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Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School
Slashdot ^ | 11/24/10 | samzenpus

Posted on 11/25/2010 10:45:09 AM PST by Clint Williams

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To: Clint Williams

Liberals are getting ridiculous... now pencils are weapons? They’ll have to ban keys next - sharp, pointy objects that can blind and maim.


41 posted on 11/25/2010 11:14:52 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Clint Williams

Writing implements as weapons. I said this was coming, but considered it to be absurdly unlikely. Well, I was wrong. So what’s next? Nothing can be too absurd.

This is why I am single/no kids. Now the temptation would be too great to scream in the school administrator’s face “STUPID ****ING IDIOT”. It’s all namby pamby land.


42 posted on 11/25/2010 11:15:04 AM PST by Fred Hayek (FUBO! I salute you with the soles of my shoes.)
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To: Clint Williams

Oh great! Schools as penitentiaries..


43 posted on 11/25/2010 11:19:40 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: GeronL

All in-class homework or figuring will have to be done on
an Etch-a-Sketch.


44 posted on 11/25/2010 11:21:30 AM PST by supremedoctrine (Come closer. I want to get a better look at you.)
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To: Still Thinking
In other news, any teacher or administrator caught in possession of a working brain will be prosecuted for theft, since it obviously belongs to someone else.

To be fair, I believe most of these asinine "zero tolerance" policies have been enacted out of fear of lawsuits. You can bet the school would find themselves on the defensive should a kid get stabbed in the eye with a sharpened pencil.

Fear of litigation, job loss and budget-breaking settlements has taken the practice of "erring on the side of caution" to absurd levels.

45 posted on 11/25/2010 11:21:30 AM PST by Drew68
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To: MissyMack66; Clint Williams; The Comedian
I don't remember where I heard it, but this certainly fits:
"School is prison for those who have committed the crime of being born."
46 posted on 11/25/2010 11:21:33 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: umgud

Or even thinking the word “gun” would get the kid in trouble.

Some of this political correctness crap started showing up in schools and college campuses in the seventies. It created a stifling environment where I always felt that I was in a minefield, and some idjit would get offended at the slightest word. Even showing some measure of intelligence or initiative was extremely risky.


47 posted on 11/25/2010 11:22:57 AM PST by Fred Hayek (FUBO! I salute you with the soles of my shoes.)
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To: EGPWS

No. Helen Keller’s favorite color is: CORDUROY !


48 posted on 11/25/2010 11:26:44 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Clint Williams

The pen is mightier than the sword. Now pencils
are weapons. Next up...book bans. Bringing
material into class that doesn’t preach the
socialist agenda will be a crime.


49 posted on 11/25/2010 11:27:10 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: FlingWingFlyer
A revolution is brewing now and the foolish liberals will regret what they have done. (or are doing)
50 posted on 11/25/2010 11:28:46 AM PST by redshawk (Hey 0Dumbo, I'm scratching my nose too, and not with my index finger!)
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To: GeronL
No more pencils, no more books,
No more teacher's dirty looks.
Kick the table, kick the chairs
Kick the teacher down the stairs!


51 posted on 11/25/2010 11:30:04 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: GeronL

“Zero Tolerance” = NO BRAINS


52 posted on 11/25/2010 11:30:19 AM PST by BobNative
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To: Clint Williams

Another reason for the separation of school and state.


53 posted on 11/25/2010 11:31:31 AM PST by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: driftdiver; bamahead; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...
Another thing to thank God for today.

That we still have the freedom to homeschool.

Just when you think you've heard it all, the public schools give you.....

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54 posted on 11/25/2010 11:32:35 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Sherman Logan

That’s why you just stab them in the neck or under the chin, to incapacitate enough to give you the upper hand.


55 posted on 11/25/2010 11:33:59 AM PST by visualops (Proud Air Force Mom)
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To: Sherman Logan
Only challenge is that your subject is not likely to hold still while you get set up. :)

They don't have to be holding still if you can jab the point between their ribs and puncture a lung (or two). :=) While it may not kill them as quickly, it'll definitely take the fight out of them. (Just be sure to hold the pencil with the eraser in front of your pinky finger so that it doesn't slip through your fingers.)

56 posted on 11/25/2010 11:34:32 AM PST by Bob
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To: Future Snake Eater
But what about paper cuts?

Too right. And then there are the deadly projectile weapons known as "spitballs". Paper clips launched from a rubber band can be deadly as well. Ban them all.

57 posted on 11/25/2010 11:37:24 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Clint Williams

What a retarded person to do this.


58 posted on 11/25/2010 11:38:00 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Clint Williams

Just when I think I’ve heard it all.


59 posted on 11/25/2010 11:38:12 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: Clint Williams

Reminds me of Butthead bouncing a pencil off the desk and it landing in Beavis’s eye and saying,”Whoa,that was cool!”


60 posted on 11/25/2010 11:38:12 AM PST by Uncle Meat
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