Family: Teen Suspended After Trying To Do The Right Thing

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Star Member The Straight Story (44,997 posts)

Family: Teen Suspended After Trying To Do The Right Thing

FOX CHAPEL (KDKA) – A high school student says he is being punished for trying to do the right thing.

He told school officials when he realized he brought his pocketknife to a football game.

But he was suspended anyway.

“I dropped him off right at the corner there by the stop sign,” said David Schaffner, father to the 16-year-old who was suspended.

Schaffner is a proud father, but now also an angry one. He dropped off his son at Fox Chapel Friday night for a football game.

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“He was cutting branches and what not with it,” Schaffner said. “Just forgot he had it in his pocket.”

There is no metal detector, no bag check there, but Schaffner grabbed a security guard.

“Intentionally, willfully handed the pocket knife,” he said.

He even voluntarily wrote out and signed a statement, saying:

“I was in the woods behind my house at my tree stand and forgot to take my knife out of my pocket … came to the game and gave it to the security guard.”

With that, the Fox Chapel principal kicked him out of the game and then early Monday morning kicked him out of school for 10 days.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/09/16/suspension-questioned-after-teen-unintentionally-takes-knife-to-football-game/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023690962

sharp_stick (9,597 posts)
1. I love zero tolerance school districts.

it makes the schools like such intelligent open places that kids really want to attend.

I'm so glad I'm not an administrator at one of these places, no matter what they do they come out of it looking like idiots.

I'm guessing that was sarcasm, none of the DUmmies will realize that this is what leftists have done.

Star Member Scootaloo (7,792 posts)
4. These policies assume children are criminals

Which in turn prepares them for a society that seens teenagers as monsters, and then a police force that sees all other human beings as "the enemy"

Collapse starts at the bottom.

That is your attitude towards guns. You asswipes assume that anyone with a gun is just one bad day away from being a mass murderer. So you want to treat gun owners as potential criminals and ban their guns.

nadinbrzezinski (126,118 posts)
5. Congrats, you just taught the kid

Honesty is not a good thing. That's a hell of a life lesson.

For leftists honesty is never a good thing.

liberal_at_heart (5,827 posts)
18. I sent my kid to school with cough drops today. I'm probably taking a chance on him getting

suspended over it, but I don't care. I've already had it with the schools around here.
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Response to liberal_at_heart (Reply #18)Thu Sep 19, 2013, 12:42 AM
aroach (166 posts)
19. Happened to me

I put cough drops in my daughter's bag and she got suspended over them. Active ingredient = fruit pectin. Not even a drug but a food product.

This is what happens when you allow leftists to run things.

[Skul]

I wonder if it's appropriate to say.....
 

[JohnnyReb]

This is what happens when you allow leftists to run things.

You know, if leftist had been running things when I went to school back in the 50's/60's, I would probably be getting out of prison right about now.

Knife in pocket....at least one.
Large knife in car.....probably.
Long gun...... in car trunk.
Pistol......sometimes under seat.....in cowboy type holster.
Axe, hatchet, wrecking bar, screwdrivers, hammer, punches, ....hell, all manner of dangerous tools most of the time.

Add all that up and present it to a leftist administrator = about 50 years.