Girl, 10, Arrested for Using Knife to Cut Food at School

[waggy]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I don't feel sorry for her at all. Is she retarded? What would make her think that bringing any knife at all to school would be appropriate?

Um. I bring a knife to school every day. Of course, I've only actually used it a couple times at school, but this is ridiculous. I mean, in this case they should arrest her if she brings a decent pair of scissors to school. Just as dangerous.

i would say a good pair of scissors are far more dangerous. when i see someone walking with pair of scissors i don't worry about them. but if i see someone walking with a knife i tend to keep an eye on them.

 

[Xavier434]

They should have just taken the knife away, sent her home, and issue a suspension. I see no reason to take this matter any further unless this wasn't the first time it happened. Even then, I see no reason to try and issue a felony for cutting up some steak. People need to realize that there is a massive difference between what "could" happen and what "did" happen. If she was truly a criminal and wanted to hurt someone, then she could stab some poor bastard in the neck with a #2 pencil or how about using a pair of scissors? I realize there are rules which should be followed and I respect enforcing those rules but there is simply no benefit to warranting this severe of a punishment.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I don't feel sorry for her at all. Is she retarded? What would make her think that bringing any knife at all to school would be appropriate?

:laugh: wait - please tell me you're joking...

No, I am not. It's a steak knife. It has no purpose in a school. I am sure someone at the school could have provided her with utensils if she needed, under supervision. Or she should have cut the steak at home first.

There is NO reason a child should be carrying a knife, especially in school.

YOU are part of the problem.

I don't get it. Did any of you look at the video of the knife? Something liek that does NOT belong in a school.

I went to school in the Bronx, NYC. I would be horrified if I knew a kid in my class had a knife like that, regardless of intent.

Some things just don't belong in a school. C'mon...those of you with kids, do you really think that it is appropriate that your kids classmates have something like that in their lunchbox?

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: Glitchny

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I don't feel sorry for her at all. Is she retarded? What would make her think that bringing any knife at all to school would be appropriate?

:laugh: wait - please tell me you're joking...

No, I am not. It's a steak knife. It has no purpose in a school. I am sure someone at the school could have provided her with utensils if she needed, under supervision. Or she should have cut the steak at home first.

There is NO reason a child should be carrying a knife, especially in school.

YOU are part of the problem.

I concur, hell she is 10. apparently amdhunter was perfect at age 10

No, I have never been perfect...but I have enough sense to not take a knife with me to school.

 

[Throckmorton]

Yet those same stupid teachers complain about being underpaid.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I don't feel sorry for her at all. Is she retarded? What would make her think that bringing any knife at all to school would be appropriate?

:laugh: wait - please tell me you're joking...

No, I am not. It's a steak knife. It has no purpose in a school. I am sure someone at the school could have provided her with utensils if she needed, under supervision. Or she should have cut the steak at home first.

There is NO reason a child should be carrying a knife, especially in school.

YOU are part of the problem.

I don't get it. Did any of you look at the video of the knife? Something liek that does NOT belong in a school.

I went to school in the Bronx, NYC. I would be horrified if I knew a kid in my class had a knife like that, regardless of intent.

Some things just don't belong in a school. C'mon...those of you with kids, do you really think that it is appropriate that your kids classmates have something like that in their lunchbox?

Wow, you just don't get it.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I don't feel sorry for her at all. Is she retarded? What would make her think that bringing any knife at all to school would be appropriate?

:laugh: wait - please tell me you're joking...

No, I am not. It's a steak knife. It has no purpose in a school. I am sure someone at the school could have provided her with utensils if she needed, under supervision. Or she should have cut the steak at home first.

There is NO reason a child should be carrying a knife, especially in school.

you know, elementary school age kids are ignorant to the world today. she saw no harm in bringing a everyday item from home to school. she wasn't there to kill anybody with it she brought it to cut her food with and saw no reason not to. it was a steak knife and was used to cut steak NOT A WEAPON. my pencil is a pencil when i write with it, but becomes a weapon when i go over to the other cube next to me and stab the UNIX guy in the eye with it.


to charge a 10 year old kid for is criminal in its self period. If i lived there my ass would be on the phone to DA's office pitching a bitch over wasted resources and scaring a kid for life.

what do you propose? we strip search our kids every morning and search their coats and backpacks before they leave the house for school?

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
How f*cking stupid. Anything can become a weapon if you want it to be.

The parents should take a sharpened pencil to the principal's throat.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I used to carry a bag of sharp lead pointed sticks with me everywhere in school, plus a ball and chain like device (rope with a bag full of books), a double bladed device (sissors), and in my later years a large metal self propelled object that could be used to run down students.

Wow, I'm lucky I never got caught.

It's a fucking knife, which easily could have been used by someone to cause harm to another person. I think the girls a f-cking idiot and she deserves what she gets.

I could see it now. Every kid in school now has an excuse to bring a weapon to school. "I had this knife to cut my lunch pizza."

dude calm the fuck down, its just as easy to fing kill someone with a pencil or a math book as it is a steak knife, the school over reacted, the officials need to be kicked in the nuts and you need to take your prozac

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Anubis
the officials need to be kicked in the nuts and you need to take your prozac

LOL - amen

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Anubis
the officials need to be kicked in the nuts and you need to take your prozac

LOL - amen

:laugh:

 

[meltdown75]

"Daddy, is it ok if Mommy makes my lunch from now on? 🙁 "

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I used to carry a bag of sharp lead pointed sticks with me everywhere in school, plus a ball and chain like device (rope with a bag full of books), a double bladed device (sissors), and in my later years a large metal self propelled object that could be used to run down students.

Wow, I'm lucky I never got caught.

It's a fucking knife, which easily could have been used by someone to cause harm to another person. I think the girls a f-cking idiot and she deserves what she gets.

I could see it now. Every kid in school now has an excuse to bring a weapon to school. "I had this knife to cut my lunch pizza."

dude calm the fuck down, its just as easy to fing kill someone with a pencil or a math book as it is a steak knife, the school over reacted, the officials need to be kicked in the nuts and you need to take your prozac

I actually agree with amdhunter on this one (and I'm sure most people with kids would too). The difference with the items that you mentioned is that a pencil and a book belong in school. A knife does not. I know that she was intending to put the knife to good use, but what if it was someone else?

I don't think that the girl should be charged as badly as she is though.

And yes, I grew up in NYC also so I had friends who carried much worse than a knife in school.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Ahhh government school zero-thinking policies.

Prime example of why my wife and I are sending our kids to private school.

Because you're afraid of black people or because you want your kid to not function socially in the real world?

 

[purbeast0]

i wonder if kids now a days have ever used a protractor or compass. i mean you could slice someones neck with the edge of a protractor or stab someone with a compass.

this is ridiculous.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2

Originally posted by: Queasy
Ahhh government school zero-thinking policies.

Prime example of why my wife and I are sending our kids to private school.

Because you're afraid of black people or because you want your kid to not function socially in the real world?

😕

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2

Originally posted by: Queasy
Ahhh government school zero-thinking policies.

Prime example of why my wife and I are sending our kids to private school.

Because you're afraid of black people or because you want your kid to not function socially in the real world?

So you're saying black people don't attend private schools? And last I knew kids at private schools aren't socially inept.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Well, bringing metal knife IS ridiculous, girl/parents are retarded.

That's what they have plastic knives for!!!

OR cut up your damn lunch at home!

That said, felony charges may be overkill, but I'd give a few days of in-school suspension.

I don't care why, NO knives in school PERIOD.

edit: while it is reasonably easy to kill someone with math book or pencil, knife is portrayed as a weapon. How many people would think to use a book to kill?

 

[UNCjigga]

This just in: public schools around the nation are banning hardcover books because they may be used as blunt weapons. New curriculum guidelines call for softcover books of "200 pages or less".

 

[Linflas]

The most ridiculous thing is that until people became afraid of their own shadows standard cutlery in a school cafeteria included a friggin butter knife. I work in a school and I can't begin to tell you how frustrating it is that there are no butter knives, plastic or metal, to be had. No wonder kids live down to our much lowered expectations.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
This just in: public schools around the nation are banning hardcover books because they may be used as blunt weapons. New curriculum guidelines call for softcover books of "200 pages or less".

Duct tape 3 books together with metal plates on both sides of resulting "package"....WIN?

 

[RaistlinZ]

Originally posted by: invidia
If it was a plastic butter knife, I would be shocked, but a fu*king steak knife? The one with serrated edges and sharpen tip? Now that's a goddamn murder weapon.

Something like this: Steak Knife

Tase her.


Something like this: Plastic Knife

Way to over-react.

Well, she was eating steak. You'd expect her to cut her steak with a plastic knife? 'Aint going to happen. I agree they should have confiscated it, but 10 days suspension and felony charges? Come on.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I used to carry a bag of sharp lead pointed sticks with me everywhere in school, plus a ball and chain like device (rope with a bag full of books), a double bladed device (sissors), and in my later years a large metal self propelled object that could be used to run down students.

Wow, I'm lucky I never got caught.

It's a fucking knife, which easily could have been used by someone to cause harm to another person. I think the girls a f-cking idiot and she deserves what she gets.

I could see it now. Every kid in school now has an excuse to bring a weapon to school. "I had this knife to cut my lunch pizza."

ok ok.. jokes on us. you've carried the spiel on long enough.. haha, reality check..

Earth paging amdhunter.. Earth paging amdhunter. Please come back down.

 

[brunell8]

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I used to carry a bag of sharp lead pointed sticks with me everywhere in school, plus a ball and chain like device (rope with a bag full of books), a double bladed device (sissors), and in my later years a large metal self propelled object that could be used to run down students.

Wow, I'm lucky I never got caught.

It's a fucking knife, which easily could have been used by someone to cause harm to another person. I think the girls a f-cking idiot and she deserves what she gets.

I could see it now. Every kid in school now has an excuse to bring a weapon to school. "I had this knife to cut my lunch pizza."

dude calm the fuck down, its just as easy to fing kill someone with a pencil or a math book as it is a steak knife, the school over reacted, the officials need to be kicked in the nuts and you need to take your prozac

I actually agree with amdhunter on this one (and I'm sure most people with kids would too). The difference with the items that you mentioned is that a pencil and a book belong in school. A knife does not. I know that she was intending to put the knife to good use, but what if it was someone else?

I don't think that the girl should be charged as badly as she is though.

And yes, I grew up in NYC also so I had friends who carried much worse than a knife in school.

I have kids (all girls) and if I want to send my kid to school with a HOME UTENSIL to cut her lunch, that's my prerogative. The school should know the kids, and by that I mean knowing if a particular child is a threat or not. If this happened to my kid, I would have everyone from the principal on down, including the police that took her away to juvi because they couldn't get hold of her parents, fired faster than it took them to take down a 10 YEAR OLD GIRL trying to eat her food. That being said, the lunch monitor could have simply cut the food up for her, confiscated the knife since it was an issue, and been done with the whole stupid ass scenario.

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I used to carry a bag of sharp lead pointed sticks with me everywhere in school, plus a ball and chain like device (rope with a bag full of books), a double bladed device (sissors), and in my later years a large metal self propelled object that could be used to run down students.

Wow, I'm lucky I never got caught.

It's a fucking knife, which easily could have been used by someone to cause harm to another person. I think the girls a f-cking idiot and she deserves what she gets.

I could see it now. Every kid in school now has an excuse to bring a weapon to school. "I had this knife to cut my lunch pizza."

It is a tool, it's primary design is NOT a weapon. A weapon is a weapon by intent alone. A knife is no more dangerous than a fork. Seriously.