On competitive indignation, the decline of the New York Times, and the hazards of modern schooling:
Da’von Shaw, a Bedford, Ohio high school student, brought apples and craisins to school for a “healthy eating” presentation he was giving to his speech class. He took out a knife to slice an apple, and I’m sure you can all guess what happened next.
In a sane society, the school administrators would be laughed at and mocked. The school board would suspend the teacher, principal and all involved for this idiocy.
We do not live in a sane society. Their actions are applauded, and too damned many of the over-protective mothers agree that this kids should be punished for a paring knife, or even a drawing of a gun.
Conditioned neurosis – you see it now don’t you.
They don’t turn out good citizens, they create Eloi for state predation.
Any parent that would subject a child to this morbid of state bullying deserves to have this thug as a “co-parent”.
On a wider public scale the roll of state indoctrinator is taken on by the MSM and its army of culture warriors – each furtively re-enforcing our reflexive servility to state psychopathy.
Let this be a lesson to you all. Next time use a kirpan.
the level of stupid continues to expand exponentially.
My sister expected her K-8 boys to carry a pocket knife in her school. She would call on them to open packaging, slice fruit, etc. Never was a knife considered to be a weapon. Because that’s how it was when we were kids.
I wonder if they remove the points from geometry compasses and treat them like ammunition, separated in metal container under lock and key.
I ate some craisins with my school lunch,
it really freaked me out,
had to puke,
and was sent to Mrs.Lamar’s orifice.
Can’t stab or slash with one of these.
http://www.toquedechef.com/2666-thickbox_default/apple-corer-and-slicer.jpg
The SWAT team didn’t roll up in an MRAP, therefore they did not over react. Let me guess, the school cafeteria has plastic cutlery? Zero tolerance means zero common sense.
Half the boys and one or two girls in my grade 8 class had a pocketknife and not one eyebrow was ever raised. It’s a tool, pure and simple.
Kids in my dad’s school would bring rifles for show and tell. He was born in the 50s.
I’m sure that will stem the tide of healthy eating- something pants-wetters everywhere can get behind.
Back in the day, my Brownie pack used to combine the Nutrition badge with the Hospitality badge. Which meant the Grade 3’s were responsible for preparing the snack. A friend from the community supervised and tested. And, yes, they used sharp knives to produce the veggies and fruit to be handed around to the parents. No problems with that from anyone.
I do recall my Dad telling me that at country school, they learned how to butcher chickens, plant a garden and poison gophers.
In grade 5, my teacher’s brother had a farm about three miles from town. We all got in the back of a 1952 Ford F-6 (3 ton) and went to a picnic along the river. After we ate, the farmer’s son came out to our picnic with a Ford 8N tractor, and we all got a ride along the banks of the river. We sat in front of him and he let us steer. We later made a fire and roasted wieners.
That was 1959. When I was in the boy scouts, the same farmer took us to a camp about 7 miles north of town for an afternoon picnic. Our scoutmaster let us shoot his Cooey .22 single shot. God bless the 50’s.