6 yr. old suspended for 45 days for taking a camping tool to school

When I was in High School (Texas) 1956-1960 we brought guns to school in our PUs so we could go hunting after school. Everyone had a knife. Anyone ever played Mumbly Peg during recess at school?

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
-Sam Adams

for the folks granting the 45 day suspension.

has been granted a reprieve.Guess the school couldn't take
the heat!

Wow! I am really liking this post, The title of the post says it all really. 

http://www.camping.co.uk/

It's not what he has in his hand, it's the use he puts it to that makes it a problem. I'd suspend a kid who threatened another kid with his bare fist, and I'd leave any kid alone who was just using a pocket knife to trim a loose thread on his shirt.

Every kid in that class probably had a sharp pencil in his hand and that's a lot more dangerous than a cub scout camping utensil.

-jcr

A similar situation was the deciding factor in our choice to homeschool...

We had just started to wake up, thanks to Ron Paul of course, and I was consuming everything I could find from Charlotte Iserbyt and then John Taylor Gatto. Really, I was obsessed and shocked. I had always felt there was something wrong with our education system based on my own experiences. As my son started school I became more and more convinced of this, but being a first time parent I second guessed myself... We must have got stuck with a crappy teacher or the school he is at has so many problem children and checked-out parents that the teacher is unable to do her job correctly... Even tried changing schools.

After reading Gatto's The Underground History of Education, which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, I was so angry at myself for not trusting my instincts and subjecting my son to 3 years of indoctrination on how to be part of the collective. I started looking into the facts about homeschooling and became convinced that this was for us. My son's father on the other hand was on the fence. He agreed with much of my arguments and was very open minded and started researching for himself but just wasn't ready to make the leap.

One day we get a call saying that our son had brought a pocket knife to school and that we must come immediately to the school. He was 9 at the time. When we arrived the principle and the school officer were berating him with questions. My son vehemently stated that he had just brought it in case he needed to protect himself from a bad guy. His teacher was very upset. She said "something like this always happens every time the police come to do their safety presentations to the kids. They always seem to leave some kids terrified of all the bad things that can happen." Turns out the week before the sheriffs department had been talking to the kids and showing videos of "bad guys" trying to kidnap kids and how to protect yourself... They kept questioning him and trying to suggest that he was lying and maybe he just wanted to show off the knife to the other kids. He stuck to his story. He said in the video the police man showed him there was a little boy that was taken from his bus stop by a bad guy and that the little boy had cut himself free with a paperclip. He is no dummy and must have realized he would need more than a PAPERCLIP! He also said a strange black SUV with dark tinted windows had blocked his bus 3 times and each time the bus driver got out to see why the car was blocking the path the car speed off (this was later confirmed by the bus driver). The principle and the officer left the room and came back a few times, and it became clear that they were considering taking him to jail! They were telling us that policy states that they must call local law enforcement because of the zero tolerance policy. My baby in JUVENILE DETENTION?

Luckily, while I had been obsessed with anything to do with the education system, my husband had been obsessed with the constitution and law. As soon as he caught on to their scheme, he immediately stopped cooperating and asked the principle and the school officer "are his answers to your questions determining weather or not you are going to take him to jail?" I was so impressed at his calmness, as I was literally shaking. Later he would tell me how terrified he was about what HE would do if they actually did try to take him. Without waiting for an answer my husband then said "I think I need to use your phone please, and we will not be answering anymore of your questions." Well you should have seen the 180 they pulled! Suddenly the principle told us that wouldn't be necessary and that he had decided not to involve the police. He decided based on the circumstances that a 5 day suspension would be sufficient and were free to go home after agreeing to this. Think he smelled a law suit?

Once home we talked to our son about what had happened. We agreed that he was wrong to bring a knife to school (we are not parents that think our child is an angel that never does wrong) but taking a 9 year old child to jail for trying to feel safe is just wrong. It was at this point, or maybe during those panicked moments when my husband though he was not going to be able to stop himself from pounding on an officer, that he climbed over the fence and agreed we must homeschool.

Sorry for the long post but your post was so similar to our experience I thought my story might help...

I hope no one has scissors.

lesson that he could have gotten.

Now he knows at a very early age what he's up against.
And plus he got the benefits of 45 days of homeschooling, which allowed him to escape 45 days of indoctrination from the Public Fool System.

If his parents have half a brain, they will continue to homeschool him, or find some other way to keep the boy out of the clutches of the socialists and their larvae.

However, he will now likely spend the rest of his life paying attention to things he otherwise would not have, and may be driven to question freedom and liberty on a broader scope.

This is exactly the sort of thing that caused me to transition, at an early age, from blindly following rules for fear of consequences to actually looking at them and assessing how they infringe on peoples' rights.

Unintended consequences are good sometimes.

Is for every one who has a child to send them to school with the same type of eating utensils as little zachary used in his horrible crime. This way when they suspend all the children for these hanious crimes against mankind, we can reclaim their little minds from the indoctrination they will be taught at the hands of the bloodline.

They may actually learn something worthwhile.

He needs to deal with his punishment. After all, those are the rules. Disobeying the rules is disrespectful. What he ought to have done is lobbied for permisssion to bring his eating utensils to school. And if he wasn't successful in doing so, he needed to wait until he grew up and could run for school board so that he could change the system from within.

/end sarcasm

The system that does this is just fine, right people? The system that allows this to happen isn't the problem, right? It's just the people running that system, right? It's not like the system keeps attracting and advancing the most sociopathic people to greater positions of power, right?

There's a district school board hearing on this tonight. Make sure to sign the petition at:

http://www.helpzachary.com

This is going viral... if you keep clicking on the "Sign the Petition" button, you'll see the signature count climbing fast.

how confusing, poor kid :(

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And we were the "problem" class that drove the art teacher to nervous breakdown, yet no one gave a second thought to handing us all X-acto knives.

Still, at the same time, someone was suspended because her Tweety bird key chain's chain was too long an met some kind of weapon definition.

Anyway, I thought he as going to an actual striped uniform prison and I was ready to form some caravans to go protest because, well, a 6 yr. old, some of them still sleep in their parents' beds.

It looks like Zachary s mom would like some support at the School Board Meeting TONIGHT Oct 12 at 7:30 pm in Bear DE.

The Family has a site up as well at http://www.helpzachary.com/

Reason # 234,345,678,987 why I home school my child. I would never send him to a school that can't tell the difference between a tool and a weapon. They aren't even allowing them to to be kids anymore. The public schools start slowly controlling the day the children are enrolled in pre-k. Thanks but no thanks.

"Do not give into evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it."

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

Mom should tell the school district to piss off and keep up the homeschooling.