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- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -19/+596At least they didn't tase her.
- aguitarhero, on 12/15/2007, -8/+404Could someone tell me why America has this fascination with "zero tolerance policies"?
Surely it would be better to look at each case, and judge accordingly, then to just arrest people because they happen to just fit in to the parameters of such a policy. - inactive, on 12/15/2007, -23/+325At least they didn't:
1. Tase her
2. Rape her
3. Lock her in a shipping container
4. Feed her to Dick Cheney - Error601, on 12/15/2007, -27/+322There's nothing wrong with the rule but arrested is dumb. Just call up the parents and say don't send sharp knives. The kid probably grabbed it anyway and they didn't know. I sure don't let young kids handle the steak knives on their own.
- homerpa, on 12/15/2007, -14/+303dumb ***** rules
- cosmiq, on 12/15/2007, -8/+291OH MY GOD. we had knives GIVEN to us, in every cafeteria in public school, through all my years from the 60's thru the 70's in Oregon & Washington. Now they put you in jail for cutting your food? they better just drop every charge, that is all! so i guess, if they had provided a way to cut food, she would not have felt the need to bring her own cutting implement. goddam jerks. Lord jesus help us all now. But i sure do thank the media for reporting this, and spreading it all over.
- JessieBeachBum, on 12/15/2007, -41/+259Wow! I have a 10-year-old daughter and cannot imagine something like this happening to her!!! One of several thousand reasons my children will never set foot in government schools.
- vortex22222, on 12/15/2007, -1/+171Think what would have happened had she been singing "Welcome to the Jungle" at the same time....
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 12/15/2007, -1/+162I can't believe not a single adult during this was like, "wtf, she's a child and was cutting her food at lunch... what the ***** is wrong with the rest of you.." somewhere along the way of bringing her to the juvenile center
- icefairy17, on 12/15/2007, -1/+124What really pisses me off about this story... is the school officials had the nerve to call the police. Just take the knife away and call her parents if you're that worried about it. Geez, what is this world coming to?
- Grambo, on 12/15/2007, -8/+131Can we just, for once, not make things between liberals and conservatives. Please?
- Chirp08, on 12/15/2007, -2/+112when we say "food" do we mean "people", cause that would make sense..
- edilclyde, on 12/15/2007, -1/+101i can't believe this. did someone in school just said " WHAT THE *****? THAT KID IS CUTTING HER FOOD! WITH A ***** KNIFE! CALL SWAT! "
sick. the girl will be traumatized for life. - AlanLivingston, on 12/15/2007, -23/+122You don't let your 10-year0old kids handle a steak knife? Hell, my four year old already practices cutting his own food. When we have meat, he tries to use a steak knife. He gets help, if he needs it.
I guess you're prepping your kids for one of those prestigious burger-flipping jobs. Oh wait, the fryer might be too dangerous for them. How about school lunchroom steak-knife lookout?
Seriously, if a child is smart enough to realize the utensils they provide her aren't good enough to allow her to eat and she plans ahead and brings a steak knife from home, obviously, she's mature enough to use a steak knife. Zero-Tolerance gone wild, in my opinion. - molecool, on 12/15/2007, -3/+89Jeeez, man - what's with this country...
- mikezerobot, on 12/15/2007, -1/+835. ...profit?
- mpn401, on 12/15/2007, -3/+80And people wonder why kids are rebellious.
- Hiltonizer, on 12/15/2007, -17/+89i hope she was black, that'd make this OK.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -2/+66or maybe they could have talked to her and explained why it is wrong to bring knives to school instead of arresting and sending her to 'juvenile assessment center'.
If she did it again, then more serious approach could be taken. - inactive, on 12/15/2007, -7/+70knife should have been confiscated and the childs parents called. Either the whole story isnt here, or this particular school is ruled by morons. next.
- PorcupineTree, on 12/16/2007, -0/+63Times I've been stabbed with a pencil: 1
Times I've been stabbed with a knife: 0
Guess I don't have to do my homework now, do I? A pencil may not be as sharp as a knife but it can still ***** you up pretty badly, even kill you. - sjl127, on 12/15/2007, -2/+64police with no common sense. scary, isn't it?
- amawg9, on 12/15/2007, -1/+61This reads like an Onion article.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -5/+65Geez! We live in a ***** up world guys...
- Super6, on 12/15/2007, -2/+62Welcome to my city. We have one of the worst school systems that promotes anyone with a master's degree into an administrator's role, regardless of proficiency or even what the degree is in.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+56It's about:
- a litigation-happy public and stupid parents
- idiots in charge of schools
- gangs in (some) schools
- control over the population, getting the sheep used to accepting endless and increasingly restrictive rules
- the death of common sense
- knee-jerk reactions by those in authority
And more...
But hey, this is the beginning of the fall of Rome anyway. - ratpH1nk, on 12/15/2007, -1/+57Is that supposed to make me feel better or worse? gldfshnpcklejar's comment still hold up, why was there police involved? Whatever happened to take the knife away and say. "you can't have this here, tell your mom/dad to pick it up after school"...No need to f**king arrest the kid.
- romistrub, on 12/15/2007, -5/+60I can't believe people like you exist...Does everybody become a douchebag when they can't be held accountable for the stupid ***** they say?
- barius, on 12/16/2007, -9/+58(1) WTF was she doing bringing a steak knife to school at all? If I had done that when I was in high school I'd be in serious trouble to.
(2) Waaaay overreaction by the school. Take the knife away and bring the parents around for a talk, sure, but calling in the police and accusing her of a federal crime WTF?? - Daedalos, on 12/15/2007, -10/+58BING! Great point. Now imagine what Government health care would be like...
"10 Year Old Arrested For Refusing To Take Pills, Which Is A Felony" - LordBalderdash, on 12/15/2007, -6/+54would she still have been arrested if it was a fork?
- BigW, on 12/15/2007, -0/+47I would like to propose a "zero-tolerance policy" for administrators that fail to use common sense when judging school policy violations and send 10 year olds of to juvenile detention.
- KaJuN4, on 12/15/2007, -2/+46Tasers are only used on people who annoy the officer while doing something trivial. This girl had a deadly weapon!
- bigd063, on 12/15/2007, -1/+45Chances are she can read and write much better than you can.
- Raerth, on 12/15/2007, -1/+45watch out, too many people have no sense of sarcasm
- ussoldier, on 12/15/2007, -15/+58You people voted this ZERO TOLERANCE crap into law, now you live with the dumb *****. We screamed bloody murder about it,but no.... all you super psycho parents and your super overprotection. Now live with having your kids have the holy ***** terrorized out of them and being tramatized and scarred for life. Maybe a seed will be planted in them to hate the system and authority so much they grow up to be anarchists like the rest of us. We cut our steak with knives, thank you very much, and don't go putting each other on trial and locking each other up in boxes for it. Beats having to chew your food for hours or tear it off the bone with your bare teeth like Republican barbarians.
- jmpeagle, on 12/16/2007, -4/+47a gun is a tool. You can use it to get basketballs down from roofs, change the TV station, or even open a can of beer.
- linagee, on 12/16/2007, -2/+44They should have tazed her, THEN called her parents!
- mciampa1214, on 12/15/2007, -1/+43or attends private schools... nice try though
- TheSabre, on 12/15/2007, -0/+39Hell yea. You can still stab someone to ***** with a pen. I'm surprised schools didn't start mandating crayons or finger paints for writing.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+38Are you OK with them bringing pencils to school? Sharpen that sucker and it'll stab someone right in the eye.
Pencils are for writing. Steak knives are for cutting food. So yeah, I'm OK with it. - bloodjunkiee, on 12/15/2007, -2/+40Dugg for society's new level of low
- bbardlbradd, on 12/15/2007, -1/+38Not to mention the school faculty. They could have just taken it away and called her parents...
- edilclyde, on 12/15/2007, -0/+37"The girl was arrested and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center."
was she running around with the knife and trying to stab anyone? shes a ***** kid. arresting her is just a too much - InsaneOni, on 12/16/2007, -0/+37Yep, they gave us knives @ my elementary school in the 90's too. Heck, I carried a pocket knife with me most of the time in elementary, middle, and high school. Guess they're a little more paranoid now since it must be so hard to overpower a 10yr old w/ a knife.
- andregriffin, on 12/15/2007, -3/+39Hence you're a ***** dumbass.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -3/+39Firefighter arrested for putting fire out with water!
- cyranthus, on 12/15/2007, -0/+35i can just picture the police seeing it and running over from a distance... "NOOOO!!!! Shes a got a steak knife! Everybody down to the floor!"
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