Trigg
01-07-2011, 08:42 PM
A child in Michigan was banned from bringing a sword to school.
Actually the ban is the thing that surprises me, since we've all heard the stories of children being suspended for having butter knifes accidentally left in their lunch boxes by parents.
The other thing that just shocks me, although it shouldn't in this time of hyper political correctness, is that the principal initially allowed the child to keep the sword saying it "resembled" a weapon.
The sword doesn't "resemble" anything, it's a sword.
My son was disciplined for bringing in a toy soldier an inch tall because it was carrying a "weapon". Either the rules apply everyone or they apply to no one.
Members of a Michigan Sikh community
are upset after a student was banned from bringing a religious sword to a public school.
The saber was discovered after an unidentified Sikh student and another student were reportedly roughhousing on the playground. The principal initially allowed the child to keep the sword but the Plymouth-Canton School District later determined the religious symbol resembled a weapon and was officially banned.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/07/michigan-sikhs-want-religious-swords-school/?test=latestnews
Actually the ban is the thing that surprises me, since we've all heard the stories of children being suspended for having butter knifes accidentally left in their lunch boxes by parents.
The other thing that just shocks me, although it shouldn't in this time of hyper political correctness, is that the principal initially allowed the child to keep the sword saying it "resembled" a weapon.
The sword doesn't "resemble" anything, it's a sword.
My son was disciplined for bringing in a toy soldier an inch tall because it was carrying a "weapon". Either the rules apply everyone or they apply to no one.
Members of a Michigan Sikh community
are upset after a student was banned from bringing a religious sword to a public school.
The saber was discovered after an unidentified Sikh student and another student were reportedly roughhousing on the playground. The principal initially allowed the child to keep the sword but the Plymouth-Canton School District later determined the religious symbol resembled a weapon and was officially banned.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/07/michigan-sikhs-want-religious-swords-school/?test=latestnews