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6-year-old is suspended for 45 days

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TheQuailman
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/education/12discipline.html?no_interstitial

This just shows how bumb our school system is in America.  A 6 year old brings in a fork/knife/spoon to show his friends and is suspended for 45 days.

And heres another little anecdote from the article that is even more ridiculous:

"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."

Oct 12 2009 5:14PM
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Ben.
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i still take naps
Oct 13 2009 12:33AM
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Pee_and_Ski
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i had one og thouse multi-utensils, they were wicked cool, im not sure if it could hurt somone but they are still wicked cool,

all i can say to the story is "only in America"

Oct 13 2009 12:33AM
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Mr.Panda
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Naps are the fucking shit.
Oct 13 2009 12:36AM
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snwbrdmilf
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Haha, you know what I mean!
Oct 13 2009 12:48AM
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Ben.
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:)
Oct 13 2009 1:20AM
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Malcolm
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my brother got in shit once for bringing a knife to elementary school cuase he had to spread some mustard or something stupid like that
Oct 13 2009 1:26AM
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caucasian_chad
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I'm thinking that the kid might not have said anything to his mom, because he obviously didn't think it would be a big deal. Zero-tolerance knife rules are just stupid. At my school, if they can see a knife IN YOUR CAR and its in the student lot you can get suspended. Come on, everyone has a pocket knife in their car. One of my friends got suspended for two weeks for having one in his backpack and he even had a legitimate reason. He goes straight from school to working at the ski hill and he needed it to cut ropes at work. Maybe he shouldn't have had a knife in his backpack but its not like he was showing it to everyone. They searched his locker because dogs hit on it, and even thought there were no drugs in there, they could still suspend him for the knife.
Oct 13 2009 1:52AM
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Ben.
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hes six. theres no possible way that his mother doesnt pack his backpack for him, and make his lunch for him. again, im not trying to excuse the absurdity of the situation. just kinda wondering where his mother was.
Oct 13 2009 2:05AM
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HenniferLopez
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YES! +k for the laugh.
Oct 13 2009 2:26AM
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sick-as-aids
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wtf has america come to more like.. i cant imagine this happening in any other countries
Oct 13 2009 5:42AM
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J.D.
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Hilariously, I was a bit of a troublemaker when I was 6, I got in a lot of fights with the older kids, and one time I actually brought a case full of darts to school and ran around at lunch break hucking them at them. How else was I supposed to win, they were bigger than me. I didn't get suspended though.
Oct 13 2009 5:46AM
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2_fadez
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its mostly a bunch of overprotective liberal moms doing the compaining nowadays about these sorts of situations. they think little six year old timmy is going to try and stab their own child. a lot of parents today are too paranoid because of the media saying kids are fucked, so they fight against it by banning swiss army forks. i can't wait till our generation becomes parents, then those kids will have no leinancy at all.
Oct 13 2009 8:18AM
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GORlLLA
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Wtf what has our contry come to
Oct 13 2009 9:47AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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You can easily kill someone with a sharp pencil if you stab the right part of the neck.
Oct 13 2009 10:22AM
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thenakedcellist
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thats actually insane, cheers America.
Oct 13 2009 10:29AM
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Steezius_Maximus
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god bless america
Oct 13 2009 12:36PM
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willyg0808
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yes, there was just a commircial for this on our local news station
Oct 13 2009 12:39PM
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remove
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Same kind of thing happen to my friend last year. He had a broken paintball gun with no CO2 or paintballs in his car and got suspended for the rest of the year. So basically his junior year was a wash. When did this country become a bunch of dumbasses? theres a difference between being fair and equal and just becuase its under theyre "disicipline matrix" and fits 1 of 4 catagories doesnt mean that a huge suspension is nessecary. We all have to deal with retards but sometimes when they gain control its rididcuolus the things they come up with
Oct 13 2009 12:45PM
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Z_rob
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thats fucked up

and he has the same name as me!
Oct 13 2009 2:29PM
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caucasian_chad
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My mom didn't pack my backpack in elementary school.
Oct 13 2009 3:09PM
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Delphi
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that would be the dumbest thing you could possibly do, but go ahead.
Oct 13 2009 3:17PM
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soulskier
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i think i was 12 when i brought in a loaded clip during deer season and i was asked to lock it in my locker until the end of class....why am i here again?
Oct 14 2011 12:11AM
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skithesprings
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I'm sorry, but if you ever stop taking naps you need to seriously re-evaluate your life.

and da fuck is an abc?

just kidding on the second part, but naps are the shit.
Oct 14 2011 12:26AM
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TOAST.
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My mom mom works at my school and the one day she had to drive my brothers car which had 3 paintball guns, a shit ton of paintballs and some CO2. Nothing happened, thinking back on it I guess it could have been bad.

Why the fuck was this bumped
Oct 14 2011 12:39AM
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wasatch_rat
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this whole "anything that can be used as a weapon is a weapon" zero tolerance policy in schools is such bullshit. before you know it some kid is gonna get stabbed with a pen, then they'll all be using felt tip markers on essays.
Oct 14 2011 12:42AM
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Toasty.
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I got suspended for 2 days for wearing my "Grenade Thumb print Sweatshirt"

they said it was associated with gang violence. Fuck ya seattle

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Oct 14 2011 12:51AM
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MFM
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people are way too serious these days, this kid i knew brought a homemade bomb to school in grade 6 made out of crushed up fireworks in a tube and blew open a door and we just got yelled at by a teacher, and my friend brought an airsoft gun to school everyday in grade nine and we'd snipe out dumb bitches through the locker hinge. I think it's okay to bring weapons to school as long as you're responsible.
Oct 14 2011 12:52AM
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SlimDunkin.
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I was threatened community service and a suspension for 5 days because I was flicking a quarter up and down and I flicked it a little too high and it hit a teacher in the head, she freaked out and called the police, my dad who was on the school board and actually in Vegas with the super intendent at the time of the incident, long story short teacher had to write me a letter of apology and was close to losing her job. Oh ya I was 10.
Oct 14 2011 1:00AM
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Skibumsmith
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god dammit i hate stupid people. i had to quit reading the article cause I was just getting pissed off.
Oct 14 2011 1:06AM
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tripnip
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i'm pretty sure I watched a fight.today where one jugg was stabbed. but fuck.this I don't get this what do ever this is worse then the time when I had a laser pointer on my back pack zipper in 2nd grade. what happens? I get suspended for 2 Weeks and threatened with expulsion..
Oct 14 2011 1:10AM
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-Mugatu
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A kid in 4th grade when I was in 6th grade in ( I SHOULD be in 3rd year uni now) brought an ancient like letter opener thingy in for show in tell and got suspended for a bunch of days
Oct 14 2011 1:10AM
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steezeknees
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What if that kids master plan was to actually fucking kill other kids? I think that shit would be crazy
Oct 14 2011 1:18AM
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remove
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it's a little different for faculty I'm sure
Oct 14 2011 1:20AM
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binyinninja
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I don't think you would fit into that responsible bracket. sniping dumb bitches through a locker hinge? While it sounds like a lot of fun, I doubt anyone other than a 12 year old will find this responsible.
Oct 14 2011 1:32AM
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scientist
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I got expelled from highschool for exchanging notes with this kid under ninja alter-egos. He was ninja gordon, I was ninja o'shanwnessy. They were depicting an epic battle along the lines of like "the dust will settle around your defeated body as i whip my numchucks back into thier shealth. they have pierced enough souls today."

and he would write back much the same kinda bullshit. "my ninja stars sent through time resurrect justice in our orient land, arching in perfect form, diving into your cranium and splitting your body in two perfect pieces with the precision of oragami. a white crane feasts on your remains as i am embraced by my dojo."

Seriously shit that far fetched, clearly joking around. After class I tossed the notes he wrote to me in the trash. Few days later, i get called into the principals office, police officers are waiting there. He shows me a photocopy of the notes, "you recognize these yadadada." becasue i couldnt prove he was writing them back i got taken away in handcuffs and expelled from highschool.
Oct 14 2011 5:33AM
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las.
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i have never been so glad not to be an american.
Oct 14 2011 6:04AM
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ORDEAL
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oh shit, good catch by the school


he could have thrown that shit at someone
Oct 14 2011 7:02AM
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skifoo
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this is so bullshit. one kid from our school brought fireworks. Teacher saw them took him into principals office. he only had to call his mother and say that he had fireworks. nothing else.

It could've been categoried as illegal explosive hold.
and this kid gets suspended becos she brought dining equipment. Raurg, with what do you eat in america? You so should eat bare hands. you could kill eachother!!!!!!
Oct 14 2011 7:10AM
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shibby
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Fuck off retard. Unlike you I've been through second grade and have lived in Canada. You're completely talking out of your bunghole.
Oct 14 2011 7:36AM
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Orrin
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Oct 14 2011 7:47AM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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that's pretty gay (o'shanwnessy?) but it sucks you got expelled
Oct 14 2011 8:07AM
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pink_squid
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“There is no parent who wants to get a phone call where they hear that their child no longer has two good seeing eyes because there was a scuffle and someone pulled out a knife,” said George Evans, the president of the Christina district’s school board.

FUCK you dude this is straight up retarded

Oct 14 2011 11:22AM
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steezeknees
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These little 6 year olds are some hard mother fuckers did you know that it is a fucking fact that a six year old with a knife is the one that kill tupac?
Oct 14 2011 11:23AM
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pink_squid
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u 12?

Oct 14 2011 11:30AM
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Sheets-mmm
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i mean i was a lot older than 6 before my parents let me play with a pocket knife, but i mean he was eating lunch with it/look how happy and cute he is...so rediculous
Oct 14 2011 11:35AM
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.Hugo.
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I know its college and not elementary school but my school lets us brings our shotguns/rifles/bows on campus. They even have a locker room for them and a game cleaning room.
Oct 14 2011 11:39AM
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jibnut
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Um. YUP.

 I live in Snohomish, so the school district. I know plenty of people who got suspended for the DUMBEST stuff ever.
 At our school, it used to be a jail, so these kids went and explored it in the evening. They got it all on tape, they got "arrested" and then really suspended from school for like a week because of it. Everyone was like "Um, what are they trying to hide?"

 I almost got suspended for parking my car and sitting in it at a nearby school district (even though we were out of school, they weren't). They brought me into the office and made a big deal about it....I went to school the next week and nothing ever happened.

Also, once this girl in PE (7th grade) had the same shoes as me and someone stole her shoes, so she thought it was me. So I got in trouble, and I was in the office and I called my mom and my mom was like "OH MY GOSH THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING EVER, LOOK AT THE TONGUE OF THOSE SHOES!", simple enough, my mom had wrote my name on the shoes. So I was like F YEAH. And I got my shoes back. And got un-suspended.

 And then a couple got caught having sex in the band room when they were seniors, so they got suspended. I guess I can kinda get some of that.
 I think I've had more problems with the cops in high school than the school itself, though.
Oct 14 2011 11:52AM
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egg.
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tis sum dumby shiart righty thar
Oct 14 2011 11:56AM
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Tinga
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so there is a bridge that spans over the cafeteria in my old high school. last year a kid got suspended for 2 weeks for throwing a beach ball off the bridge during lunch time.
Oct 14 2011 11:58AM
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james6345789
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Things like this just piss everyone off. Did they really think this kid was going to stab a bunch of kids with it?
Oct 14 2011 12:19PM
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