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Title: Girl suspended from school for cutting peach with child butter knife
Source:
WTAJ-TV, Altoona
URL Source: http://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/ ... -peach-with-child-butter-knife
Published: Nov 18, 2016
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2016-11-23 05:33:05 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 50398
Comments: 74
A South Florida couple is outraged after they said their daughter was suspended from her middle school for using a child butter knife at lunchtime to cut a peach, Local10.com reported. "There's no one there trying to educate and to be reasonable to say, 'Let's work this out,'" the girl's father, Ronald Souto, said. Souto's daughter is an honor roll student at Silver Trail Middle School in Pembroke Pines. "She's always trying to help someone. She's always trying to share things," Souto said about his daughter. Ronald and Andrea Souto told Local 10 News reporter Michael Seiden that their 11-year-old daughter was suspended for six days for bringing the knife to school. "This is a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers -- one year old," Andrea Souto said. "It is made for children to learn how to eat properly. She's used it since she was baby." According to the school district, the girl violated the county's weapon policy when she used her butter knife in the cafeteria to cut the peach. "The friend asked for half of the peach and she cuts half of the peach and gives to her friend. She goes to the bathroom and comes back and the guy said, 'Follow me,'" Ronald Souto said. Ronald said he hopes what happened to his daughter will bring change to the district, specifically new polices when it comes to weapons. He's not alone. "I think the principal should revisit this and everyone (should) sit down to the table, and let's just say, 'Don't do it again.' This is outrageous to go to that extreme," Melvin J. Smith, whose grandson attends the school, said. The Soutos said they were shocked about the suspension and are now concerned that their daughter's act of kindness could lead to criminal charges. "She's afraid now of the educators. She's afraid of people at school. They need to change the system," Ronald Souto said. A Broward County school district spokeswoman declined to offer specifics about the incident because of "student privacy," but said, "The school followed district policy regarding this incident and continues to work with the student and parents involved. It is the district's priority to maintain safe and secure campuses for students and staff at all times." The Pembroke Pines Police Department said it has turned over their investigation to the State Attorney's Office. It's unclear whether prosecutors will file charges, but the family's attorney said the school board isn't doing its job in this case. "The school board has abused its discretion to act in this case," Larry Meltzer said. "It is tragic that a school that this little girl loves sees fit to prosecute and suspend her -- the epitome of a model and honor roll student -- for using a child-proof utensil that could never be construed in any form as a weapon in order to share part of her lunch with a fellow classmate. "This item at all times was used in the school's lunch room as it should be -- to cut a peach and share lunch with a friend," he added. "She should be applauded for her generosity, kindness and for her motivation to be a great student in all senses of that word. "The only harm that has been exacted in this case is by Silver Trail Middle School and the Broward County School Board upon one of its finest students and upon one who exemplifies the type of person and student it wishes to help create. It is truly senseless and does reflects poorly upon the type of educators and law enforcement involved in this case." Police turn investigation over to Florida State Attorney's Office
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#2. To: Deckard (#0)
What the girl’s mother said to the media after the incident:
Attaboy! Once again Gatlin cheers the State for labeling an innocent child a criminal. You are a real establishment tool.
Where was the school board not doing its job in this case? Nah! It’s the girl’s parents who are not doing their job in this case.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you are clinically insane if you think what this girl did was a crime.
I never said it was a crime. I do say that her parnets had the rule book and they had agreed to follow the rules. The rules stated that if she brings a knife to school, ANY KNIFE, then she will be suspended. She brought a knife to school....she was suspended. Case closed ... Move along now ... I am ...
So.... You apparently think that: 1) The zero tolerance rule is a good rule; 2) The punishment dispense and proper and beneficial to society, and for the greater good. Which shows you are a very useful lemming without any ability to think critically.
FYI: I don’t “apparently” think that … Instead of always telling me what I “apparently” think….you could ask: But, nevermind….you said that you don’t ask direct questions. So, I shall move n … I continue to notice that you libertarians never ask a question to find out something, you too quickly “assume” that you already know the answer….and therefore automatically move to do an assumptive close on a person’s thought so you can tell them what they should and must think. You weirdos never live in the real world, you can only survive in life through “abstractism” existing only in thought or idea but not having concrete realities and actual instances. God help you …
Since it's all you've decided to offer on the topic, it's all we have to go by. If you felt your opinion of the zero tolerance rule might be sufficiently enlightening to the discussion, it's reasonable for us to think you'd post it without solicitation. As is, you instead post support for the school action and also condemnation of the parents and/or child, so the reasonable inference is that you consider that statement most significant contribution you could make. For whatever reason, you apparently don't consider your opinion on the zero tolerance rule worth posting. That's fine with me, but I'm free to post whatever inference I receive as a result. I'm actually telling everyone else what you apparently think. If it was just you and me on this forum, I'd say nothing. If I owned the site, I'd ban you for being a complete waste of hot air. Have a nice day.
Do you think anyone is listening to you or they care…besides buckaroo and Deckard, of course? Typical Paultard libertarian asshole goal….if you can’t control something, then destroy it. But then, of course, I am not a libertarian, so I really don’t know how a bad day feels….perhaps you can tell me sometime.
You are right that it's probably few, but I'm confident more appreciate me than do you. It is possible bozoing you is the best thing to do. My time is too valuable to spend responding to your hot air talking points, along with your childish "tard" name calling. And it seems your even older than I am too.
DO NOT BOZO TATER! You will miss the YUKS on a daily basis.
DO NOT BOZO TATER! You will miss the YUKS on a daily basis. No, after some more thought, I think it's the thing to do. At least for a while. This is a throwing pearls before swine type thing. I have better things, productive things that I can do with my time, and having a stupid conversation, if it even qualifies as that, with Gatlin is not what I should be doing. Maybe he's got time to waste, but I don't. It's apparent to me that Gatlin purposely responds to articles and others with the intent to inflame, not to offer any kind of constructive viewpoint. This has been demonstrated to my satisfaction on this thread where inferring his position on an article based on his early posts earned me an accusation of improper condemnation because he never explicitly expressed the opinion that I and everyone else inferred. Presumably it's somewhat different, but in spite of advocating he has been misrepresented, he nonetheless refused to voluntarily express that opinion without an engraved invitation because I guess he thinks he's special, or more likely, because he's wants to be an asshole. Which is fine if that's the case. To each his own. But I don't want to reward it. It's much like feeding wildlife in a wilderness park. It's bad for them and you. As I said, I would ban Gatlin if this were my site. Site owners should certainly exercise the ban power cautiously when it comes to people they differ with politically. Having opposing viewpoints is valuable for any forum and personal bias can a proper decision hard. But that's not my burden. So... to bozo Gatlin goes.
I'm doing the same right after I post this.
If I bozo someone, it isn't about that someone. It's about me and who I want to spend my time conversing with. Simple as that. I want to converse with people I respect. Life is better that way.
You are a weak libtard. People like you need safe spaces. Your weakness makes me wanna puke.
You and Gatlin have a fetish about calling people "tards". As I've made clear before, it's quite childish to resort to such name calling time and time again. The power to make someone puke would actually be a strength of one sort or another, not a weakness. But puke away, if you want.
I guess he doesn’t like that we call them as we see them….TRUTHFULLY. Calling them the Paultard assholes that they are….raises their hackles.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest "This is a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers -- one year old," [….] "It is made for children to learn how to eat properly.”
What the girls’s mother should have said to the girl before the incident: This is a Silver Trail Middle School Rules Book for school children – all ages. [….] "It is made for children to learn how to follow school rules properly….you read the rules and follow them.”
#3. To: Gatlin (#2)
#6. To: Deckard (#3)
It's unclear whether prosecutors will file charges, but the family's attorney said the school board isn't doing its job in this case.
The school board had a rule against bringing a knife to school, bring ANY KNIFE to school. The rule did not say the only knife a student can bring to school is a butter knife. The school board was enforcing the rule the parents AGREED to. …the school board isn't doing its job in this case.
#8. To: Gatlin (#6)
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
#10. To: Gatlin (#9)
#15. To: Pinguinite (#10)
So.... You apparently think that:
There you go again, using the “apparently” word.
1) The zero tolerance rule is a good rule;
2) The punishment dispense and proper and beneficial to society, and for the greater good. Do YOU think that:
1) The zero tolerance rule is a good rule?
#17. To: Gatlin (#15)
There you go again, using the “apparently” word.
Instead of always telling me what I “apparently” think….
#19. To: Pinguinite (#17)
I'm actually telling everyone else what you apparently think.
If I owned the site, I'd ban you for being a complete waste of hot air.
Have a nice day.
Thank you, I always do….I have never had a bad one yet.
#21. To: Gatlin (#19)
Do you think anyone is listening to you or they care…besides buckaroo and Deckard, of course?
#22. To: Pinguinite, tater (#21)
It is possible bozoing you is the best thing to do.
#31. To: buckeroo, A K A Stone, Gatlin (#22)
#41. To: Pinguinite (#31)
So... to bozo Gatlin goes.
#44. To: Fred Mertz (#41)
I'm doing the same right after I post this.
#50. To: Pinguinite (#44)
#51. To: GrandIsland (#50)
You are a weak libtard.
Your weakness makes me wanna puke.
#53. To: GrandIsland (#51)
You and Gatlin have a fetish about calling people "tards".
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