Attorney: School's overreaction to pocket knife may destroy teen's future (global warming, how much)

[Hyperthetic]

Originally Posted by DauntlessDan

"In his car" even, not on his person. Zero tolerance = zero common sense.

You have more tolerance in a prison system, because there, you can bribe the guards.

[whogo]

Originally Posted by Katiana

It's not just the knife! The school did not jail the kid!

I agree about the EMTs. In the story about the suicide, it seems to me if a resident were called in to a hanging, it would have behooved him/her to bring along a knife or some other cutting implement.

The kid stated the knife's primary purpose was to cut seatbelts. A perfectly logical reason an EMT should have one.

[Huckleberry3911948]

People think border crossing paper requirements , red lights and speeding limits are all suggestions not laws
we have lost our respect for law and with it our future

[nybbler]

I can just see the recruiter hearing about this henious crime and asking "Kid, are you MORAL enough to join the U.S. Army?"

[whogo]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

People think border crossing paper requirements , red lights and speeding limits are all suggestions not laws
we have lost our respect for law and with it our future

“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.” Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by jimkyler

Airsoft guns and stun guns aren't lethal. Throwing a heavy stapler at someone would be more lethal than those two. Maybe you aren't aware airsoft guns don't fire bullets, they fire plastic BBs propelled by a spring. People shoot each other with them for fun all the time, and nobody dies because they don't even puncture the skin.

So its only a weapon if it can kill you ????

[whogo]

You can kill someone by shoving a plastic straw up their nose.

I've only had to do it once.

[suzy_q2010]

Originally Posted by Katiana

It's not just the knife! The school did not jail the kid!

I agree about the EMTs. In the story about the suicide, it seems to me if a resident were called in to a hanging, it would have behooved him/her to bring along a knife or some other cutting implement.

No sharp instruments are allowed on the unit. He was already there when the patient was discovered. He was not "called in."

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by whogo

The kid stated the knife's primary purpose was to cut seatbelts. A perfectly logical reason an EMT should have one.

Is the kid currently an EMT? Are EMTs required to carry their own knives? Pocket knives?

[North Beach Person]

Zero weapons tolerance laws have been on the books for at least 20 years. The Crime Control Act of 1990 started them off. That is a federal law.

Here's Ohio's:
Lawriter - ORC - 3313.66 Suspension, expulsion or permanent exclusion - removal from curricular or extracurricular activities.

Where y'all been since then. This has been happening for years.