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09-11-2008, 12:48 PM
HILTON HEAD ISLAND -- A 10-year-old boy here has been suspended from school for having something most students carry in their supply boxes: a pencil sharpener.

The problem was his sharpener had broken, but he decided to use it anyway.

A teacher at Hilton Head Island International Baccalaureate Elementary School noticed the boy had what appeared to be a small razor blade during class on Tuesday, according to a Beaufort County sheriff's report.

It was obvious that the blade was the metal insert commonly found in a child's small, plastic pencil sharpener, the deputy noted.

http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/521009.html

Trigg
09-11-2008, 12:53 PM
People have just lost their damn minds. The no tolerance rules are asinine, they take nothing into consideration when laying out these punishments.