Rick Root wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Ian Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Now I know we are talking about a pocket/swiss army knife situation. >> > > No, we are not. We are talking about a camping utensil. > > "Zachary Christie, 6, had faced 45 days in an alternative school for > troublemakers after he took the utensil - a combination folding knife, > fork and spoon - to school to eat lunch last month." > > rick
And that is part of the problem here, what the hell are we actually talking about here. I took it on face value that the earlier post was a picture of the actual student displaying what he took to school. That could qualify as a 'utensil - a combination folding knife, for and spoon' at that device did have all three and it surely folded. But it is by know means the only type of camping utensil that would qualify under that description. None the less, I don't think the actual, exact tool matter much in that the response was overblown for the situation. There is a lot of space between the laissez-faire, 'boys will be boys' attitude that lets too much slide and the 'zero-tolerance' = 'maximum punishment' for all offensives. The point I, and many others - including you Rick I think, are trying to make is that you can have zero-tolerance with balanced responses to each offense. A kid shows up with a fully loaded Uzzi probably warrents a more serious response. A kid shows up with knife for lunch confiscate it and tell the child AND his parents to not let it happen again. And there is plenty of range in between. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:305648 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
