Reamond
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posted on March 10, 2004 10:56:22 AM new
Pupil expelled for having scissors in sewing class
An American pupil has been expelled from school for taking scissors to a sewing class.
Jacob Finklea, 12, had taken them to his school in Indiana to make a set of pillows, but was booted out under his school's zero tolerance policy.
According to Skynews,Jacob said the teacher had told the pupils to put all their supplies on the table.
He said: "I put the scissors on the desk and she just freaked out."
Jacob's mother, Chrystal, said her son had hurt his hands while using a school set of scissors so she gave him a pair from home.
School chiefs across America have operated a zero tolerance policy since the 1999 Columbine High School killings.
A spokesman for Jacob's school in Pike Township said it "vigorously defended" the procedure.
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Helenjw
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posted on March 10, 2004 11:27:17 AM new
A little common sense would be in order in this situation. Couldn't the teacher just remove the scissors and explain that sharp scissors cannot be used in the classroom or brought into the school building.
Whoever is in charge of delivering the zero tolerance message should reconsider how they deliver the message to the parents and students. Somehow the parent and the child failed to understand that scissors were considered a zero tolerance item. It could be a language problem.
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Fenix03
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posted on March 10, 2004 11:34:25 AM new
Has anyone actually heard of a Columbine style attack by a band of roaming home ec students brandishing their illegally aquired left handed Fiscar Sicissors? We had two incidences here in San Diego a couple years ago and neither of the two involved carried scissors even as back up weapons.
I think that schools need to start working on a little common sense. When scissors and nail files are considered weapons and asprin is considered a drug there is a problem.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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bunnicula
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posted on March 10, 2004 12:07:33 PM new
Totally asinine!!
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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Linda_K
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posted on March 10, 2004 12:19:30 PM new
The WSJ online runs these type of stories all the time. This student expelled for this or that...all having to do with teachers/principles not having any common sense.
The one I saw not to long ago was a child who had brought his action figure to class to share. That action figure had a 1" [that's right - one inch] plastic gun. He was suspended because the school said they enforced the zero tolerance law.
IDIOTS are running these schools. Adults making decisions like this?
Re-elect President Bush!!
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profe51
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posted on March 10, 2004 12:28:00 PM new
Oh how we love to point our fingers and sneer the schools. American schools are damned if they do and damned if they don't on this one. Let a kid get assaulted with a pair of scissors at a school with no clear cut rules about weapons, and you'll hear everybody screaming bloody murder..."how could these adminstrators let this happen?? Oh woe, oh woe"...ad nauseum...What doesn't make the news, sadly, are the thousands of schools who have and are enforcing reasonable weapon-drug-tobacco rules. They're not interesting. They don't fit the model of incompetence...
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bunnicula
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posted on March 10, 2004 12:32:46 PM new
Someone could get stabbed with the school-provided scissors. Orkilled by a pencil or pen wielded as a weapon. Or by a chair picked up & slammed over their head. Or...
The possibilities are endless. Schools do have to exercise common sense.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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Fenix03
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posted on March 10, 2004 12:41:05 PM new
Prof - I did't even blame the schools when the idiots brought guns. The guns were supplied by the idiots, not the schools. The parents enabled the possession of the guns, not the parents. In the Columbine case, the police ignored warnings about the kids with the guns, not the school. I blame schools for overreaction and a lack of common sense but I have never blamed them for phsychotic gun wielding teens with no oversight from home or law enforcment.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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gravid
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posted on March 10, 2004 12:42:37 PM new
I wonder how it is possible to have shop class anymore?
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logansdad
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posted on March 10, 2004 01:23:44 PM new
My question: Why was jacob taking a sewing class?
Marriage is a Human Right not a Heterosexual Privledge.
Bigotry and hate will not be tolerated.
Impeach Bush
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bunnicula
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posted on March 10, 2004 05:05:30 PM new
Why not?!? Gee--they even let girls into Auto shop these days, logansdad...
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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Helenjw
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posted on March 10, 2004 05:12:43 PM new
LOL!
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dadofstickboy
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posted on March 10, 2004 06:01:11 PM new
Girls in Auto Class!
Gee!!
When I was in auto class I would have loved seeing a girl in a mini skirt with pink panties riding a Geepers Creeper!
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stonecold613
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posted on March 11, 2004 07:48:15 AM new
That is what happens when you allow Democrats to continue to state the sky is falling. You must allow use to imprison you for completely stupid and unjust reasons.
They create panic where there should be none.
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