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**Mal H** · November 22, 1999, 01:34 PM

I guess I don't see the problem. We have such a huge number of honest honor students with todays educational system, what's wrong with stigmatizing one of them and making her a criminal and an example for others, even if only temporarily. After all she did have a knife within 2 or 3 hundreds yards of her person. Even though she may need the knife to cut a fellow students seat belt to free them from a flaming car, having it on school grounds is a sin and just cannot be tolerated. It's a good thing she doesn't knit, she may have gotten several more days suspension.

November 22, 1999, 01:34 PM	#5
Mal H Staff Join Date: March 20, 1999 Location: Somewhere in the woods of Northern Virginia Posts: 16,959	I guess I don't see the problem. We have such a huge number of honest honor students with todays educational system, what's wrong with stigmatizing one of them and making her a criminal and an example for others, even if only temporarily. After all she did have a knife within 2 or 3 hundreds yards of her person. Even though she may need the knife to cut a fellow students seat belt to free them from a flaming car, having it on school grounds is a sin and just cannot be tolerated. It's a good thing she doesn't knit, she may have gotten several more days suspension.