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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
You know folks...I am just an average Joe here, legal jargon aside...but back to what ForeverRoses and I were alluding to earlier...whatever happened to simply calling the parents to the school and having a private discussion with the admin and said parents and K.I.M?
Have we become that paranoid a society that we have to get the law involved for everything?
Times like this (not to mention the fact the we need crash helmets for kids with Big Wheels) is why I DON'T want kids.
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What should happen (in my view):
Teacher sees kid with knife. Teacher asks him about it. He tells her he just joined Cub Scouts and it's his new knife from his mess kit. Teacher says, "I know you're excited and I'm glad for you, but you know it's against the rules to bring a knife to school. I'm going to need to take it for now; it will be in the office. Your parents can pick it up there. Please remember not to bring knives to school again. Thanks." (Can't give it back to him in case he rides a bus or something.) When the parents pick it up, they are reminded, nicely, that son can't be bringing knives to school. Done.
But thanks to a variety of occurences, many school boards have decided that, for the kids' safety and because of liability concerns, they have to demonstrate ZERO TOLERANCE. The something comes along to show how ZERO TOLERANCE is an over-reaction, and how one size doesn't fit all, and we hope some common sense creeps in.
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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
Did you actually SEE what he took to school? it was more than a piece of "cutlery." What's goofy is a bunch of folks acting like a knife is acceptable at school.
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I haven't seen anyone acting like a knife is acceptable at school. People have been saying that there are better ways to handle a situation like this.
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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Something to think about.... the waning popularity of the scouting movement among parents, school systems, and communities?
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I don't really think so. That's not at all a universal phenomenon. It's waning in some places but not in others, and even where school systems are not supportive, per se, they're not necessarily antagonistic -- they just don't let recruiting or meetings happen on school property. (Or they let it happen on school property as long as it's the PTA and not the school itself in charge.) Many school systems are quite supportive of Scouting. (And in my experience, at least, most teachers are.) Some systems that aren't as supportive aren't because of the things that gather media support, while others have reached the decision that even though they'd have no problem letting the Scouts (Boy and Girl) in, they can't because then they might not be able to say "no" to a group they don't like.
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