The "rules are rules" crowd strikes again. If a rule is stupid, it should not be enforced. That is why we have people running schools, and not machines.
That said, we don't know much about the safety of this district and perhaps such a policy is necessary. If it's going to be enforced, at the very least all kids should be made explicitly aware of the fact that they can't bring anything like this to school before suspending someone for bringing a fork.
#67 | Posted by JOE
I take it you have never spent any time in an elementary or secondary school, other than when you were (presumably) a student.
I am quite sure that the school policies and consequences for violating these policies were provided to the parents prior to the beginning of the school year.
In this case, the blame should be placed on the parents. They should have known and ensured that their kid was not bringing to school anything that would warrant this reaction.
Is this rule "stupid" and thus can be summarily ignored? No.
Should there be some sort of grey zone for making differing calls? That is the difficult question it is.
When a school is having to deal with hundreds to literally thousands of kids daily in a single school, how grey can you go?
As I stated above, all it takes is a single incident, then the parents can turn into ravaging hyenas demanding why the school didn't do this and didn't do that.
In the wake of so many school shootings, I cannot blame the schools for the zero tolerance stance they have implemented. Yep, yep, it seems incredibly arbitrary and silly and non-judgmental and lacking in making reasonable decisions based on individual cases.
But I repeat, all it takes is one incident.
