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  • Cake Knife Gets Girls Banned From Baccalaureate [More zero-tolerance foolishness]

    05/18/2005 8:28:36 AM PDT · by Constitutionalist Conservative · 40 replies · 1,339+ views
    WSB TV, Atlanta ^ | May 14, 2005
    DEKALB COUNTY -- Two seniors at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. High School will miss their baccalaureate -- but make their graduation -- after a stink that started over a cake knife. Because of the school's zero tolerance policy on weapons, Ashley Pickens and Candace Grier, both honor students, were suspended from school for 10 days and told they would not be allowed to attend their baccalaureate ceremonies. The DeKalb school superintendent upheld that punishment but decided to allow the girls to walk with their classmates during graduation. The trouble started when the girls brought a cake to school and...