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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:14 PM Original message |
Fruitport schools fourth-grader expelled for having cake knife |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. a knife is a knife is a knife. It's dumb but we must live by their "zero tolerance" rules |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. uh huh. my daughter's high school had a "zero tolerance" bullshit policy too |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Zero-tolerance is a crock of shit. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 04:12 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I endorse this product and/or service (nt) |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 04:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. How about it needs to gain |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 04:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Why are school administrators paid so much |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 04:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. The guiding light of all large organizations: unreasoning terror of lawsuits (nt) |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. That's where maturity and fairness enter the picture. Be certain that |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 10:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Oh, I agree |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. Is the implication that |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I would use a pencil or pen |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Ot just a shiv |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. maybe it was simply a "home-ec" tool, likened to art supplies |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Kids get expelled for those plastic takeout-place butterknife things too |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 04:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. If he stabbed someone with it, it wasn't a cake knife. |
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JayMusgrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. I agree ANY knife is inapproprate on a school bus, but |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 04:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. It's just a zero-tolerance policy; most of those are intrinsically stupid |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. Did he have a cake? |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-03-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. No, I think he was hunting one :) (nt) |
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