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September 28, 2005
THIS is a Knife!
Omaha made CNN Headline News this morning. Apparently a boy was suspended under the Omaha Public Schools' zero tolerance policy when a butter knife fell out of his book bag.
The kid's parents swiftly issued a threat to sue the pants off of the school district, and OPS promptly recanted its threat to take action, saying that the incident will not go on the boy's permanent record.
Now, after reading this story, I would have said that the school district was over-reacting. Plus, zero tolerance policies don't always make much sense because they don't take other factors into account (such as the kind of knife and what the kid was doing with it). But this is the biggest butter knife I've ever seen!
The boy claims to have had no idea that a knife was in his bag. His mom says that she figures that his 4-year-old brother must have put it there. Likely story. That actually raises some larger concerns about what a 4-year-old is doing with a knife -- especially one that appears to have the capability of doubling as a machete.
Posted by Megan at September 28, 2005 08:25 PM