Stop the world. It's just too stupid!

[The Korean]

baseball and softball bats are used more as weapons than knives. there goes the sports program.

[BunkyX]

It's just another sign of what this country is coming to. Anybody that listens to the news can hear it coming, I don't claim to be a conspiracy theorist but...
I carry a knife with me all of the time, most of the people I know carry one too. I have heard more than once "got your knife on you?" answered with the reply, "Got my pants on don't I?" To a dying breed of us a knife is a tool, nothing more. Yet to our changing society of Timid Sheep, a knife is considered a weapon, period. Did I mention we are becoming a society of Timid Sheep afaid of our own shadows?
The fact that the young lady was mature enough to use the knife properly to eat with says alot more than the bunch of adults that went into a panic over it. To me it;s just another case of paranoid stupidity, and yes it could have been handled a lot more discretely.

[spiffykyle]

I keep my knife in my pocket all the time as well, and I probably use it for uses other than cutting just as much as I use the blade. Most tools can be turned into a weapon if so desired.

Today's society demands accountability and no one is willing to take it on for fear of repercussion. This is definitely one of those situations where an administrator could have taken the knife away, called the parents, and the problem is solved. However school district regulations demand the extreme action taken to absolve themselves from all accountability, the ever present "its out of my hands" defense. I agree the parents are somewhat to blame, however the girl could have just got the knife without them knowing. She probably wasn't trying to sneak it in either, just getting something to eat her lunch with. I doubt she thought any more about it other than "Hmmmm, I need something to cut my steak with. I used this last night so I know it works."

Gross overreaction makes me sick to my stomach, especially when its thrust onto a child like this.

<deep breath>

OK, I'm good now.

spiffy