6 year old kid gets suspended.

[Bare Foot Kid]

It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a ... Weapon?

Zachary’s offense? Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently joining the Cub Scouts that he wanted to use it at lunch.

School officials concluded that he had violated their zero-tolerance policy on weapons, and Zachary was suspended and now faces 45 days in the district’s reform school.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/education/12discipline.html?_r=1

 

[dannyp32]

wow poor kid

 

[AlexT2889]

Yea, he's from Newark Delaware and goes to the school district I went to for 8 years. The ****tiest school district EVER! (Christina School District) the most corrupt, mismanaged people work there. So I'm not surprised they're making a big freaking deal out of this, he's 6 years old!

Dont make me tell you how many times I've been suspended for inane garbage compared to this kid here.

Christina School District should be federally investigated and dismantled and merged into a better district in northern Delaware. They aren't even receiving federal funds because they violated many rules during the Clinton Administration and and the former District Administrator almost ran the District bankrupt the took off with millions of dollars with several other top people to Jacksonville Florida, he has since taken post there and ran THAT DISTRICT nearly broke!

The only reason MY school stayed afloat in that corrupt place is because it's a state-owned Deaf/Hard of Hearing institute and we get money directly from state of Delaware instead of the District itself but rely on the ground rules and requirements of District. They have even used tax money to build several schools without any votes or letting local residents know of what's going on, so basically (I think) the new completed schools are still sitting empty.

 

[Lunarpancake]

weird....second time in 2 weeks ive heard of or spoken to someone that lives in Newark De. Never heard of the place before.



But back to the story....I was once stabbed by a Fork, Knife, and Spoon in quick succession and let me tell you THEY ARE WEAPONS!

 

[Antman]

weird....I was once stabbed by a Fork, Knife, and Spoon in quick succession and let me tell you THEY ARE WEAPONS!

Fortune cookie say: Wise man never crack on Chinese waiter.

 

[Lee]

Hear this on the early morning news, then read about it from a news RSS. This is what you call stupid. By the time the news media gets through with this school district Watergate will be nothing more than a picnic.

Is there such a thing as common sense in a situation like this, or did it get put out with the garbage.

 

[holo88]

Is there such a thing as common sense in a situation like this, or did it get put out with the garbage.

theres a reason i dont watch the news. they over-bloat, and exaggerate everything in time and space, in order to get a story. my personal opinion is that if nothing truly important happens on a given day, news casters should go fishing. so to awnser your question, NO, there is no sense commonly found in the media. it died out long ago.

-edit-
or do you mean, about the school crucifying a small child for an honest mistake? in that case, still, the answer is NO. sad isn't it?

 

[smarteyeball]

Is there such a thing as common sense

Common sense was phased out and replaced with Political Correctness.

Sense is not so common any more.

 

[AlexT2889]

I just hope Christina School District implodes on itself since this has been getting worldwide attention.

 

[ahriman]

And another one: This time they got an eagle scout.

 

[Antman]

Perhaps, if we had summary executions for perpetrators of violent crimes, we could forego imposing ridiculous standards on the general populace.

I propose that we reward a minimum of $50,000 to anyone who summarily executes any criminal for the commission or contemplation any crime.

I would surely rest easier knowing how much safer we would all be.

 

[Lee]

. . .can only say that I am glad my school days are far behind me, and that my two sons are grown men whose children have only one more year left in school.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

And another one: This time they got an eagle scout.

This is even more ridicules than the first article, the "2 inch" knife was in a survival kit locked in his car.

 

[strollin]

I would have been suspended as well, I was an Eagle Scout in HS who always carried a knife. It was never a problem, it was a tool not a weapon. Of course that was almost 40 years ago. As Bob Dylan said, "The times they are a-changin'."

 

[swarfega]

It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a ... Weapon?

Zachary’s offense? Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently joining the Cub Scouts that he wanted to use it at lunch.

School officials concluded that he had violated their zero-tolerance policy on weapons, and Zachary was suspended and now faces 45 days in the district’s reform school.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/education/12discipline.html?_r=1

I remember taking one of those to a cub camping event. We didnt worry about health and safety back then.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

It's all the FPSers teaching the kids how to kill.




















*did I just let the genie loose*

 

[zrtom]

There's some funny people out there.
I remember going to a Chiropractor a few years ago. When he had me lie down on the table he spotted my ever-present, custom-made 2" pocket knife clipped inside my jeans. Grabbing for it to remove it without asking he said, "Well, we don't need any weapons in here now, do we?"
If I wasn't in dire need of immediate chiropractic services I would have told him to, er, um, well, you can figger out what I might have told him....
Tom

 

[Scotteq]

There's some funny people out there.
I remember going to a Chiropractor a few years ago. When he had me lie down on the table he spotted my ever-present, custom-made 2" pocket knife clipped inside my jeans. Grabbing for it to remove it without asking he said, "Well, we don't need any weapons in here now, do we?"

...perhaps he used to be a Proctologist and someone retaliated after a particularly eager PSA test? :shock:

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

There's some funny people out there.
I remember going to a Chiropractor a few years ago. When he had me lie down on the table he spotted my ever-present, custom-made 2" pocket knife clipped inside my jeans. Grabbing for it to remove it without asking he said, "Well, we don't need any weapons in here now, do we?"

...perhaps he used to be a Proctologist and someone retaliated after a particularly eager PSA test? :shock: