Damn school policy gone fooking nuts

[Dizaster]

There is no such thing as "Case by case" basis in this world is there.. Or someone using some discretion.. Or f'k that, common sense!!!!!

The kid is 6!!! He hasn't behaved bad,, he didn't pull his knife out to threaten anyone, he didn't cut anyone, he hasn't shown dangerous behaviour.. He brought a swiss army knife type thing to school that is probably his dads or something which he's real proud of and wanted to show other kids....

It woudl have worked JUST AS WELL to sit the kid down and explain, knives are dangerous and can cause harm to people, and they are not allowed at school.. Send a letter home to parents letting them know he'd brought it to school, that's it..

That is common sense...

For the intelligence and brain power that most human beings have for calculating things.. When it gets put into a collective organisation with rules and enforcements and all that sort of crap, it somehow deducts the billions and billions of collective braincells down to about 10.....

The sad part is there is a story like this every day.. A story in every school, every workplace, everywhere where there is some knob with no common sense getting paid to much for shuffling paper, making decisions and ruling on things that he has no idea about and spent about 1 calorie of mental energy working out...



It's the level of thinking in these cases that makes me wonder how human beings will ever survive.... The answer most likely is we won't...

[Nameless]

Seriously, they should have just confiscated his combo for a day or two to remind him how he can't do it, lend it back after school with a strong warning that next time there will be suspension and that is it, it's not like if he did bring a Rambo knife with him or anything, just a swiss combo, I think it's easier to hurt somebody with a metal lunch box than with such knifes.

[El Kabong]

The SIMPLE explination of this is that School Officials/Administrators want policies that they don't want to have to make a judgement call on. The less you have to think about whether or not to punish someone then the easier it is for them. Also from a risk standpoint if you let this slide (in their minds) perhaps he brings the knife back to school and stabs everyone.

Either way all that was needed was someone to just have the balls to make a decision by themself instead of going by the book and being a damned bureaucrat.