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Six-year-old Suspended for Bringing Cub Scout Tool to School

Young Boy-Tent By Selwyn Duke

Our authorities may not be able to track down Osama bin laden, but
never fear, they’re keeping us safe from budding little terrorists such
as first grader Zachary Christie. Caught red-handed, the Newark,
Delaware, six-year-old was suspended from his school and may face 45
days in reform school for violating the Christina School District’s
“zero tolerance” policy on weapons. His offense?

Bringing a camping utensil set to school.

The “weapon” in question is a “hobo tool” the first grader had
received after recently joining the Cub Scouts; it contains a fork,
spoon, and knife. Zachary was so excited about his new acquisition — as
any normal boy would be — that he brought it to school to use during
lunch period. School officials then suspended him, saying they have no
choice because the district’s code of conduct prohibits the possession
of knives “regardless of the possessor’s intent.”

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9 responses to “Six-year-old Suspended for Bringing Cub Scout Tool to School”

  1. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    “Echoing the Christina School District’s rules, the prosecutor said that, under the drug law, intent doesn’t matter.
    Alexander also used the old cliché “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Yet what excuse does the law have for being ignorant of morality? Ignorance of the law is unavoidable when laws become so legion and labyrinthine that only a cross between Perry Mason and Rain Man could know them all. ”
    This is something that libertarians, progressives and conservatives all agree on. The law has become a run away beast that just lives to feed itself.

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  2. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Selwyn, I love this quote from your article and I assume it is original.
    “Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, common sense is worth a thousand laws. Unfortunately, today we have too many laws and too little common sense.”
    The problem with our world is not knives, guns, fists or clubs it is our culture/mulitculture. When I was in high school, I and many others actually brought shot guns to school often (to go hunting after school. It was nothing to see a couple of students on lunch hour, in the parking lot admiring a new shotgun; that was only 22 years ago.
    The fist is the most common assault weapon on the campus. Usually the fist of the bigger kids. Next thing you know all kids but the smallest will be forced to wear restraining devices as an attempt to disarm the potentially harmful based upon ability to do harm rather than intent.

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  3. Lisa Avatar
    Lisa

    I am very glad they lifted the suspension on the kid, they need to make exceptions.

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  4. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Yoyo…finally something we agree on. However, this is the thesis for which I build most of my political views; government is too big. Government’s sole purpose is to make laws most of which lend themselves to injustice if applied with a blindfold. This is also why I believe in a predefined system of morality which had been the Christian belief system until the social engineers got involved. John Adams said,
    “W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
    In absence of morality there can not be enough laws to ensure justice; to the contrary.
    You said, “Alexander also used the old cliché “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
    I wonder if Alexander meant 6 year olds?

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  5. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    I remember there was a case in the states last year of a young woman (14 I think) who was strip searched at school becasue they thought she might have given another girl a panadol. Stupid stupid stuff.

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  6. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    If leftists in America were not such indolent and loud-mouthed crybabies, we could easily do without such excessive and punitive legislation.
    Ergo, the U.S. Constitution was based as an expansion of the Magna Carta (both brilliant docmuents, as good as mortal man can achieve). The Magna Carta was based on the Biblical 10 Commandments and rightly so. How can one not view them as a recipe for civil society?
    But I wish to “up the ante” by stating that, ideally, only the first two commendments are necessary: that is, love God; love your neighbor. If one were to adhere to these both, all other laws are superfluous. A redundancy. Call it a blissful anarchy. Anyone care to argue?

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  7. yoyo Avatar
    yoyo

    wel phil, I’m happy to love my neighbour but I’m not really fond of any gods, even the spaghetti monster. So how about we reduce your list to 1 love your neighbour?

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  8. dan Avatar
    dan

    Nope.

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  9. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    Dearest Yoyo,
    “Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
    Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Matt. 23:36-37).
    Let me ask you, if this is the great commandment, is not its violation the great sin?
    As for loving thy neighbor, as you so say, “lovest thou me?”

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