Giving a six-year-old a clasp knife is pretty stupid to begin with, even when it also contains a fork and a spoon. But suspending him from school (and making him do 45 days in the district’s reform school as a further punishment) because he brought it to the cafeteria to show off and eat with is, well, about what you can expect these days from the Nanny State and its public school minions. They’re experts in making Everests out of ant hills. No wonder school vouchers are so popular.
Via Instapundit. And Best of The Web Today, which notes that the 45 days is "more time than Roman Polanski initially spent in captivity for raping a 13-year-old girl.
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It’s always simpler for a bureaucrat to follow the letter of a regulation than do his/her own thinking.
Yep, the old CYA syndrome. Known and loved by paper-pushers everywhere.
I’m gonna disagree that it’s stupid to give a 6yo that implement. It is stupid not to teach him how to use it. It is stupid not to encourage its use. Cuz they’re gonna mess with them anyway.
I’m gonna disagree that it’s stupid to give a 6yo that implement. It is stupid not to teach him how to use it. It is stupid not to encourage its use. Cuz they’re gonna mess with them anyway.
You’re always welcome to your opinion around here, Scott.
I never got a knife or instruction on its use until I was in Boy Scouts, around age 11. And I don’t remember ever messing with one before that.
Nowadays the Cub Scouts teach eight-year-olds to whittle bars of soap, which I think is too early. But it’s two years older than this kid.
You’re always welcome to your opinion around here, Scott.
I never got a knife or instruction on its use until I was in Boy Scouts, around age 11. And I don’t remember ever messing with one before that.
Nowadays the Cub Scouts teach eight-year-olds to whittle bars of soap, which I think is too early. But it’s two years older than this kid.
I’ll just say that I got a knife when I joined the Cub Scouts, at the age of 6 — two-bladed standard jackknife with a lanyard loop and a Cub logo on the side. Nobody died, or was even cut, during my Cub stint. We knew them for the tools they are.
I have no recollection of the first knife, though. They were standard implements in the tool box, tackle box, glove compartment, dresser drawer, etc.
I’ll just say that I got a knife when I joined the Cub Scouts, at the age of 6 — two-bladed standard jackknife with a lanyard loop and a Cub logo on the side. Nobody died, or was even cut, during my Cub stint. We knew them for the tools they are.
I have no recollection of the first knife, though. They were standard implements in the tool box, tackle box, glove compartment, dresser drawer, etc.
You are obviously a credit to the race.
You are obviously a credit to the race.
That’s extremely debatable.
That’s extremely debatable.