jimpeel
Well-Known Member
What a bunch of brainless jerks we have running the school system. They think that what they did was "reasonable" even in the face of their own admission that he had no criminal intent.
No wonder so many parents are pulling their kids out of public schools and schooling them at home.
The blade from a pencil sharpener is about 1" long. What a mighty sword that this child could have weilded against his classmates, slashing and thrusting his way through the screaming hordes trying to flee his viscious attack! Oh, the humanity!
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/607283.html
No wonder so many parents are pulling their kids out of public schools and schooling them at home.
The blade from a pencil sharpener is about 1" long. What a mighty sword that this child could have weilded against his classmates, slashing and thrusting his way through the screaming hordes trying to flee his viscious attack! Oh, the humanity!
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/607283.html
Island fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener
By DANIEL BROWNSTEIN
[email protected]
843-706-8125
Published Thursday, September 11, 2008
A 10-year-old Hilton Head Island boy has been suspended from school for having something most students carry in their supply boxes: a pencil sharpener.
The problem was his sharpener had broken, but he decided to use it anyway.
A teacher at Hilton Head Island International Baccalaureate Elementary School noticed the boy had what appeared to be a small razor blade during class on Tuesday, according to a Beaufort County sheriff's report.
It was obvious that the blade was the metal insert commonly found in a child's small, plastic pencil sharpener, the deputy noted.
The boy -- a fourth-grader described as a well-behaved and good student -- cried during the meeting with his mom, the deputy and the school's assistant principal.
He had no criminal intent in having the blade at school, the sheriff's report stated, but was suspended for at least two days and could face further disciplinary action.
District spokesman Randy Wall said school administrators are stuck in the precarious position between the district's zero tolerance policy against having weapons at school and common sense.
"We're always going to do something to make sure the child understands the seriousness of having something that could potentially harm another student, but we're going to be reasonable," he said.