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I have mixed feelings about this kind of thing. Often times it is the kid who really has honest intentions who gets shafted by these "strict liability" type of rules. But still, what he brought to school was a knife. And I fail to see how his 14th Amendment due process rights were violated. It was a school policy. He violated it. So what if he is six? They knew that 6 yr olds would be included in the group affected by the policy.
A student at the high school where I taught was suspended for 365 days. He had gone hunting over the weekend. That Sunday he was going to the school for a Relay for Life event. He forgot to take his hunting rifle out of the back of his truck. He realized it not long after he got there when one of his friends told him. Before he could get back to the truck to go home, he was in handcuffs. His family appealed but to no avail. He was an honor student and one of the nicest students in the school. Granted the situation is slightly different, but it goes to show that these schools really are drawing a hard line about this kind of thing.
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