Posted on 12/19/2007 3:02:26 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CHULA VISTA – A middle school student was arrested Tuesday after a teacher saw him fashioning a small knife out of wood during a shop class.
The boy, who is in eighth grade at Castle Park Middle School, was taken into custody about 11:15 a.m. and then released to his parents, said Chula Vista police spokesman Bernard Gonzalez.
The boy has been suspended for four days, said Sweetwater Union High School District spokeswoman Lillian Leopold. When he returns to school after the holiday break he will also undergo counseling, Leopold said.
District policy says that a student will be expelled if they are found in possession of a knife with a blade 3½ inches or longer, Leopold said.
The knife the boy made was 2 inches long, she said.
Thank goodness for California, making my local Florida officials idiocy for arresting the kid who brought a steak knife to school seem ALMOST sane.
You’ll poke your eye out, Kid.
Does this mean he failed in grade with his project?
Well, if nothing else he will get an A in life's learning.
I hope he goes on to to become a true conservative with a zest to fight this insane yet trivial infliction on society that the moonbat's have bestowed upon us.
For the sake of humanity, feed him saltines!!! LOL!
School 1957 vs. 2007
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team a arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2007 - Pedro’s cause is taken up by the state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2007 - BATF, Homeland Security and FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated. Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
I built a four stacker (gasp) gun rack and got an A without being expelled, arrested, and convicted for something...anything...
He'll learn from his mistakes and use his spare eye and become a fighter pilot someday.
If you showed someone that in 1957, or even in 1965, no one would have believed it.
Of course if he bought a real one with a steel blade at a sporting goods store, no one would mind. Idiots.
First of all, it wasn’t a knife. It was wood in the shape of a knife.
Next thing is to suspend anyone who carves wood or soap in the shape of a knife and accuse them of posessing a knife.
Only completely stupid idiots can’t tell the difference between a thing and a representation of the thing.
He'd be on the honor's roll if instead he carved a wooden condom, or made anything related to globull warming.
I still have my chisel! I also made an an ashtray that was cast out of aluminum, made a wooden pattern of a hollowed out star. Today a kid may get kicked out of school for possession of an ashtray.
Can’t we pass a zero tolerance law for STUPIDITY? These teachers need to be charged.
When I was in shop class (metal shop, not wood shop), we all made letter openers. Mine had a 7” blade, a blood groove and a leather bound handle. It looked alot like a KBar. After it was tempered, it could do a job on a letter.
Would you be saying the same thing, if he had then taken the 'knife' to Art class, and crafted a wax 'representation' of his math teacher, then killed him by sticking the 'knife' into the voodoo doll of the 'teacher'?
Schools must consider all scenarios, for every one's safety. It's for the children!
/sarc.
Up untill the early 80’s in Wis. maybe a bit later
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