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Student Suspended for Slicing Apple During Healthy Snacks Presentation
Reason ^ | November 3, 2014 | Lenore Skenazy

Posted on 11/06/2014 11:03:40 AM PST by grundle

Da'von Shaw, a Bedford, Ohio high school student, brought apples and craisins to school for a "healthy eating" presentation he was giving to his speech class. He took out a knife to slice an apple, and I'm sure you can all guess what happened next:

“When I took out the knife the teacher then told me that I couldn't use it, so I didn't hesitate I just gave it to her,” said Da'von.

He continued with his other classes, but late in the day was suspended for five days. The suspension letter charged him with having a weapon at school.

His mother Shakila Wilson is angry, saying, “I can take off my belt and use that as a weapon. Pens and pencils can be used as a weapon. You can't take a person with no intentions to harm and put them as a criminal because that's what you normally do.”

She feels the punishment is too much, didn't take the circumstances into account and worries about her son missing classes and assignments.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: zerotolerance
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1 posted on 11/06/2014 11:03:40 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

In my HS speech class, I demonstrated loading a cap and ball revolver.


2 posted on 11/06/2014 11:04:58 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: grundle

Idiocy. Hopefully the Republicans will put an end to this nonsense in the public schools.


3 posted on 11/06/2014 11:05:25 AM PST by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: grundle

Black students are truly violent, which isn’t fair,so we have to even it out by trumping things up on white students and pretending they are just as violent as black students.


4 posted on 11/06/2014 11:05:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: grundle

Sue the bastards. That will get their attention.


5 posted on 11/06/2014 11:06:39 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Enjoy Barack Obama's Legacy America (EBOLA))
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To: grundle

What’s his Dad think?

What does Mother Michele think?

Healthy eating demo is part of the Great Mother’s program.


6 posted on 11/06/2014 11:06:47 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: grundle

OMG! A knife!

Practically every kid in my school had a trusty Barlow or Boy Scout Knife. It’s a wonder I lived through it!


7 posted on 11/06/2014 11:07:24 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: grundle
So, does that mean schools with culinary classes can't use knives? I think I saw that trick on Cutthroat Kitchen. It wasn't pretty.

The idiocy of the zero tolerance crowd is astounding.

8 posted on 11/06/2014 11:07:38 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: grundle

I’ll say it again - you’ll never meet people more bureaucratic, narrow-minded and reactionary than “academics.”


9 posted on 11/06/2014 11:07:47 AM PST by PGR88
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To: grundle

We should not allow morons to educate our children.


10 posted on 11/06/2014 11:08:36 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: grundle
Pens and pencils can be used as a weapon.

She's right. A freshly sharpened [high quality] wooden pencil makes an outstanding and highly lethal weapon.

11 posted on 11/06/2014 11:09:57 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: grundle

Zero tolerance is about taking away decision making and eliminating common sense and getting teachers used to deferring to a central authority.


12 posted on 11/06/2014 11:10:38 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

His name is Da’von and his mother’s name is Shakila.

The odds of him being white are quite low.


13 posted on 11/06/2014 11:11:07 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: MeganC

not likely


14 posted on 11/06/2014 11:11:10 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SampleMan

OMG, TERRORIST! :)


15 posted on 11/06/2014 11:12:56 AM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Black students are truly violent, which isn’t fair,so we have to even it out by trumping things up on white students and pretending they are just as violent as black students.

Actually, D'avon Shaw IS black. I guess the message is that you can ONLY bring weapons to class is you plan to be violent with them.
16 posted on 11/06/2014 11:13:05 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: grundle
I know a friend whose honor roll student daughter was suspended from school for bringing a cake her mother baked to school to share with her teacher and classmates. Bringing the cake had previously been approved by the teacher for an end of the year party in the class.

Along with the cake she brought paper plates, plastic forks and a KNIFE to cut the cake.

She was immediately suspended by the principal and missed important class time during the week before her final exams.

Parents complained. No explanation, no common sense just another failure of our public schools.

17 posted on 11/06/2014 11:14:23 AM PST by detective
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To: grundle

Maybe he should have uncoiled a couple feet of dental floss or small gauge wire and used that to slice the apple. Obviously those things couldn’t be used as a weapon /s


18 posted on 11/06/2014 11:14:26 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: smokingfrog

Every kid I knew in school had a pocket knife. In high school we had shootguns in the trunks of our cars to go straight for a grain field for dove hunting. We even had a school rifle club. And nobody got hurt, nobody pulled weapons on anybody. When are these stupid rules going to stop. Good kids getting caught up in these stupid rules!


19 posted on 11/06/2014 11:14:59 AM PST by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

” Sue the bastards. That will get their attention.”

Take their money, they will listen.


20 posted on 11/06/2014 11:15:47 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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