I understand what you are saying, but, given the violence that is happening in our schools today, weapons (other than the baseball bats that I assume are still used in PE. Do they still have PE?), have got to be banned. Why to most schools, at least in CA, have police officers stationed there EVERY day? Because of bad things happening to our kids. So this girl only planned on cutting up her lunch. You can not have a rule that says knives are OK for cutting up lunch, but not OK for cutting up classmates. Rules are rules, you do the crime, you do the time. She, and her parents, should have known better...

Totally true, but California is its own nation anyway...They wanted to outlaw spanking....

Dave

"...California is its own nation anyway..."

Which is why we are currently in Arizona. Yeah Sheriff Joe!!!

Every pair of jeans I wore to school in the late 70's/early 80's had the imprint of a Swiss Army Knife in the left rear pocket, I EDC'ed it everyday/everywhere (even had it it my suit pocket when I got married in 1988). It was for cutting stuff, hunting, fishing and opening stubby bottled beers before twist tops.

These are much different times and now that I have kids in school I guess I agree with the strict school weapons policy: it just needs to be applied with some common sence.

Mike

Yea, it isn;t like the girl didn;t violate aschool policy, unintentionally or otherwise. It doesn;t mean that maybe the parents don;t need to come down for a chat. This is good stuff.

But do we entrust our children to adults who panick and call Fox news and CSI crime scene investigators before they even know if it's plastic or steel?

I'm the parent they called down because my little girl had a knife at school. I'm hearing them and so will my daughter. But if these clowns called me, I'd be yawning while listening to them and cleaning my fingernails with a fixed blade!

A ten year old girl. Probably had a lunchbox with a princess on it or something. And a lunch knife inside.

Let's have a group panic hug.........

"You can not have a rule that says knives are OK for cutting up lunch, but not OK for cutting up classmates."

Yeah, INTENT went down the toilet with a lot of other thingsn didn't it? Today in America, there is ONLY the letter of the law, no intent, no reason, no common sense.

We have the idiot country that we da*n well deserve.

Sueic

Uh Sue?..... in order to more fully understand your emotion on this issue, would that "*" take the place of an "r" or an "m"?

Your choice.

Sue

Unfortunatly, it's not only your country. Believe me it can be worse.

It's like we don't trust laws and their punishments anymore, so anything that could be used in a crime is now outlawed no matter what it is. I can't wait until they can read thoughts and intents. They better build larger prisons... Man this incident gets me worked up....

Dave