I'm guessing that the 5th grader was a smart, intelligent kid, packed her own lunch, and used the common sense that God gave her to bring a steak knife to cut it. Only when she entered the loonie world of adults being too smart by half did it become a problem.
If not for hypersensitive and STUPID school faculty, she would have had her lunch, at most been told to cut her meat at home in the future, and that would have been that.
Zero tolerance = zero brains.
The faculty may indeed be idiots, but the real morons are the administrators and their lawyers.