Boy suspended for buying knife at school

[awpitt]

A middle school boy has been suspended from school for 10 days and faces expulsion after buying a pocket knife from another student and taking it home to use in his fishing tackle box, according to the boy’s father.

Read the article, then decide.
SoMdNews.com: Boy suspended for 10 days for buying knife at school

[aps45819]

10 whacks with the "board of education" and a trip to the woodshed when he got home worked but it's more progressive to ruin the kid for life

[acommondisaster]

Stupid stupid school board. Instead of teaching him a lesson, they've probably changed his whole attitude towards school. Stupid. WTH are they teaching school administrators these days?

[vraiblonde]

That is the stupidest thing I've heard....well, all day anyway.

What exactly did this kid do that was wrong?

[NorthBeachPerso]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

That is the stupidest thing I've heard....well, all day anyway.

What exactly did this kid do that was wrong?

Violated MD State Education Law relating to the possession of a weapon on school grounds. He could have been expelled. As it is he's receiving the maximum punishment for which the teachers will be required to send makeup work home for him to do. They're excused absences.

[vraiblonde]

Well, it's still stupid.

[acommondisaster]

Originally Posted by NorthBeachPerso

Violated MD State Education Law relating to the possession of a weapon on school grounds. He could have been expelled.

So this article is old and a decision has been reached? The article stated he faces a board where he could be expelled at the end of the 10 day suspension.

[NorthBeachPerso]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Well, it's still stupid.

Then convince the Legislature to rein in the State Board of Ed (where these regs are developed) and then change the law.

This kid won't be expelled, the seller might be. As it is the suspension is shaky as he wasn't found to be in possession on school grounds.

As a note I've been in schools where one of my students was stabbed to death at school (that was in PA, a school in the middle of the middle of nowhere) and one here where the kid was shot in front of the Main office. Weapons in school, no matter how harmless the situation really is, are a problem.

[NorthBeachPerso]

Originally Posted by acommondisaster

So this article is old and a decision has been reached? The article stated he faces a board where he could be expelled at the end of the 10 day suspension.

I made the common mistake of responding to the headline without reading the article.

[MadDogMarine]

Originally Posted by NorthBeachPerso

Then convince the Legislature to rein in the State Board of Ed (where these regs are developed) and then change the law.

This kid won't be expelled, the seller might be. As it is the suspension is shaky as he wasn't found to be in possession on school grounds.

As a note I've been in schools where one of my students was stabbed to death at school (that was in PA, a school in the middle of the middle of nowhere) and one here where the kid was shot in front of the Main office. Weapons in school, no matter how harmless the situation really is, are a problem.

"Weapons in school, no matter how harmless the situation really is, are a problem"
That is not the case. Years ago 12yr old boys all brought their rifles to school during hunting season. They then went hunting when school was let out. The REAL problem is the moral decay of society promulgated by the public school system and morally corrupt churches. Teach children they all come form Monkeys, then why complain when they start acting like it.??
The public school system is corrupt beyond repair and can not be reformed. The only viable solution is to bring your children back home where it is safe and sound and they learn about how a moral foundation is necessary for a free society to thrive. Let the corrupt system collapse on itself which it is doing more and more every year.