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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

mernilio writes

"According to UPI: 'A Massachusetts school district superintendent said a memo banning sixth graders from carrying pencils was written without district approval. North Brookfield School District interim Superintendent Gordon Noseworthy said Wendy Scott, one of two sixth-grade teachers at North Brookfield Elementary School, did not get approval from administrators before sending the memo to all sixth-grade parents, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported Thursday. The memo said students would no longer be allowed to bring writing implements to school. It said pencils would be provided for students in class and any students caught with pencils or pens after Nov. 15 would face disciplinary action for having materials 'to build weapons.'"


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To: Clint Williams

I don’t get it...was it just a secretary checking to see if her boss actually reads the paperwork before he signs it?

When I was a kid the school district gave each kid one pencil a month. If you lost your pencil in the middle of the month, you were screwed.

I befriended a former schoolteacher later in life — she was telling me about a time that she gave a kid a pencil and was castigated by one of her colleagues. “How is the kid going to learn responsibility?” the colleague asked.

We discussed it among ourselves. There are many reasons other than lack of responsibility why a kid might not have a pencil. Maybe a bully swiped it from him. Also if a kid doesn’t have a pencil, how is he going to get one unless someone gives him one?


101 posted on 11/25/2010 3:16:05 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Clint Williams
"...any students caught with pencils or pens after Nov. 15 would face disciplinary action for having materials 'to build weapons.'"


102 posted on 11/25/2010 3:18:28 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Clint Williams
What's next? Checking and clipping kids too long fingernails before they enter the building?
103 posted on 11/25/2010 4:58:42 PM PST by proudofthesouth (Libs are pro-life only when it comes to animals. When it comes to humans they are pro-death.)
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To: BooBoo1000

“I still have the lead from a pencil that Ann Jenney stuck in my leg in 1935. She was always a problem.”

You should write her.


104 posted on 11/25/2010 6:29:37 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: GreyFriar

Might as well ban pencils if sixth-graders don’t know how to read or write.


105 posted on 11/25/2010 6:38:35 PM PST by zot
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To: Conservative Tsunami
NO pencils? In 6th grade? Are they %#@*! kidding?? Is the TSA running public schools now?

No but they are symptoms of the same disease. These are attempts to push Americans over the edge so the socialist gov't can declare a state of emergency and clamp down.

106 posted on 11/25/2010 7:35:21 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Wanna learn humility? Become a Pittsburgh Pirates fan!)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
These are attempts to push Americans over the edge so the socialist gov't can declare a state of emergency and clamp down.

You're pretty wise for just "some fat guy in L.A." ;-)

There are several ways they can accomplish what you suggest. Creating a hysteria over some "exotic" and "contagious" flu is always a Top 3 reason.

107 posted on 11/26/2010 7:40:49 AM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: 31R1O
Yeah, it is absurd, and they give First Class passengers steel knives and forks to use during dinner.
108 posted on 11/27/2010 7:07:48 AM PST by Hulka
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To: umgud

In Annapolis MD last year a male sixth grader drew a gun on a piece of paper, aimed it at another kid on the school bus and said “bang!” The kid was suspended. Bizarro world! Thank God he didn’t draw a mushroom cloud or a speck of anthrax.


109 posted on 11/27/2010 7:33:42 AM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Clint Williams

When I used to have to enter prisons for the job that I had several years back I was told that I could not bring in pencils. Pens were allowed but not pencils since they were too dangerous if a prisoner would get their hands on one. What amazes me is that as our schools continue to become more like our prisons that parents still will send their children into that environment.


110 posted on 11/28/2010 10:28:42 PM PST by WorldviewDad (following God instead of culture)
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