Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Bears Riding Bicycles

Yet another example of stupid teachers traumatizing a child.
School officials say the 5th grader was brown-bagging it. She brought a piece of steak for her lunch, but she also brought a steak knife. That's when deputies were called. It happened in the cafeteria at Sunrise Elementary School. The 10-year-old used the knife to cut the meat. "She did not use it inappropriately. She did not threaten anyone with it. She didn't pull it out and brandish it. Nothing of that nature," explained Marion County School Spokesman Kevin Christian. But a couple of teachers took the utensil and called the sheriff. When deputies arrived, they were unable to get the child's parents on the phone, so they arrested her and took her to the county's juvenile assessment center... The student now faces a felony charge for the possession of a weapon on school property and the principal suspended her for ten days. The parents of the girl could not be reached for comment.The sheriff's office has turned the case over to the State Attorney's Office.
This girl's life could be ruined. She could get a criminal record that could affect future scholarship, job applications, etc. All because some stupid teachers didn't have the common sense to deal with a situation themselves instead of robotically following policy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I was gonna bet that it was somewhere in California, but I see it was the other state which suffers from tropical weather delirium.

By the by, do me a favor and change my blog's name to "Life Happens." I'm going into hiding as FF. ;)