I eat lunch at my daughters school occasionally. They only have metal spoons.
I wonder if the school has any knives in the cafeteria??? Did anyone also notice that further into the story, they once again pull the race card. Getting tired of that too!
He had one of these:
I hear too many stories like this...
We tell our Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts to never take any of their items (knives, utensils, firestarters, etc.) to school or school activities, to be sure to check their jacket pockets that they've worn to meetings and activities to be sure they haven't inadvertenly left any of these items in them before wearing them to school, etc.
This is just crazy; Scouts are generally more responsible with pocket knives than most adults. And this wasn't even a pocket knife...it's an eating utensil. Better outlaw those sharp pencils, they might be used as a weapon, ya know!
Ban all Sharpen Pencils? How about Rubber Bands too? Boots?
Remember the old joke: What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? Ans: A good start.
Or, Do you know the difference between an Attorney and a Lawyer? Ans: Their Fees.
Let's see eating utensils . . . . oh yeah, that sounds dangerous. Oh, and no cloth napkins either, those can be used as garrotes you know. Paper napkins only.
So, enlighten me, do school cafeterias no longer have silverware? If not, I'm really out of it (proudly, btw).
I went to a small town highschool of about 850 students.We had club day once a month. We had an archery club and a trap/skeet club . So once a month our SCHOOL was full of compound bows and 12 gauge shotguns.Everyone carried a lockback on their belt everyday, everywhere. Most males and some females had full gunracks in the back window of their trucks and they were loaded . The normal fights and arguments happened then as they do now . Here is the kicker I am 95% certain that , with all those loaded guns and sharpened knives very close at hand not one of them was used in a violent manner toward another person.
So what I want to know is how did we get from that type school environment in the late 80's to an environment that would suspend a child for an eating utinsel, that he was proud of and wanted to have with him, falling out of his pocket.
He did nothing except have small pockets.
I just don't get this mentality of zero tolerance from the same people that are preaching tolerance on everything else
He had one of these: