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OCALA - A 10-year-old girl is facing a felony weapons charge after she brought a kitchen knife to school with her steak lunch, the child's uncle said today.
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This has got to stop.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-bk-kitchenknife121507,0,7777198.story?coll=orl_tab01_layout
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http://www.local6.com/news/14857286/detail.html

Can't even eat in peace anymore.

are we talking about knife as in:


or


cause if it's the former, the school admins are the ones who should be arrested.

Even if you are talking about the latter (real steak knife) the girl should not have been arrested. Maybe the knife should have been taken away and given to her parents and she should be informed that the school policy is not to allow such knives. In any either case I think it is ridiculous to disallow knives in school with the threat of a felony arrest.

Ya it is another case of the Government protecting us from ourselves.

Dave

In some states, CA for example, it is legally impossible for a child under the age of 14 to commit a crime, unless it can be proved that the child knew right from wrong. But, given the world we live in today, if I were to send my kid to school with a steak, it would be cut into bite sized pieces at home. EVERYONE knows that you can not take knives of any kind to school anymore...

And to think I had a Swiss Army Knife in my pocket every day at school as my keychain and never got hassled about it. (High school class of ‘97 for those of you who are wondering when it was.)

I think it's all hype. They won;t do anything to a young kid for bringing a knife to cut her food with....not anything criminal anyway. Unless, of course, her lunchbox was empty and she tried to hack on somebody. There's always a writer out there who knows how to get us excited......

You are probably right, as far as the law is concerned. Bet she still get suspended tho. Mom and dad should have known better...

Local news this morning was showing a cheap fine serrated steak knife, i don't know it was "the" knife or just one they are using for show on the news. The arresting officer was interviewed and he stated that the kid was not handcuffed but was taken to a juvenile center for evaluation to determine in the child had the intent to bring a knife to school to harm someone or whether she just brought the knife for slicing and dicing lunch. The school officials declined interviews but stated that the kid would have to be expelled. And the reporter added that the kid would most likely be charged with bringing a knife to school.

The rules around here seem to be different for each county, the county i live in changed the zero tolerance policy after a high school honor student with a spotless background was caught with a knife and expelled. He had stayed up all night with a sick horse on the family ranch and forgot that he had a pocket knife in his pocket. After the story hit the news, the public outcry was enough so that the school board now uses a case by case basis to determine if the kid needs to be expelled.