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Six Year Old Boy Suspended From US School For Using Knife & Fork

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  • #32
    TomCo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,529 ✭✭✭TomCo


    brendansmith wrote: »
    America needs to stand back and look at itself

    America needs to **** off and leave me alone.
    I'm sick to death hearing about America.


  • #33
    brendansmith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭brendansmith


    TomCo wrote: »
    America needs to **** off and leave me alone.
    I'm sick to death hearing about America.

    You know they fired a rocket at the moon? They can do what they want apparently..........its their moon.
    This is the same moon that affects the tides here on earth and also peoples moods etc and those fat cnuts are firing rockets at it. :mad:


  • #34
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    brendansmith wrote: »
    You know they fired a rocket at the moon? They can do what they want apparently..........its their moon.
    This is the same moon that affects the tides here on earth and also peoples moods etc and those fat cnuts are firing rockets at it. :mad:
    wow. youre one of those.

    here. come back when you have a good reason to be upset about that.

    GreeBo wrote: »
    A lot like a sharp pencil then huh?
    Indeed. But knifes and pencils? We let our kids have pencils. Rarely steak knives. As an example. I left a modeling scalpel out on my hobby desk because i used to think nothing of it. 10 year old step brother and his cousin were up there while i was out: They had tried to use it to open up the wrapper on a puzzle they bought at the store. Of course who ended up stabbing themselves with it trying to get the ****ing thing open? there was 8 perfectly good stitches gone to waste. at least he learned to quit messing with my hobby desk the little bastard.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sure, if he'd brought in a pistol, he'd have had no problems with it!


  • #36
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    brendansmith wrote: »
    You know they fired a rocket at the moon? They can do what they want apparently..........its their moon.
    This is the same moon that affects the tides here on earth and also peoples moods etc and those fat cnuts are firing rockets at it. :mad:

    Yeah but i heard the tides may or may not be concealing Weapons of mass Destruction.


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  • #37
    brendansmith
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    Overheal wrote: »
    wow. youre one of those.

    here. come back when you have a good reason to be upset about that.



    Look overhead all im saying is that no matter how much you try and cover it up we all know that ye lot are lookin for communist martians.
    Notice my post here http://http://www.google.com.au/


  • #38
    Overheal
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    Fraggles actually. Incidentally thats the first place we looked for Osama but it seems theyve all fled Fraggle Rock in the Afghan Mountains, snuck through a grocery store and somehow wound up on the moon.


  • #39
    brendansmith
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Fraggles actually. Incidentally thats the first place we looked for Osama but it seems theyve all fled Fraggle Rock in the Afghan Mountains, snuck through a grocery store and somehow wound up on the moon.


    Lets hope Switzerland holds an award ceremony for best terrorists ay? Bin Laden couldnt resist that.


  • #40
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    The case was thrown out by the school board and the regulations for children of 6 and under changed in light of this case. Progress towards a sensible compromise if ya ask me


  • #41
    Victor
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    Surely a 6 year old should have one of these http://www.ronniesunshines.com/images/Light_My_Fire_Spork.jpg and not one of these: http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/7/16/633517670702387305-sith-army-knife---dark-lords-of-the-sith-go-camping-too---motivational.jpg


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  • #42
    Mrmoe
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    He should have just stabbed them that would have taught them not to mess with him


  • #43
    netwhizkid
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    On a totally unrelated issue but in the same vain, I was on a flight once and was sitting beside a priest, when we got served the man (with rather arthritic fingers due to his age) went to open a can of 7-up but in his awkardness broke the tab to open the can.

    I spotted his predicament and offered to help open it with a biro, hang on he said and produced a multi-tool similar to the one described and opened a screwdriver in it and punched the can open with it; and then looked at me and said "Handiest thing you could carry with you" I was amazed at the priests ingenuity and also wondering how did he get it through security. We proceeded to have a good chat for the rest of the flight mainly relating to GAA, they can be real interesting people once they are taken away from the pulpit.


  • #44
    Terry
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    netwhizkid wrote: »
    On a totally unrelated issue but in the same vain, I was on a flight once and was sitting beside a priest, when we got served the man (with rather arthritic fingers due to his age) went to open a can of 7-up but in his awkardness broke the tab to open the can.

    I spotted his predicament and offered to help open it with a biro, hang on he said and produced a multi-tool similar to the one described and opened a screwdriver in it and punched the can open with it; and then looked at me and said "Handiest thing you could carry with you" I was amazed at the priests ingenuity and also wondering how did he get it through security. We proceeded to have a good chat for the rest of the flight mainly relating to GAA, they can be real interesting people once they are taken away from the pulpit.
    I want to have your surrogate babies.


  • #45
    slipss
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Unfortunately that would be enough to stab someone with if you gave it to a kid with the inclination to hurt someone. Or a prisoner in need of a shank.

    I have to agree with Overheal here. You can't have 6 year old kids bringing something into school you could stab someone with. But this doesn't go far enough. Did you ever see how sharp those pencils can be sharpened? And don't get me started on Bic's. Lethal in the wrong hands. I say non-toxic ball shaped crayons and circles of paper for all.


  • #46
    Cunny-Funt
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    davyjose wrote: »
    How about some common sense?

    eh cough, we're talking about Americans here man...


  • #47
    kowloon
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    2 stroke wrote: »
    The world has gone crazy
    I regularly brought a penknife to school (to eat apple or slice bananna into a sandwich). How many kids today eat enough fruit?

    When I was in primary school the craze was for swiss army penknives, and who had the one with the most outrageous amount of tools. There was never any trouble with the things, have people lost the art of restraint?


  • #48
    major bill
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    bleedin americans:rolleyes: didnt think they used knives and forks over there. i always thought they eat with shovels(fat cnuts)


  • #49
    Overheal
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    slipss wrote: »
    I have to agree with Overheal here. You can't have 6 year old kids bringing something into school you could stab someone with. But this doesn't go far enough. Did you ever see how sharp those pencils can be sharpened? And don't get me started on Bic's. Lethal in the wrong hands. I say non-toxic ball shaped crayons and circles of paper for all.
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62529717&postcount=34
    There was never any trouble with the things, have people lost the art of restraint?
    these days schools are afraid of lawsuits on top of everything else. theyll do anything to cover their own liability if it means suspending a kid for bringing in a pen knife.

    show me the educational value of a pen knife versus a pencil btw.


  • #50
    DominoDub
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    http://www.glogster.com/media/1/2/40/56/2405658.jpg


  • #51
    pickarooney
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    How do you sharpen your pencil? Lasers?


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  • #52
    General Zod
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    The schools policy is no knives.

    The kid brought a knife to school. Granted the punishment is excessive, but isn't that the point of "Zero Tolerance"?


  • #53
    Manic Moran
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    I thought the point of 'zero tolerance' was (a) To make it look like they're doing something, (b) to avoid any need for them to make any sort of decision or take any sort of responsibility and (c) try to avoid a lawsuit.

    Mainly (a) and (b) though.

    Still, if could be worse. At least in that case it was (gasp) a Multi-Tool. This wonderful sign about table knives in the UK is proof that the Human Race has peaked and is on its way into decline.

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/3084176591_1989e1f8dd_b.jpg

    NTM


  • #54
    Papad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Papad


    super-rush wrote: »
    I heard it on the wireless earlier and laughed. What next, expulsion for using a tissue? Zero tolerance gone a mile too far IMO.

    Link

    You don't appear to be the sharpest knife in the drawer with your dramatic thread title to draw in the rest of the sheep with their anti-Americanisms. I saw pictures of the Swiss Army knife contraption and the knife portion looked edgy and long. Maybe all 6 year olds should bring them to school.


  • #55
    Overheal
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    Manic Moran wrote: »

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/3084176591_1989e1f8dd_b.jpg

    NTM
    At face value thats laughable. But then again some of the **** I've read out of england - specially from the early teen crowd - I'm not at all surprised.


  • #56
    Super-Rush
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    Papad wrote: »
    You don't appear to be the sharpest knife in the drawer with your dramatic thread title to draw in the rest of the sheep with their anti-Americanisms. I saw pictures of the Swiss Army knife contraption and the knife portion looked edgy and long. Maybe all 6 year olds should bring them to school.

    Maybe i'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but the title of the thread was the same as the title in the link. Baaaaaaaaaaaa


  • #57
    Papad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Papad


    super-rush wrote: »
    Maybe i'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but the title of the thread was the same as the title in the link. Baaaaaaaaaaaa

    So that's what you do. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste.


  • #58
    Super-Rush
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    Papad wrote: »
    So that's what you do. Copy and paste. Copy and paste. Copy and paste.

    And?


  • #59
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    super-rush wrote: »
    Maybe i'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but the title of the thread was the same as the title in the link. Baaaaaaaaaaaa
    "Six year old boy suspended from US school for using knife & fork" = "Student who brought camping utensil to school has suspension lifted"

    By your own logic you must be a spoon.


  • #60
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    I thought the point of 'zero tolerance' was (a) To make it look like they're doing something, (b) to avoid any need for them to make any sort of decision or take any sort of responsibility and (c) try to avoid a lawsuit.

    Mainly (a) and (b) though.

    Still, if could be worse. At least in that case it was (gasp) a Multi-Tool. This wonderful sign about table knives in the UK is proof that the Human Race has peaked and is on its way into decline.

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/3084176591_1989e1f8dd_b.jpg

    NTM

    Stabbing with spoons are on the rise you know, so better to ban the sale of spoons incase zombies would use them for eating brains..... :D


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  • #61
    Super-Rush
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    Overheal wrote: »
    "Six year old boy suspended from US school for using knife & fork" = "Student who brought camping utensil to school has suspension lifted"

    By your own logic you must be a spoon.

    Hmm sharpy check the date of the original post and the date on the article.


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