Story: Boy suspended for using broken pencil sharpener
What is more dangerous? A gun or a pencil? A gun has to be concealed. A pencil can inflict major damage to vital organs, causing blindness, severe bleeding or death. Not to mention the damage a pencil can do when in the hands of a student no afraid to write..
From the article:
"We're always going to do something to make sure the child understands the seriousness of having something that could potentially harm another student.."Top 10 Things That could potentially harm another student:
- lose leaf paper (cuts)
- email viruses
- scissors
- hard candy (choking)
- iPods (deafness, choking)
- knuckles
- a banana peel
- mats in the wrestling room
- Hanna Montana t-shirts
- senseless policy enforced mindlessly
