Armed & Famished

Campus Report ^ | February 15, 2008 | Deborah Lambert

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Armed & Famished

by: Deborah Lambert, February 15, 2008

“STUDENT ARRESTED FOR CUTTING FOOD WITH KNIFE” was the headline of a recent story on Orlando Florida’s News Channel 6.

It all started, police said, when school officials spotted a 10-year-old student at the Sunrise Elementary School, cutting her food with a knife during lunch.

After the suspect told sheriff’s deputies that this was not the only time she had brought the knife to school, she was charged with weapons possession, which is a felony. She was then arrested and taken ...

[FortWorthPatriot]

Are you freakin’ kidding me?

[Wagonboy]

This is completely absurd. This generation of kids growing up with safety knives and forks, helmets, pads and cushioned play grounds will face a world of hell that they’ll be completely ill equipped to handle. We’re literally sheltering them to death. -Wb

[Domandred]

Sunrise Elementary School Staff

http://www.esuweb.ocps.net/admin_info.html

Have fun.

[Proverbs 3-5]

I must be old. I remember I carried a pocket knife every day at school from grade school through college. No one ever got hurt, except my college room mate who borrowed then lost the Swiss Army knife that I had bought in Switzerland.

[JOAT]

Just get your kids out of government schools.

Do whatever it takes to afford sending them to a private school.

Live a cheaper simpler life.

Sell the car, live in a trailer whatever.

The government schools will not be reformed or fixed, and they are a danger to your children people.

[Domandred]

Just did some further research again and this is old news from Dec 2007, maybe even earlier.

[Puppage]

cutting her food with a knife

Define : knife

[stinkerpot65]

Government schools are evil.

[VA_Gentleman]

Well forks have 3 or four prongs at the end. I think we need to ban all forks as well.

[Disambiguator]

It all started, police said, when school officials spotted a 10-year-old student at the Sunrise Elementary School, cutting her food with a knife during lunch.

Summary execution is the only option, I'm afraid. We can't have kids using knives to cut their food.

/s

[PLMerite]

“I think we need to ban all forks as well.”

They’re working on that. They’re called “sporks.”

[larkster69]

So are the police. They are the ones that charged her with a felony.

[wolfpat]

Well forks have 3 or four prongs at the end. I think we need to ban all forks as well.

Like this?

[Redbob]

This is from Scrappleface, right?

[corlorde]

Now we have come full circle. Our PC country has gone completely insane. What’s that saying? headed for the drain and picking up speed? We are on our final approach.

This is just plain stupid.

[stinkerpot65]

The police had no choice. By law, once they are called, they have to make the arrest. The fault lay with the idiot teachers who made the call, and the politicians who made the law.

[Nakota]

Maybe it was an “assault knife”.

[Natural Law]

Wait, it gets better!

http://www.esuweb.ocps.net/bio_files/Dr_Inniss.html

[larkster69]

Not true. Police have a little thing called discretion. They do not make an arrest every time they are “called”. IF they thought this was crazy they would have declined to make an arrest. The police made the decision to charge this child with a felony. The school should not be able to make that determination and if they can that just bolsters my point that the police are evil.