Help Zachary

[slayer202]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10...e.html?no_interstitial

http://www.helpzachary.com/


6 year old kid suspended for bring his fork/spoon/knife/can opener boy scout camping tool to school to use at lunch. school system is trying to make him go to a reform school. crock of shit

hope its not a repost, i semi-searched

edit: well theres a thread in P&N but it could be here too

 

[rivan]

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ATOT Sarcastic Response here:
He's obviously a terrorist with an anti-American agenda. Waterboard him for everything he knows.

Zero-tolerance FTW!

 

[MyThirdEye]

kid was right. :/

school systems are blowing up

 

[Perknose]

Help some bloodthirsty, power mad, spork wielding sociopath? Hell no!

This country won't be safe until there's a loyalty oath and a six month waiting period plus a national registry for spork owners. :|

 

[AstroManLuca]

Zero tolerance = zero intelligence

School board members who advocate for these policies need to DIAF.

 

[JS80]

did we crash the site?

 

[destrekor]

way to go ATOT - break the kid's site, now he'll never receive the proper attention.

 

[JS80]

The law was introduced after a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother had sent a birthday cake to school, along with a knife to cut it. The teacher called the principal ? but not before using the knife to cut and serve the cake.

lulz

 

[ViviTheMage]

The site crapped out, haha.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Perknose
Help some bloodthirsty, power mad, spork wielding sociopath? Hell no!

This country won't be safe until there's a loyalty oath and a six month waiting period plus a national registry for spork owners. :|

The article didn't specify - maybe it was an assault spork. I can't think of a reason why any law-abiding citizen would need an assault spork.

 

[StageLeft]

Starts with forks today and killing 6 million in a genocidal spree later on.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Starts with forks today and killing 6 million in a genocidal spree later on.

It's a slippery slope.

 

[Leros]

I took technical theater in high school. I was once in the halls carrying a circular saw and a leatherman tool. Principle saw me and got mad about the leatherman tool because it has a knife. Didn't have any issues with the saw though.

Its all absurd rules.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JS80
did we crash the site?

I put a copy of it on my non-commercial site that was transferred to me after the Georgia case.

Here is the link

Help Zachary

 

[Glitchny]

wow this is absurd... I can't even remember all the dangerous things I have brought into a school and never even got a warning...

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
The site crapped out, haha.

I did my part (to crash his site).

MotionMan

 

[TheVrolok]

Fucking 0 tolerance. :roll:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's a wonder we survived. When I was a kid, MOST boys carried a pocket knife and there were marksmanship/gun clubs held in the school. I was 30 before I'd even heard of a student using a gun on another student. Times change but, what irritates me most is school officials lying through their teeth talking about safety when it's totally about limiting liability. Screw lawyers reveling in lawsuits and to hell with judges who allow lawsuits that shouldn't exist in the first place.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
It's a wonder we survived. When I was a kid, MOST boys carried a pocket knife and there were marksmanship/gun clubs held in the school. I was 30 before I'd even heard of a student using a gun on another student. Times change but, what irritates me most is school officials lying through their teeth talking about safety when it's totally about limiting liability. Screw lawyers reveling in lawsuits and to hell with judges who allow lawsuits that shouldn't exist in the first place.

Yup... All anyone thinks about is covering their own asses anymore. I had to switch my daughter's school for that reason. They couldn't let her handle her diabetes herself, and they weren't equipped to perform 3rd grade math for her :^S The whole world's pretty much gone to hell. I'm hoping for a huge asteroid, and just starting over....

 

[BriGy86]

Exactly how much violence and abuse has zero tolerance thwarted? My guess is none.

 

[MotionMan]

http://www.thisistrue.com/zt.html

MotionMan

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: BriGy86
Exactly how much violence and abuse has zero tolerance thwarted? My guess is none.

I'm sure it's done some. However it's like wanting a liposuction and instead taking a hatchet and just carving out the fat. You'll mess yourself up and cut off stuff you didn't mean to cut off. Zero tolerance just has a huge error rate. It's like whatever you learned in statistics. Alpha error? Terrible alpha error.

 

[BoomerD]

I read this story this morning...IMO, it's stupid on the part of the school district and stupid on the part of the parents.

NO, I don't consider the knife/fork/spoon chingadera to be a weapon, but why the fuck would you let your child take something like that to school in the first place?

The school district IS being retarted in their response to this however. At MOST, a couple of days suspension would make the point, and really, just a parent conference SHOULD be sufficient if this was the first "offense" the kid was involved in.