Boy suspended for using broken pencil sharpener

[RamboLiberal]

Source: South Carolina's The State.com

HILTON HEAD ISLAND -- A 10-year-old boy here 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.



Read more: http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/521009.html

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Zero Tolerance Idiots!

[GodlessBiker]

1. They should ban pencils to avoid these kinds of problems.

[progressoid]

20. And pens!

You can kill with a pen!

(see john Cusack in Gross Pointe Blank)

[jeff30997]

21. Or Joe Pesci in Casino. n/t

[Muttocracy]

2. I suppose he should go on the Terror Watch list with that kid

who was at the hearing about it (video posting on DU yesterday)

[Bob Dobbs]

3. Lesson learned.

Ve vill destroy you vit out reason.

Submit or die.

[HereSince1628]

4. He should'a known...we live insensitive times. n/t

[struggle4progress]

39. I'm sure the kid learned something from the experience: "big folk are mean and stupid," perhaps?

[Xipe Totec]

5. By those standards, my socks are lethal biological weapons n/t

[BlueJazz]

32. Yep...I suspect they'll come for my Dog any day now...He's been known...

...to "Cut some big ones"... :)

[awoke_in_2003]

35. Blaming it on the dog

may work with the wife, but I ain't buying it :)

[BlueJazz]

37. Busted !!!

:rofl:

[lakercub]

6. And what will this kid think about school now?

And what lesson do you think he learned? Way to traumatize a kid who did nothing wrong...fools. Zero tolerance rules are designed so administrators don't need to spend time thinking.

[LynzM]

15. Yup, exactly.

I loathe public schools, sometimes... Gah.

[UpInArms]

7. omg - living in poverty - most likely and cannot afford

more new cheap Chinese crap that will break with the first usage.

:grr:

[TwilightGardener]

8. Uh...not in Hilton Head.

[kurth_]

9. Hilton Head Island median income is $62,900, median property value $366,900

Estimated median household income in 2005:
Hilton Head Island $62,900
South Carolina: $39,316

Estimated median house/condo value in 2005:
Hilton Head Island $366,900
South Carolina: $113,100

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. That teacher need to be slapped.

Sorry, but sometimes the obvious needs to be said. The sharpener could have simply been confiscated and nothing more needed to be done.

[tularetom]

11. Hilton Head Island International Baccalaureate Elementary School?

WTF happened to PS 24?

[kurth_]

19. Yep, it's HHIIBES

[BadgerKid]

12. Good job -- we'll dumb down students even more!

Kill their ingenuity for seeking out necessary tools.
Reward cynicism.
Show the students "you're in charge" because you can.

And we wonder why we're behind the world.

They can shove their suspension.

[Eric J in MN]

13. The teacher could have traded another pencil sharpener...

..for the one the boy was using, instead of calling the sheriff.

[galileoreloaded]

14. And we wonder why people homeschool. n/t

[shraby]

16. Whatever happened to those old crank

pencil sharpeners that were fastened down with screws on the window sill, the wall or the teacher's desk. That's what we used to sharpen our pencils with.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. He should have been commended for a creative solution to his problem.

Instead...

Jeez - when I was in 4th grade I used the small blade on my cub scout knife to sharpen my pencils. In class. I remember a kid was stabbed in my class - either 3rd or 4th grade. With a sharp PENCIL.

[mainegreen]

18. I'd sue them into small piles of smoking rubble just to spite them.

I'd raise holy hell. I'd put giant billboards up, and coat the town in fliers that clearly illustrated the stupidity of this until the offending party was either fired or put on leave and a public apology has been received.

Ignorant bureaucrats need a good beat down now and again to illustrate to them the errors of their ways.

[Raster]

22. He'll never be able to fly again! Boxcutters, pencil sharpeners... it's all the same!

Why does he hate America?:sarcasm:

[rubberducky]

23. How sick is this? I went through this kind of stuff when my son was a teen-ager.

If "they" get your kids name, "they" will hound you until you sell your home(at a loss) and move. I didn`t have the money for a good lawyer.The "good" lawyer that I contacted told me he could get every charge wiped away, no problem, exept I could not afford his price. Believe me "they" can destroy your child`s life with allegations. I have been there, I have lived through it, and my child has managed to get past all of the bogus allegations. If you cannot afford an expensive lawyer, you ,and your child are screwed. My son will accept his degree in electical engineering from a southern state university in May. He faught every inch of the way. He is my heart, my love and my hero. He has never missed the dean`s list. His fight has been real. He had to leave our state. Still seems so sad to me that had I had the money to fight the bastards he wouldn`t have to have leave this state.

[mikelgb]

24. FUCKING IDIOTS

I got detention for not sitting properly once

[4lbs]

25. I haven't been in a public school for several decades...

having graduated high school a little more than 20 years ago.

Have things really changed THAT MUCH ?!?!? :o

[izquierdista]

26. You left out the best part

The last sentence of the article, where the spokesman for the school says "we're going to be reasonable". :rofl: :rofl:

I'd say they passed reasonable when they went past throwing the broken sharpener in the trash. Now they are in let-me-slam-your-face-into-the-wall-until-you-come-to-your-senses territory.

[grace0418]

31. Yeah, they can't even see "reasonable" in the rear view mirror.

What idiots. I'd laugh if it didn't involve traumatizing a child.

[Javaman]

27. So here is a kid that decided to use his brain and figure out a way to still use the sharpener..

and he's is punished for it.

great message, great lesson, great example.

nazi prick teacher.

:banghead:

[4lbs]

30. How true.

He found a way to make it still work, without complaining, and this is the "reward" he gets.

Good going "educators". :sarcasm:

[hedgehog]

28. I want to know if the child involved is Afican-American.

Because African American males are so dangerous, you know!

:sarcasm:

[BRLIB]

29. Keep them at the Crayon level, like the Repukes, McSame

and McPain. The words they could spell take only a few letters anyways.......

[madrchsod]

33. "we can`t make a common sense decision so.....

we`ll call the cops"...an all to typical reaction by so called adults that are supposed to teach our children.

the kids here can not wear hoodies,can`t wear pull overs with kangaroo pockets,and flip flops...it`s going to be fall and they can`t wear hoodies....

[madmax]

34. Can we say

JERKOFFS!!!!!!!!!

They should be ashamed.

"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."

[yellowcanine]

36. Stop coddling the little snot nosed terrorist. You know he broke it on purpose and planned to use

it on all his classmates and teachers. :sarcasm:

Jeez! Has all common sense been lost?

[ColoradoMagician]

38. Poor kid

How could he not be traumatized? He is being suspended and is facing 'further disipline". This is not zero tolerance, it is child abuse.

[OneBlueSky]

40. some grownups are REALLY dumb . . . n/t

.

[XanaDUer]

41. Another sign that amerikkka has become totally batshit crazy.

totally.