Another stupid school district...

[Fat Tone]

Anyone else want to reboot and reinstall?

[VJ]

good thing he did not get nailed for having a sharp pencil too

Hehe... There is some recursive joke in there somewhere...

Nobody has used a compass at an American school for quite some time, sadly.

Cool, I didn't know that device was called a compass (in Dutch it's a "passer").


But things are really getting out of hand...
Stupid...

Jörg

[Evildead666]

Thats completely mental.

They have to redefine what they perceive as a weapon in my opinion...

[Fat Tone]

[Gurm]

So do they do math without circles too?

Nobody has used a compass at an American school for quite some time, sadly.

[Fat Tone]

So do they do math without circles too?

[Dr Mordrid]

Far different from when I was a kid - I got my first pocket knife at age 5 and carried it to school until graduation for pencil sharpening, paper & string cutting etc. Virtually all my buddies the same. Hell, even the girls carried some kind of cutting implement.

[Tjalfe]

good thing he did not get nailed for having a sharp pencil too

[Dr Mordrid]

...caught between a 'zero tolerance' policy and common sense

IMO time to review the policy.

Link....

Island fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener

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.

"Reasonable" would be to craft the policy so as to allow some of that common sense they seem to be avoiding.