot had shotguns displayed in the window racks. This was in Houston, 1970. It sure was a different world not so long ago.
Never did. I bought it because I didn’t want to break my nails trying to open a regular knife. Made the boys respect me too, LOL.
oops, shotgun
I keep a Leatherman tool in my car. Just a matter of time, I suppose before I am arrested for carrying THAT deadly weapon!
The purpose of zero-tolerance is to manufacture infractions against non-Eric Holder’s people. Period.
Ha! Love it.
No, I think there's plenty of just-plain-educratic taboo- response and stupidity involved.
This zero tolerance crap is stupid.
There was that kid in Texas that got suspended a few years ago because he had been helping his grandma move and a butter knife fell out of a box in the back of his truck. He didn’t even know it was there.
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Good thing we didn’t have that when I was in school. I carried all kinds of things in my purse that I could use as weapons, including pocket knives. Not to mention the bottles of Advil and Tylenol I carried. Hell I had my teachers bumming them from me all the time.
This was in the 90’s and they still allowed the kids to have their hunting rifles in their vehicles. And in 9th grade we had archery as part of PE.
I know from a few people that our Parole & Probation office allows felons to carry a Leatherman or related type “Tool”. Felons can own and use any single edged solid shank knife in their food preparation. The school was over the top on this and the teacher and all staff involved should be re-educated and reprimanded...a frontal lobotomy followed by waterboarding w/electrical shock to the genitals. Re-education complete.
But the purpose of zero-tolerance is STILL to address "disparate impact."
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